Vuelta 2023: Favourites

Sepp Kuss vuelta - Vuelta 2023: Favouritesfoto: Cor VosSepp Kuss won the 2023 Vuelta a España, while Remco Evenepoel and Kaden Groves were the most successful stage hunters. The Belgian and the Australian both took three stages.

Read about the pre-race favourites or click on the links in underneath table for the favourites to win individual stages. Obviously, all these articles were written before the start of the race(s).

Vuelta a España 2023 stages:

date favourites km type
1 26-8 First red jersey in Barcelona 14.8 TTT
2 27-8 Punchers on Montjuïc 181.8 hills
3 28-8 Attackers in the Pyrenees 158.5 mountains
4 29-8 For fast men#1 183,6 flat
5 30-8 Breakaway day 186.2 hills
6 31-8 Mountain goat at Vulture’s Peak 183.1 mountains
7 1-9 For fast men#2 200.8 flat
8 2-9 For punchy descenders 165.0 mountains
9 3-9 Attackers on steep final pitches 184.5 hills
4-9 rest day
10 5-9 Evenepoel versus ITT all-stars 25.8 ITT
11 6-9 Attackers at Laguna Negra 163.2 hills
12 7-9 For fast men#3 150.6 flat
13 8-9 GC clash at Tourmalet 134.7 mountains
14 9-9 Tough day in the Pyrenees 156.2 mountains
15 10-9 Attackers with descending skills 158.3 hills
11-9 rest day
16 12-9 Punchers party 120.1 hills
17 13-9 Ouch, El Angliru! 124.4 mountains
18 14-9 Last high mountain stage 178.9 mountains
19 15-9 For fast men#4 177.1 flat
20 16-9 Liège-Bastogne-Liège à la Vuelta 207.8 hills
21 17-9 For fast men#5 101.1 flat

Watch the highlights of recent races here:

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