Remco Evenepoel traps Roglic and takes the lead of the Tour of the Basque Country after the 5th stage

Evenepoel took six riders in his wake and not the least. Third and fourth overall Daniel Philippe Martinez and Alexandr Vlasov as well as Pello Bilbao, Jonas Vingegaard, Enric Mas and Ion Izagirre. Primoz Roglic was trapped by this surprising attack on the less steep portion of this climb.

The seven men then collaborated well to increase their lead over a group where Roglic did not give the slightest relay. However, they could not return to the last survivor of the breakaway of the day, the Spaniard of Ineos carlos rodriguezclever after having exploited the work of his compatriot Mark Soler to finally achieve the first success of his career at 21 years old.