 At the Tour de France, Sánchez finished second on Stage 9 after being in the breakaway, and went on to finish eleventh overall – later revised to tenth after Contador was stripped of the title – his best result to date in the Tour.Following the Tour, Sánchez took his biggest one-day race victory by winning the Clásica de San Sebastián.Sánchez also rode the Vuelta a España, and finished tenth overall after a strong final week.