Andrew August sprinted clear from a late breakaway Friday to snag his first professional victory on stage 3 of the Volta Comunitat Valenciana.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old American showed tactical smarts beyond his years in a nervous finale into San Vicente del Raspeig, sitting tight in a four-rider move while Ineos Grenadiers teammate Ben Turner was poised in the chasing group behind.<\/p>\n
August skipped his turns, saved his legs, and waited as the break\u2019s advantage bled down to seconds under the red kite from the chasing peloton.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it all today. With 50km to go, the team said it\u2019s time to go to the front to pull back the break. I followed the attack, and I had no reason to pull because we had Ben behind for the sprint,\u201d August said on Eurosport<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s not the way I imagined my first pro win. I saved a lot of energy for the finale, and it was not my role to contribute, so I sprinted from the back. It was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n August launched at the right moment, and held off \u00c5dne Holter and Florian Vermeersch to seal the win in 3:20:54 and open his pro account with his first win since joining Ineos Grenadiers in 2024.<\/p>\n The victory is a breakthrough for one of American cycling\u2019s most highly touted young talents, who joined Ineos as a teenager in 2024 after making the jump straight into the WorldTour from the Hot Tubes development squad.<\/p>\n More to come \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/american-talent-august-plays-breakaway-perfectly-to-snag-first-pro-win\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2260250236.jpg”] Published February 6, 2026 09:20AM Andrew August sprinted clear from a late breakaway Friday to snag his first professional victory on stage 3 of the Volta Comunitat Valenciana. The 20-year-old American showed tactical smarts beyond his years in a nervous finale into San Vicente del Raspeig, sitting tight in a four-rider move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1758676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}