Sepp Kuss delivers for Roglic, Vingegaard on Vuelta a España's first summit finish

Vuelta a Espana: Sepp Kuss whittling down the lead group on stage 3
Vuelta a Espana: Sepp Kuss whittling down the lead group on stage 3 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) provided the biggest GC fireworks on the Vuelta a España's first summit finish on Monday, but Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) took away the unofficial prize as top climbing domestique of the day.

Here, there and seemingly everywhere on the two category 1 climbs in Andorra, Kuss first chased down an attack by UAE Team Emirates rival Juan Ayuso and then made a dig himself to try and test the GC rivals' strength.

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.