Thomas Boudat (Direct Energie) pierwszy zameldował się na mecie odcinka otwierającego 64. edycję wyścigu Vuelta a Andalucia.
Francuz na finiszu w Grenadzie ograł Sachę Modolo (Education First-Drapac) i Clementa Venturiniego (Ag2r la Mondiale).
7. miejsce zajął Niemiec Jonas Koch z polskiej grupy CCC Sprandi Polkowice.
Trasa liczyła blisko 200 kilometrów, prowadząc w górzystym terenie. Do pokonania było sześć górskich premii, w tym Puerto de Zafarraya (118 km; 11,5 km; 6,1%), Alto del Lucero (157 km; 5,7 km; 5,4%) i 20 kilometrów przed metą Alto de la Malaha (2,4 km; 4%).
Ucieczkę dnia zorganizowali Garikoitz Bravo (Euskadi Basque Country-Murias), Luis Mas (Caja Rural), Txomin Juaristi (Fundacion Euskadi), Romain Sicard (Direct Energie) i Silvan Dillier (Ag2r la Mondiale), odskakując na 5 minut u podnóża przełęczy Zafarraya.
Pościg napędzały Education First i Team Sky, ale dopiero, gdy do pracy przystąpiła Astana dystans zaczął maleć. Po ostatnim podjeździe na czele pozostał Dillier. Mistrza Szwajcarii peleton pochłonął 14 kilometrów przed metą.
Długi dzień zakończył masowy sprint. Ręce na kresce do góry wyrzucił Modolo, ale to finiszujący po lewej stronie Włocha Boudat okazał się najszybszy.
1 Thomas Boudat (Fra) Direct Energie 5:21:39 2 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac 3 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 5 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 6 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team 7 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 8 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal 9 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo 10 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 11 Sean De Bie (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 12 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 13 Jordi Simon Casulleras (Spa) Burgos BH 14 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 15 Diego Rubio Hernandez (Spa) Burgos BH 16 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 17 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 18 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 19 Jose Manuel Diaz (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 20 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac 21 Gotzon Martin Sanz (Spa) Team Euskadi 22 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 23 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 24 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 25 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 26 Jon Ander Insausti (Spa) Team Euskadi 27 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 28 Martijn Budding (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 29 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 30 Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 31 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 32 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 33 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 34 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 35 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 36 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 37 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 38 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 39 Silvan Dillier (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 40 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 41 Stef Clement (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 42 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling 43 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 44 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 45 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 46 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 47 David De La Cruz (Spa) Team Sky 48 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac 49 Ricardo Garcia (Spa) Team Euskadi 50 Hector Saez Benito (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 51 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 52 Ryan Anderson (Can) Rally Cycling 53 Jorge Cubero Galvez (Spa) Burgos BH 54 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 55 Oscar Riesebeek (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 56 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 57 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky 58 Łukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 59 Ibai Azurmendi Sagastibeltza (Spa) Team Euskadi 60 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 61 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team Sky 62 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky 63 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 64 Floris De Tier (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 65 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy 66 Koen Bouwmam (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 67 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 68 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 69 Lars Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal 70 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 71 José Mendes (Por) Burgos BH 72 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 73 Alexander Foliforov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 74 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 75 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Direct Energie 76 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team 77 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 78 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 79 Juan Antonio Lopez-Cozar Jaimez (Spa) Team Euskadi 80 Antonio Molina Canet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 81 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos BH 82 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie 83 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 84 Pablo Torres Mui?o (Spa) Burgos BH 85 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 86 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Astana Pro Team 87 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Direct Energie 88 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team 89 Romain Sicard (Fra) Direct Energie 90 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 91 Alvaro Cuadros Morata (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 92 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 93 Robert Britton (Can) Rally Cycling 94 Nigel Ellsay (Can) Rally Cycling 95 Huub Duijn (Ned) Verandas Willems Crelan 96 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First-Drapac 00:19 97 Michael Valgren (Den) Astana Pro Team 01:09 98 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 99 Senne Leysen (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 06:57 100 Julien Duval (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 101 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 102 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 103 Imerio Cima (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 104 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 105 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Verandas Willems Crelan 106 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 107 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 108 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 109 Evgeny Kobernyak (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 110 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 111 Marko Kump (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 112 Przemysław Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 113 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 114 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac 115 Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 116 Dennis van Winden (Ned) Israel Cycling Academy 117 Nelson Andres Soto Martinez (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 118 Patryk Stosz (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 119 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 120 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 121 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 122 Joan Bou Company (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 123 Michael Goolaerts (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 124 Julien Trarieux (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 125 Jérôme Baugnies (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 126 Filippo Zaccanti (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 127 David Tanner (Aus) Verandas Willems Crelan 128 Daniel Turek (Cze) Israel Cycling Academy 129 Brenton Jones (Aus) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 130 Jesper Asselman (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 131 Robbert de Greef (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 132 Dmitriy Kozontchuk (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 133 Jeroen Meijers (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 134 Coen Vermeltfoort (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 135 Aleksei Rybalkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 136 Adrien Petit (Fra) Direct Energie 137 Romain Cardis (Fra) Direct Energie 138 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling 139 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally Cycling 140 Edward Planckaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 141 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 142 Txomin Juaristi Arrieta (Spa) Team Euskadi 143 Egoitz Fernandez Ayarzaguena (Spa) Team Euskadi 144 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 145 Jesus Ezquerra Muela (Spa) Burgos BH 146 Matti Breschel (Den) EF Education First-Drapac 13:38 147 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 148 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 149 Sho Hatsuyama (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 150 Marino Kobayashi (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 151 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First-Drapac 152 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini
1 Thomas Boudat (Fra) Direct Energie 5:21:39 2 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac 3 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 5 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 6 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team 7 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 8 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal 9 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo 10 Jan Tratnik (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 11 Sean De Bie (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 12 Dries Van Gestel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 13 Jordi Simon Casulleras (Spa) Burgos BH 14 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 15 Diego Rubio Hernandez (Spa) Burgos BH 16 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 17 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 18 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 19 Jose Manuel Diaz (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 20 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac 21 Gotzon Martin Sanz (Spa) Team Euskadi 22 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 23 Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 24 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 25 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 26 Jon Ander Insausti (Spa) Team Euskadi 27 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 28 Martijn Budding (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 29 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 30 Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 31 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 32 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 33 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 34 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 35 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 36 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 37 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 38 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 39 Silvan Dillier (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 40 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 41 Stef Clement (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 42 Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling 43 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 44 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 45 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 46 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 47 David De La Cruz (Spa) Team Sky 48 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac 49 Ricardo Garcia (Spa) Team Euskadi 50 Hector Saez Benito (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 51 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 52 Ryan Anderson (Can) Rally Cycling 53 Jorge Cubero Galvez (Spa) Burgos BH 54 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 55 Oscar Riesebeek (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 56 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 57 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky 58 Łukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 59 Ibai Azurmendi Sagastibeltza (Spa) Team Euskadi 60 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 61 Philip Deignan (Irl) Team Sky 62 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky 63 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 64 Floris De Tier (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 65 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy 66 Koen Bouwmam (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 67 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 68 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 69 Lars Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal 70 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 71 José Mendes (Por) Burgos BH 72 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 73 Alexander Foliforov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 74 Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 75 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Direct Energie 76 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team 77 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 78 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 79 Juan Antonio Lopez-Cozar Jaimez (Spa) Team Euskadi 80 Antonio Molina Canet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 81 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos BH 82 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie 83 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural 84 Pablo Torres Mui?o (Spa) Burgos BH 85 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 86 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Astana Pro Team 87 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Direct Energie 88 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team 89 Romain Sicard (Fra) Direct Energie 90 James Shaw (GBr) Lotto Soudal 91 Alvaro Cuadros Morata (Spa) Caja Rural 92 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 93 Robert Britton (Can) Rally Cycling 94 Nigel Ellsay (Can) Rally Cycling 95 Huub Duijn (Ned) Verandas Willems Crelan 96 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First-Drapac 00:19 97 Michael Valgren (Den) Astana Pro Team 01:09 98 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 99 Senne Leysen (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 06:57 100 Julien Duval (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 101 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 102 Roman Maikin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 103 Imerio Cima (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 104 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 105 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Verandas Willems Crelan 106 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 107 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 108 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 109 Evgeny Kobernyak (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 110 Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 111 Marko Kump (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 112 Przemysław Kasperkiewicz (Pol) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 113 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 114 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac 115 Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 116 Dennis van Winden (Ned) Israel Cycling Academy 117 Nelson Andres Soto Martinez (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 118 Patryk Stosz (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 119 Enrique Sanz Unzue (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 120 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 121 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 122 Joan Bou Company (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 123 Michael Goolaerts (Bel) Verandas Willems Crelan 124 Julien Trarieux (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 125 Jérôme Baugnies (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 126 Filippo Zaccanti (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 127 David Tanner (Aus) Verandas Willems Crelan 128 Daniel Turek (Cze) Israel Cycling Academy 129 Brenton Jones (Aus) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 130 Jesper Asselman (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 131 Robbert de Greef (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 132 Dmitriy Kozontchuk (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 133 Jeroen Meijers (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 134 Coen Vermeltfoort (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 135 Aleksei Rybalkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 136 Adrien Petit (Fra) Direct Energie 137 Romain Cardis (Fra) Direct Energie 138 Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Rally Cycling 139 Kyle Murphy (USA) Rally Cycling 140 Edward Planckaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 141 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 142 Txomin Juaristi Arrieta (Spa) Team Euskadi 143 Egoitz Fernandez Ayarzaguena (Spa) Team Euskadi 144 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 145 Jesus Ezquerra Muela (Spa) Burgos BH 146 Matti Breschel (Den) EF Education First-Drapac 13:38 147 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 148 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 149 Sho Hatsuyama (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 150 Marino Kobayashi (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini 151 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First-Drapac 152 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Europa Ovini