Cycling-Brennan rules Seville sprint as Visma claim seventh Vuelta stage win

Cycling - Vuelta a Espana - Stage 5 - Falset to Roquetes - Roquetes, Spain - August 26, 2026 Team Visma | Lease a Bike's James Matthew Brennan celebrates on the podium after winning stage 5 REUTERS/Bruna Casas

SEVILLE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Matthew ⁠Brennan turned Seville's grand avenues into another Visma-Lease a Bike runway ⁠on Wednesday, powering to his fifth stage win of this ‌year's Vuelta a Espana as the Dutch team's remarkable run of success continued.

The 21-year-old Briton, making his debut in the race, again proved untouchable when the peloton wound up ​for the final sprint, beating Jordi Meeus into ⁠second place while Magnus Cort ⁠Nielsen finished third.

Visma have now won seven stages in the race, with ⁠Brennan's ‌five victories added to Wout van Aert's two, underlining their dominance of the Vuelta's flat and rolling stages.

Enzo Paleni, SinuheFernandez and ⁠Fredrik Dversnes attacked shortly after the start of ​the 185-km stage, although ‌Dversnes quickly dropped back. Paleni and Fernandez pressed on and ⁠built a lead ​of more than five minutes around the halfway mark.

Visma, driven for long spells by Steven Kruijswijk, kept the breakaway within reach, with Cofidis also contributing as ⁠they worked for Bryan Coquard.

A brief acceleration ​by Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe split the bunch inside the final 50 kilometres, but the peloton soon regrouped. Paleni and Fernandez still held a lead of 1:50 ⁠with 25 kilometres remaining before Fernandez took the intermediate sprint at San Jose de la Rinconada.

Paleni then attacked alone with 15 kilometres left, but his lead shrank rapidly and he was caught inside the final three ​kilometres.

UAE, INEOS and Uno-X all tried to shape ⁠the run-in, but Brennan timed his effort best to seal another emphatic ​win.

Overall leader Enric Mas finished safely in the ‌bunch to retain the red jersey ​for a ninth successive stage, leading Felix Gall by 2:06 and Primoz Roglic by 2:10.

(Reporting by Fernando KallasEditing by Toby Davis)

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塞维利亚，9 月 9 日（路透社）——周三，马修·布伦南将塞维利亚的宽阔大道变成了 Visma-Lease a Bike 车队的另一条跑道，赢得了他今年环西班牙自行车赛的第五个赛段冠军，这支荷兰车队的辉煌战绩仍在继续。

这位 21 岁的英国车手首次参加比赛，在最后的冲刺阶段，他再次展现了无人能及的实力，击败了获得第二名的乔迪·米乌斯，而马格努斯·科特·尼尔森则获得了第三名。

Visma车队目前已赢得七个赛段冠军，布伦南的五场胜利加上沃特·范·阿尔特的两场胜利，凸显了他们在环西自行车赛平坦和起伏赛段的统治地位。

恩佐·帕莱尼、西努赫·费尔南德斯和弗雷德里克·德韦尔斯内斯在185公里赛段开始后不久便发动进攻，但德韦尔斯内斯很快掉队。帕莱尼和费尔南德斯继续推进，并在赛程过半时建立了超过五分钟的领先优势。

在史蒂文·克鲁伊斯维克的长时间驾驶下，维斯马车队始终保持着领先优势，科菲迪斯车队也在布莱恩·科卡尔的带领下做出了贡献。

红牛-博拉-汉斯格雅车队在最后50公里处短暂加速，一度将大集团拉开差距，但大集团很快重新集结。帕莱尼和费尔南德斯在距离终点25公里处仍保持着1分50秒的领先优势，随后费尔南德斯在圣何塞德拉林科纳达的途中冲刺点获胜。

帕莱尼随后在距离终点 15 公里处独自发起进攻，但他的领先优势迅速缩小，并在最后 3 公里内被追上。

阿联酋航空、英力士和 Uno-X 都试图改变比赛的最后阶段，但布伦南把握时机，再次取得了一场酣畅淋漓的胜利。

总成绩领先者恩里克·马斯安全地在大集团中完赛，连续第九个赛段保住了红衫，领先菲利克斯·加尔 2 分 06 秒，领先普里莫兹·罗格利奇 2 分 10 秒。

（费尔南多·卡拉斯报道，托比·戴维斯编辑）

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