{"id":19169,"date":"2025-08-31T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/philipsen-wins-stage-eight-as-traeen-retains-lead\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:13:40","slug":"philipsen-wins-stage-eight-as-traeen-retains-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/philipsen-wins-stage-eight-as-traeen-retains-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philipsen wins stage eight as Traeen retains lead"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage eight. <\/b><\/p>\n

The Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck rider edged out Italy’s Elia Viviani (Lotto) and Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) of Great Britain in a photo finish on the 163.5km stage from Monzon Templario to Zaragoza. <\/p>\n

“I had to find my way, take a bit of extra wind, and really come late because my legs were concrete,” said Philipsen. <\/p>\n

“But I just managed to win so I’m really happy, and the effort of the team has not been for nothing.<\/p>\n

“Every Grand Tour win is always a special one, and it’s never easy. You suffer a lot of days in the mountains to get here. From now on it’s going to be a tough Vuelta, but with the win, that always makes it a bit more easy.”<\/p>\n

General classification leader Torstein Traeen (Bahrain Victorious) retained the red jersey and remains two minutes 33 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) with 13 stages to go.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s stage is a 195km hilly ride from Alfaro to Valdezcaray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage eight. The Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck rider edged out Italy’s Elia Viviani (Lotto) and Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) of Great Britain in a photo finish on the 163.5km stage from Monzon Templario to Zaragoza. “I had to find my way, take a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19171,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions\/19171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}