Australian Jay Vine secured his second stage win of this yr’s Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday as Jonas Vingegaard regained the general lead.

After Movistar’s Pablo Castrillo had attacked the remaining members of the breakaway on the ultimate climb, he was reeled in by Vine.

The 29-year-old UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG rider pulled away from Spaniard Castrillo to win by 35 seconds within the Larra-Belagua ski resort close to Spain’s border with France to safe the fourth Vuelta stage win of his profession.

Workforce Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard completed with a small group of main contenders simply over a minute behind the winner to regain the chief’s pink jersey from Torstein Traeen, who was dropped on the ultimate climb.

“Profitable is so, so laborious, and it is such an unimaginable feeling when it occurs,” Vine mentioned.

“I do not assume I will ever get used to successful, as a result of it is simply unbelievably laborious.”

Vine, who received the king of the mountains classification final yr, once more leads the race for the polka dot jersey, having additionally received this yr’s first mountain stage on Thursday.

Joao Almeida of UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG is third within the general rankings whereas Nice Britain’s Tom Pidcock, who completed fifth on Tuesday, is in fourth place within the basic classification.

Stage 11 on Wednesday is a 157.4km medium mountain stage, beginning and ending in Bilbao.