Volta a Catalunya stage 5 Live – Final opportunity of the sprinters

It ought to be a day for the sprinters and with Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) out, it could possibly be right down to a British showdown between Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) and Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike), with Pavel Bittner (Picnic-PostNL) and others having a go.

There’s some debate on what the size of immediately’s stage is with some saying as little as 165.8km and others going so far as 172km. The street e-book says that the race is going down between Paüls and Amposta over 172km, so we’re going with that.

Whats up and welcome to CyclingNews’ reside report of stage 5 on the Volta a Catalunya 2025.