With a tremendous final sprint in Madrid one week before the World Championships in Madrid, Fassa Bortolo's Alessandro Petacchi won his fifth stage of the 60th Vuelta a España for his sixteenth career Vuelta a España stage

win and twenty-eighth victory of the 2005 season, all on Pinarello Dogma FP.

Petacchi's Vuelta sprinting was so good that he took the Points classification too.

Next stop: The World Championships on Sunday, September 25th.



60th Vuelta a España

Sunday, September 18

Stage 21: Madrid-Madrid, 136.5 km

1. Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) Fassa Bortolo 3h34'41" (38.15 km/hr avg)



60th Vuelta a España Final Points Classification

1. Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) Fassa Bortolo: 169 pts