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Alejandro Valverde noted today in the Lagunas de Neila the 31 th edition of the Tour of Burgos, after qualifying fourth in the fifth and final stage, Ezequiel Mosquera 9 seconds of the winner of the stage.

Alexander, who attacked his rivals on the final climb of the day and finish the race ten seconds ahead of Xavier Tondo and twelve of Tom Danielson, also takes the end of the regular classification.

"Having just 5 seconds of delay in general, I knew that today's stage would be a great opportunity to score the final victory but he also knew it would not be easy because our opponents had no intention of making things easy.

As they do every time the situation requires it, all my colleagues made, once again, an outstanding job to make things easier and I thank you for your work on the final climb because I only had to finish.

Have the strength and motivation to do so and that is very important to me, when there are less than three weeks before the start of the Tour of Spain.

I will continue working hard to get to one hundred percent in Assen on 29th August and try to get my first win in a wide span of three weeks. "

This is the seventh victory won by Alejandro Valverde in 2009 after it has previously won the third and the fifth stage of the Tour of Castilla and León, the Spring Klasik Amorebieta, the third stage and the final classification of the Volta a Catalunya and the final classification of the Dauphiné Libéré.

Great weekend for the whole Caisse d'Epargne, after the Spaniard Dani Moreno finished the Tour of Poland yesterday in second place in the overall standings and José Joaquín Rojas final this afternoon, the fourth in the first stage of Tour l'Ain, Alejandro Valverde noted today the 31 th edition of the Vuelta a Burgos.

Valverde attacked his rivals on the final climb of the day, rising to Lagunas de Neila, finished the stage in fourth place, 9 seconds behind the winner Ezequiel Mosquera.

Caisse d'Epargne team scored the final team classification.

Source: Agencias