Pablo Urtasun won the final stage as Ángel Vicioso completed victory in the 52nd Vuelta a Asturias.

Liberty Seguros rider Urtasun was the quickest rider of a six-man breakaway group that formed during the 184.4km stage to Oviedo.

Urtasu, Gorka Verdugo (Euskaltel), Branislau Samoilau (Acqua Sapone), Julián Sánchez Pimienta (Contempolis Murcia), Daniele Contrini (Tinkoff) and Josu Mondelo (Extremadura) built up over a seven minute lead en-route from Pravia and they contested the finish.

Samoilau led out the sprint but was overtaken by the home rider in the final 200 metres as he collected his fourth professional victory.

Constantino Zaballa led the peloton over the line, 4:15 back, with Vicioso safely ensconced in the group as he finished 1:06 ahead of Xavier Tondo on GC.

FOURTH STAGE

Tomas Marczynski of the Flaminia team won the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Asturias as Ángel Vicioso extended his overall lead.

Polish rider Marczynski finished 43 seconds ahead of David De La Fuente following the 180km stage from Pravia to El Acebo.

Vicioso of LA Aluminios-MSS was seventh and now leads team-mate Xavier Tondo by 59 seconds entering Wednesday's final stage from Cangas de Narcea to Oviedo.

THIRD STAGE

Angel Vicioso held onto the overall lead in the Vuelta a Asturias at the end of stage three, which was won by Stefano Garzelli.

Spaniard Vicioso was involved in the final sprint of the 168.2km stage between Llanes and Aviles, but the La Aluminios-MSS rider eventually finished fourth behind Italians Garzelli (Acqua Sappone-Makambo) and Bernardo Riccio (Tinkoff) as well as compatriot Joaquin Sobrino (Burgos Monumental).

Garzelli is in second place in the overall standings. The rest of the top five is comprised of Xavier Tondo Volpini, Constantino Zaballa Gutierrez and Bruno Pires (all La-MSS), though only Gutierrez managed to finish in the top ten on Stage Three.

Tuesday's stage makes the 180.2 km trip from Pravia to El Acebo, before the final 184.4 km leg from Cangas de Narcea back to Oviedo on Wednesday.

SECOND STAGE

A fourth place finish in a 17.2km time trial from Nueva to Llanes saw Angel Vicioso hang onto the lead of the Tour of Asturias despite having provisionally lost it earlier in the day.

The day's racing was done in two parts - first there was a 95 kilometres race between Gijón and Llanes, which ended in a sprint finish.

Italian Stefano Garzelli was victorious and with the bonus seconds gained he had overtaken Vicioso.

But he could only finish 29th in the time trial and slipped to fourth in GC.

Garzelli of Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo is the only non-LA Aluminios-MSS rider in the top five.

Xavier Tondo Volpini is second, Constantino Zaballa Gutierrez third, and Bruno Pires fifth.

FIRST STAGE

Angel Vicioso won the opening stage of the Tour of Asturias in the north of Spain as LA Aluminios-MSS riders dominated proceedings.

After an early break from Italy's Luigi Sestili (Cerámica Flaminia-Bossini Docce) and Spain's Enrique Salgueiro (Extremadura) was chased down, four riders from the Portugal-based LA Aluminios-MSS team, including Vicioso, attacked.

They were joined by Italian Stefano Garzelli (Acqua Sapone-Mokambo) and he actually nearly nicked the stage but Vicioso just edged him on the line.

The stage was a 158.2km trek linking the region's two biggest cities - Oviedo and Gijón.

The race runs until Monday.

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