The stage win also nets him an overrall victory of the Abu Dhabi Tour. The pair had dropped their rivals inside the final kilometres.
Overnight leader Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) cracked on the climb and conceded 1:42 to Valverde. Valverde took the overall race from Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) with Lopez rounding out the podium in third. Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) wins sprint classification jersey.
How it Happend
The day’s early break of Lawson Craddock (EF Education First-Drapac), Mathias Brandle (TrekSegafredo), Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal), Rudy Barbier (AG2R La Mondiale), Fredrik Frison (Lotto-Soudal), Michael Bresciani (Bardiani CSF), Nicolo Bonifazio (Trek-Segafredo), Nikolay Trusov (Gazprom-Rusvelo) and Joonas Henttala (Novo Nordisk) initially held a lead of over 10 minutes but on the early slopes of the climb their advantage was clipped to within two minutes.
Top ten final general Classification results.
1, Alejandro Valverde (Spain) Movistar Team 16:00:01, 2, Wilco Kelderman (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:00:17,
3, Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia) Astana Pro Team 0:00:29,
4, Julian Alaphilippe (France) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:31,
5, Rafal Majka (Poland) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:45,
6, Davide Formolo (Italy) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:13,
7, Diego Ulissi (Italy) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:18,
8, Rui Costa (Portugal) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:28,
9, Rohan Dennis (Australia) BMC Racing Team 0:01:29,
10, Emanuel Buchmann (Germany) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:37.
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