American Sheffield slips out to miss shot at win, protester knocks over two riders in the chasing group with about 55km to go.
Sheffield rode into the winning move but slipped out on the final corner just before the sprint. (Photo: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Updated September 7, 2025 09:58AM
Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) kicked to an overdue stage win Sunday that was anything but easy after a big breakaway pulled clear in hilly terrain across Spain’s Galicia region in stage 15 at the Vuelta a España.
Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) crashed on the final corner and could not contest the reduced bunch sprint. The American finished eighth.
The main bunch rolled in more than 13 minutes back.
A few riders in the break moved up on GC, including Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step), who bounced from 13th to ninth.
Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) also nudged back into the top 15 after gaining back time in the break, pushing Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) out of the top 10.
No riders abandoned, and none of the major jerseys changed hands.
There were also no major shakeups in the overall classification, and Jonas Vingegaard carried a 48-second lead into Monday’s rest day and the final decisive week of the 2025 Vuelta.
The stage also saw two riders crash in the chasing group with about 55km when a protester appeared to be trying to hold up a banner and slipped into the oncoming riders. Two crashed but were able to continue.
At the finish, police were forced to put up a second layer of barriers after protesters were getting too unruly as the bunch approached the line.