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Vuelta Stage 12: Magnus Cort takes win – 24 hours after being pipped to the line

Dane takes fifth career stage win at Spanish Grand Tour, Odd Christian Eiking retains overall lead
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Magnus Cort of EF Education-Nippo, caught a couple of hundred metres from the line yesterday, has won his second stage of this year’s Vuelta, and the fifth of his career, in Cordoba this afternoon.

The Dane’s victory today came after a four-man break was reeled in with less than one kilometre remaining of the 175km stage from Jaen, which featured two categorised climbs in the final third of the route.

The 28-year-old, winner of last week’s Stage 6 at Alto de la Montaña de Cullera, beat Team BikeExchange’s Michael Matthews and Matteo Trentin of UAE Team Emirates to clinch victory today and make up for yesterday’s disappointment.

Odd Christian Eiking of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert retains the race lead by 58 seconds from Guillaume Martin of Cofidis, with defending champion Primoz Roglic a further 58 seconds back in third place overall.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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