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Australian rider Kaden Groves won stage two of the Vuelta a Espana with a sprint finish as Belgian Wout van Aert took the overall lead.
Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Groves finished Sunday’s 194km stage from Cascais to Ourem ahead of Van Aert in second and Corbin Strong in third.
“It’s been a tough year for myself without a win yet,” Groves, 25, said. “I have come here super motivated to change that. I have to thank my team for a really strong ride today.
“[The win] is incredibly important for our team.”
On Saturday, Van Aert had finished third in the opening time trial and was frustrated not to win a stage for the second consecutive day.
However, he took the overall leader’s red jersey by virtue of six bonus seconds.
“Of course, I wanted to win this stage,” he said.
“My team did a really good job to make it a bunch sprint so it’s unfortunate to arrive second, but today I knew that finishing in the first three meant the red jersey, so after all it’s a good day.”
Several riders were involved in a crash inside the last 4km.
Ineos Grenadiers’ Welsh rider Josh Tarling was lucky to avoid serious injury as he crashed into a wall. All of those involved managed to reach the finish line and did not lose time.
Stage three will take place on Monday and will see the athletes ride 191.2km from Lousa to Castelo Branco.
Stage two results
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Kaden Groves (Aus/Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5 hrs 12 mins 55 secs
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Wout van Aert (Bel/Visma-Lease a Bike) Same time
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Corbin Strong (NZ/Israel-Premier Tech)
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Pau Miquel Delgado (Spa/Equipo Kern Pharma)
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Lennert Van Eetvelt (Bel/Lotto Dstny)
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Pavel Bittner (Cze/Team DSM-Firmenich Postnl)
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Jon Aberasturi (Spa/Euskaltel-Euskadi)
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Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Red Bull)
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Brandon Rivera (Col/Ineos Grenadiers)
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Filippo Barnocini (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)
General classification
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Wout van Aert (Bel/Visma-Lease a Bike) 5hrs 25mins 27secs
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Brandon McNulty (US/UAE Team Emirates) +3secs
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Mathias Vacek (Cze/Lidl-Trek) +5secs
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Stefan Kung (Swi/Groupama-FDJ) +9secs
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Edoardo Affini (Ita/Visma-Lease a Bike) +11secs
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Josh Tarling (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) Same time
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Mauro Schmid (Swi/Jayco-Allua) +19secs
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Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +20secs
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Bruno Armirail (Fra/Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) +21secs
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Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates) +22secs