2010 Volta a Catalunya
| 2010 UCI World Ranking, race 5 of 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 22–28 March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,042 km (647.5 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 25h 16' 03" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP)
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(Team Katusha) |
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| Second |
Xavier Tondó (ESP)
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(Cervélo TestTeam) | |
| Third |
 Rein Taaramäe (EST)
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(Cofidis) | |
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Mountains |
David Gutiérrez Gutiérrez (ESP)
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(Footon–Servetto–Fuji) |
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Sprints |
Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP)
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(Euskaltel–Euskadi) |
| Team | Team Katusha | ||
The 2010 Volta a Catalunya was the 90th running of the race. It was the second race of the UCI ProTour calendar of 2010, and took place from 22 to 28 March.
As the Volta a Catalunya was a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTour teams were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad. Four Professional Continental teams rounded out the event's peloton. Each team was entitled to eight riders on their squad, but Lampre–Farnese Vini, Team HTC–Columbia, and Team Milram sent only seven, and Team Sky sent only six, meaning the event had 171 riders at its outset.
The 22 teams in the race were:
The course for the brief individual time trial which opened the race was dead flat. This was the same course used the previous two years in the time trial.Paul Voss of Team Milram was the unexpected winner of the stage, beating out Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Klöden.
This course included the race's first climb, the first-category Alt Els Àngels, which crested just before the 60 km (37 mi). The 110 km (68 mi) from after the descent to the finish line were mostly flat, leaving a sprint finish likely.
Peter Stetina and Jonathan Castroviejo formed a two-man escape after 9 km (5.6 mi) of this stage. They took a maximum advantage of eight and a half minutes, but the teams of the sprinters, namely Lampre–Farnese Vini and Team HTC–Columbia, had no trouble catching them. They did, for their efforts, gain the leads in the mountains and sprints competitions after the stage. The finish was contested in a bunched sprint, won by Mark Cavendish. It was Cavendish's first win of 2010 after a difficult early season.
Stage 2 Result
General Classification after Stage 2
This was a difficult stage, with several categorized climbs. The outside categorization Alt del Pedraforça was the Cima Peris, the race's hardest climb, and crested just before the 120 km (75 mi) mark, after two second-category climbs earlier on. Another category-two climb, the Alt de la Josa del Cadí, followed before a 26 km (16 mi) long descent to the finish.
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