(Reuters) -Italy's Giulio Pellizzari powered away from a small group of riders in the final kilometres on the climb to the finish to win stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espana on Wednesday, with Jonas Vingegaard increasing his overall lead by two seconds.
Red Bull-BORA Hansgrohe rider Pellizzari attacked with 3.5km left of the 143.2km ride from O Barco de Valdeorras summit finish at the category one climb Alto de El Morredero and came in 16 seconds ahead of Britain's Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) with Australian Jai Hindley in third.
Vingegaard was next over the line, two seconds ahead of his closest general classification rival Joao Almeida, and the Dane holds a 50 second lead, with Pidcock almost two and a half minutes down on the red jersey in third.
(Reporting by Trevor Stynes, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
