Overview
- Mikel Landa won the brutal penultimate summit finish to Collado del Alguacil while Mas defended and extended his overall lead to 2 minutes 15 seconds.
- Tadej Pogačar crashed out on stage eight, a loss that reshaped the race and let Mas inherit and then consolidate the red leader’s jersey.
- Organisers and teams agreed to neutralise the final circuits in Granada for safety, with general-classification times taken before the last lap and the stage reduced to a sprint for the win.
- The final standings after about 3,209 km put Mas first, Primož Roglič second at +2:15 and Felix Gall third at +2:44, while Norwegian Tobias Halland Johannessen took the last stage on Sunday.
- Mas’s victory ends a 12-year Spanish drought at the Vuelta and marks personal redemption after multiple near-misses, a result that should raise the profile of Movistar and Spanish cycling at large.