Alberto Contador underlines Vuelta a Espana lead with queen stage win

Chris Froome attacks on final climb but cannot shift Alberto Contador from top of general classification

Alberto Contador wins Stage 16 of the 2014 Tour of Spain

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) won the queen stage of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana ahead of Chris Froome (Sky).

The Spaniard attacked his British rival with one kilometre to go, and managed to pull out a lead of fifteen seconds , which, when added to the ten bonus seconds for finishing first, means he now lies 1-39 ahead of Froome in the overall classification.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.