Durán climbs to victory

Arkaitz Durán grabbed his 16th (!) win of the year in Wednesday's Subida a Altzo hill time trial.

The former youth prodigy spent eight minutes and 16 seconds on the 5,2km course, besting Lizarte's Santi Ramírez by three seconds, www.biciciclismo.com reports. Third was for crono specialist Ion Ander Insausti, the Bidelan rider who was crowned regional time trial champion of Gipuzkoa in late May and should attract the interest of Orbea after a stellar season.

Full results are yet to come in.

Provisional results:

• 1, Arkaitz Durán (Azysa), 8:16
• 2, Santi Ramírez (Lizarte), 0:03
• 3, Ion Ander Insausti (Bidelan-Kirolgi), 0:08
• 4, Julen Amezketa (Seguros Bilbao), 0:13
• 5, Adrián González (Ibaigane Opel), 0:14

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