Chris Horner tops podium, Vuelta a Espana 2013, stage 21

Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge) won the final stage of the 2013 Vuelta a Espana with a dominant sprint finish, while Chris Horner (RadioShack-Leopard) finished an incident-free day safely in the bunch to complete victory in the overall classification.

The podium is rounded off by Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), while Ireland's Nicholas Roche (Saxo-Tinkoff) placed fifth.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.