Giulio Pellizzari finished sixth overall in the Giro d'Italia earlier this year
Italy's Giulio Pellizzari won stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espana, with Britain's Tom Pidcock in second as Jonas Vingegaard extended his overall race lead.
Pellizzari, 21, launched an attack 3.5km from the end of the 143.2km route on the punishing slopes of the summit finish on the Alto de El Morredero.
Pidcock was next to cross the line from a small group of general classification favourites that had gone clear on the climb, with Pellizzari's Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe team-mate Jai Hindley in third.
Vingegaard was fourth, two seconds ahead of his main rival Joao Almeida, who is now 50 seconds adrift of the Dane in the GC race.
