Roglic wins in Villarcayo and becomes leader of the Vuelta a Burgos

Roglic wins in Villarcayo and becomes leader of the Vuelta a Burgos

Roglic wins in Villarcayo and becomes leader of the Vuelta a Burgos

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The Jumbo Visma corridor Cousin Roglic became the leader of the Vuelta a Burgos after winning the third stage on Thursday after winning the speed and sprint to Alexander Vlasov (Bora) and adam yates (UAE Team Emirates), who were second and third, respectively.

The third stage (183 km) started from the town of Sargentes de la Lora, without attacks, in search of points in the first ports in play in a stage marked by the mountains, in which they had to ascend Picón Blanco (special category) 35 kilometers to go.

The breakaway of the day was soon formed (kilometre 20), after passing through the Alto de la Mota (3rd category) and was made up of nine members Lawrence Warbasse, Mattia Bais, Matteo Fabbro, Raul Garcia Leg, Filippo Conca, jesus ezquerra, Lennard Kamna, Jaakko Hanninen and Xabier Berasategi. The Euskaltel-Euskadi cyclist, leader of the Mountain Grand Prix up to this day, has finished first in all the stops of the day prior to the ascent to Picón Blanco (a total of four and all of them in the third category).

The breakaway had an advantage of 2:44, but the work carried out in the peloton by EF Education reduced the gap to 1:19 at the foot of the port.

On the climb to white picon, Raul Garcia Leg left the group, while the platoon caught up with left and Berasategiwho was complicated by the red jersey.

With 40 kilometers to go, the main group caught all the escapees, putting an end to the escape, while adam yates attacked with his teammates UAE Team Emirates George Bennett and Jay Vine and alone Cousin Roglic (Jumbo Visma) and Einar Rubio (Movistar) endured. They traveled further back damien howson (Q36.5) and Alexander Vlasov (Bora), later they joined with those above. On the contrary, Einer Rubio began to suffer and fell behind.

600 from crowning Picón Blanco adam yates attacked and alone roglic and howson reacted, the three who crowned in first place while behind were Bennett, Blond, Came, sell me and the Spanish from AstanaXavier Romo.

on the way down, Came suffered a fall without consequences and vlasov took the lead group, in which roglic he was setting the pace.

In the last of the ports, yachts added the last 6 points taking the mountain jersey, second was vlasovthird roglic and a quarter howson.

The four were calm in the last kilometer entering Villarcayo for the second time. yachts he tried, but the top speed of roglic prevented the victory of the British and it will be precisely roglic who wears the leader’s jersey of the Burgos round.

3rd STAGE CLASSIFICATION

1 – ROGLIC Primož (Jumbo) 4:26:00

2 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) mt

3 – Adam YACHTS (UAE) mt

4 – HOWSON Damien (Q36.5) mt

5 – ROMO Javier (Astana) +1:09

6 – BENNETT George (UAE) mt

7 – RUBIO Einer Augusto (Movistar) mt

8 – PRODHOMME Nicolas (AG2R) +3:17

9 – CASTRILLO Pablo (Kern Pharma) mt

10 – QUINN Sean (EF) mt

GENERAL RANKING

1 – ROGLIC Primoz (Jumbo) 8:19:26

2 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) +0:34

3 – Adam YACHTS (UAE) +0:40

4 – HOWSON Damien (Q36.5) +1:03

5 – BLONDE Einer Augusto (Movistar) +1:36

6 – BENNETT George (UAE) +1:51

7 – ROMO Javier (Astana) +2:09

8 – TRATNIK Jan (Jumbo) +4:01

9 – CASTRILLO Pablo (Kern Pharma) +4:14

10 – VERONA Carlos (Movistar) +4:20

Source: Eitb

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