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Volta a Catalunya: Jonas Vingegaard dominates stage 5 mountaintop finish to Coll de Pal for solo victory

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LA MOLINA, SPAIN - MARCH 27: Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike celebrates at finish line as stage winner during the 105th Volta a Catalunya 2026, Stage 5 a 155.3km stage from La Seu d'Urgell to La Molina/Coll de Pal 2109m / #UCIWT / on March 27, 2026 in La Molina, Spain. (Photo by Szymon Gruchalski/Getty Images).

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) continued his storming start to the season, taking control of the Volta a Catalunya with a dominant solo victory atop the Coll de Pal on stage 5 on Friday.

This was only the first summit finish of the race after the removal of the previous day’s climb to Vallter 2000, and the persisting high winds even forced the organisers to chop 2.2km off the top of this one, but it still left 17km of the brutal mountain for Vingegaard to flex his muscles.

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