Ewan makes a breakthrough with Vuelta a Espana stage win

Two years after Michael Matthews secured his breakthrough Grand Tour stage win in the 2013 Vuelta a España, Orica-GreenEdge's Caleb Ewan followed his teammate's wheeltracks with a classy uphill victory against John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo).

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.