Matt Govero, new leader of the Vuelta al Ecuador; Santiago Montenegro winner in Santo Domingo | Other Sports | sports

Quick shift, with changes between leaderboards and new surprise with the Americans from the VIE13 Factory Team who have Matt Govero as the new wearer of the yellow jersey. The ecuadorian Santiago Montenegro won the day which closed in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.

The current champion of the national round regained ground at the end of the day, at the head of the chasing group cut the difference of 2 minutes with the escape lot, that led by Hugo Quinatoa they fought the favorites.

The Pichinchano and the Oro y Grana team featured in much of the stage, with Quinatoa wins in all three fractions to be the new leader of the flying goal classification.

Quinatoa passed first in the sectors of Fumisa, Los Angeles and in the cut at kilometer 92, in which he defined his triumph of the day in the fight for the green jersey.

Montenegro (Best PC) was also part of a leak, along with Jordan Miller (Factory), who after cutting a difference of 20 seconds 10 other runners joined, which left 2 minutes with respect to the main batch.

In the Los Angeles sector, half of the route was completed, with Quinatoa leading the group of escapees who reached a sum of 13 points in this classification and a difference maintained between the pursuing lot and the leading group, in 2 minutes 40 seconds.

The work of the peloton allowed the difference to be reduced by 35 seconds, with Sebastián Novoa, leader of flying goals, seeking to avoid the sum of Quinatoa, who with the five points obtained in the third part of the stage dethroned the rider of the Best PC and he will be the one who, with 18 points, wears the green jersey in the fifth stage.

After kilometer 92 the batch of leaders went in search of the escapees, which opened the fight in the last 10 kilometers of the day with Montenegro demanding the group and in the end at the head of the peloton to cross the finish line at the Cathedral of Santo de Santo Domingo.

“It is a very nice arrival, the previous year we also fought in this sector. It was also good to meet again with a victory after so long”, Said Montenegro, who returned to the country after two irregular seasons in Spain, with the notch of the Escribano Team Sports.

I weighed the triumph, the Sucumbisense is far from the fight for the general classification, something you said is out.

“The objective is to help the leaders that the team has“There is a lot of time lost in the general classification, but we are here to help the team win the title,” he said.

The podium of the day had in second place to Govero, Who new leader of the general classification of the test, which changes the altimetry to start on high ground.

“We got the shirt, we are going to enjoy having it tomorrow (Sunday) to see how it goes,” said the American.

From this Sunday the work in the mountains begins. The fifth stage will go from Sangolquí to Ibarra, a fraction of kilometers in which changes in the general and the appearances of the climbers are expected of the test, in the second part of the competition and in search of the new national monarch. (D)