Bora team celebrates with Higuita tour

The Colombian street bike master Sergio Higuita won the Catalonia tour. The 24-year-old was no longer able to take over 138.6 kilometers on Sunday on the seventh and last stage over 138.6 kilometers in the overall ranking on EX-Giro champion and Olympic champion Richard Carapaz from Ecuador. The daily victory in the sprint of the top group went to the Italian Andrea Bagioli (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl).

• Palters goes strong
• Total standings single, final stop after the 7th stage:
• mountain rating, final stop after the 7th stage:
• Sprinting, finishing after the 7th stage:
• Team rating, final stop after the 7th stage:

For the German Bora team decimated in the past weeks through diseases and injuries, it was the sixth season win. Higuita was changed from Team EF Education to Bora at the beginning of the year.

Palters goes strong

On the demanding stage, the Montjuic, the steep hill, on which the 1992 Olympic Stadium is climbed six times. Higuita is the fifth Colombian overall winner of the Catalonia tour. Team College Anton Palzer (Ramsau near Berchtesgaden) was with a residue of 16:43 minutes 25th and was therefore the best German.

Meanwhile, the European Championed European Champion Sonny Colbrelli collapsed at the beginning of the tour is returned to his Italian homeland. Since the 31-year-old is now in a stable state, he was allowed to leave the hospital in Girona on Saturday, shared Bahrain Victorious on Sunday. In Italy, Colbrelli should undergo further investigations in order to determine the cause of his cardiac arrhythmias.

Colbrelli was collapsed on Monday after the target sprint of the opponent stage and collapsed unconsciously. With the 31-year-old, a heart-lung revival had to be carried out.

7. Stage Barcelona / Spain - Barcelona / Spain (138.60 km), 27.3.2022:

1. Andrea Bagioli (Italy) - Decuninck-Quick-Step 3:18:09 hrs.; 2. Attila Valter (Hungary) - Groupama-FDJ + 0 sec.; 3. Fernando Barcelo Aragon (Spain) - Caja Rural-Seguros RGA; 4. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spain) - UAE Team Emirates; 5. Dylan Teuns (Belgium) - Bahrain Victorious; 6. Guillaume Martin (France) - Cofidis; 7. Nairo Quintana (Colombia) - Team Arkea-Samsic; 8. Carlos Verona (Spain) - Movistar Team; 9. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Colombia) - Bora-Hansgrohe; 10. Richard Carapaz Montenegro (Ecuador) - Ineos Grenadiers;... 46. Anton Palzer (Ramsau near Berchtesgaden) - Bora-Hansgrohe + 4:40 min.; 51. Ben Zwiehoff (Essen) - Bora-Hansgrohe; Phil Bauhaus (Cologne) - Bahrain Victorious excreted

Total standings single, final stop after the 7th stage:

1. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Colombia) - Bora-Hansgrohe 29:53:33 hrs.; 2. Richard Carapaz Montenegro (Ecuador) - Ineos Grenadiers + 16 sec.; 3. Joao Almeida (Portugal) - UAE Team Emirates + 52; 4. Nairo Quintana (Colombia) - Team Arkea-Samsic + 53; 5. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spain) - UAE Team Emirates + 1:08 min.; 6. Ben O'Connor (Australia) - AG2R Citroën Team + 1:10; 7. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Norway) - UNO-X Pro Cycling Team + 1:13; 8. Guillaume Martin (France) - Cofidis + 1:16; 9. Torstein Traeen (Norway) - UN-X Pro Cycling Team + 1:27; 10. Sam Oomen (Netherlands) - Jumbo-Visa + 1:55;... 25. Anton Palzer (Ramsau near Berchtesgaden) - Bora-Hansgrohe + 16:43; 63. Ben Zwiehoff (Essen) - Bora-Hansgrohe + 45:28

mountain rating, final stop after the 7th stage:

1. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Colombia) - Bora-Hansgrohe 28 Point; 2. Mikel Bizkarra (Spain) - Euskaltel - Euskadi 21; 3. other OKamika (Spain) - Burgos - BH 20; 4. Richard Carapaz Montenegro (Ecuador) - Ineos Grenadiers 20; 5. Steven Kruijswijk (Netherlands) - Jumbo Visa 17; 6. Joao Almeida (Portugal) - UAE Team Emirates 16; 7. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spain) - UAE Team Emirates 16; 8. Jesús Herrada Lopez (Spain) - Cofidis 15; 9. Nairo Quintana (Colombia) - Team Arkea-Samsic 14; 10. Quentin Pacher (France) - Groupama-FDJ 12

Sprinting, finishing after the 7th stage:

1. Kaden Groves (Australia) - BikeExchange 17 pts; 2. Richard Carapaz Montenegro (Ecuador) - Ineos Grenadiers 15; 3. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Colombia) - Bora Hansgrohe 15; 4. Joao Almeida (Portugal) - UAE Team Emirates 11; 5. Ben O'Connor (Australia) - AG2R Citroën Team 10; 6. Andrea Bagioli (Italy) - Decuninck-Quick-Step 10; 7. Ethan Vernon (United Kingdom) - Decaininck-Quick-Step 10; 8. Nairo Quintana (Colombia) - Team Arkea-Samsic 10; 9. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spain) - UAE Team Emirates 8; 10th Attila Valter (Hungary) - Groupama-FDJ 6

Team rating, final stop after the 7th stage:

1. Bahrain Victorious (Bahrain) 89:46:49 hrs.; 2. UAE Team Emirates (United Arab Emirates) + 6:35 min.; 3. Groupama FDJ (France) + 7:18; 4. UNO-X Pro Cycling Team (Norway) + 7:20; 5. Ineos Grenadiers (Great Britain) + 11:14; 6. Bora Hansgrohe (Germany) + 11:15; 7. Trek - SegaFredo (USA) + 17:53; 8. Wanty-Gobert (Belgium) + 18:00; 9. Movistar Team (Spain) + 24:50; 10. Jumbo Visa (Netherlands) + 26:44;... 23. Team DSM (Germany) + 1:40:08 hrs.