La Vuelta gets underway from Portugal

La Vuelta gets underway from Portugal

Lisbon, the exceptional capital of Portugal and a city that played a vital role during the Age of Discovery and Exploration, was the place where many of the world’s best riders gathered for the start of the season’s final Grand Tour – the Vuelta a España.

An individual time trial, held over a 12km mainly flat course along the coastline on the roads to Oeiras, established an initial pecking order, already making for some interesting gaps between the red jersey contenders. Kasper Asgreen, a multiple ITT National Champion, produced a strong effort and provisionally held third place, thanks to an impressive 55.31/km/h average speed, before eventually concluding this opening day won by Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) as the best placed T-Rex Quick-Step rider, only a handful of seconds separating him from the top ten.

La Vuelta continues on Sunday on the Portuguese roads, this time with a 194km road stage to Ourem. Alto da Batalha, a fourth-category climb that will be topped with just twenty kilometers to go, is where some riders could try to attack in order to increase their chances of victory.

 

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Race details

1 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
12:35
2 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
0:02
3 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:03
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:06
5 Edoardo Affini
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:08
6 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
0:08
7 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:16
8 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:17
9 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:18
10 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:19
15 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:26
17 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:27
92 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1:05
93 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:06
97 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:09
114 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:14
120 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:19
172 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:01
1 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
12:35
2 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
0:02
3 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:03
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:06
5 Edoardo Affini
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:08
6 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
0:08
7 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:16
8 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:17
9 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:18
10 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:19
15 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:26
17 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
0:27
92 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1:05
93 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
1:06
97 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
1:09
114 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:14
120 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:19
172 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
2:01
1 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
2 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
17 pt
3 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
15 pt
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
13 pt
5 Edoardo Affini
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
11 pt
6 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
7 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
9 pt
8 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
8 pt
9 Bruno Armirail
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
7 pt
10 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
6 pt
15 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
1 Mathias Vacek
Lidl - Trek
12:37
2 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
0:06
3 Mauro Schmid
Team Jayco AlUla
0:14
4 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:19
5 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
0:20
6 Filippo Baroncini
UAE Team Emirates
0:24
7 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:25
8 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
0:26
9 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:27
10 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
0:27
36 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
1:12
37 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal Quick-Step
1:17
1 UAE Team Emirates 38:28
2 Lidl - Trek 0:12
3 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:13
4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:24
5 INEOS Grenadiers 0:40
6 Team Jayco AlUla 0:54
7 Bahrain - Victorious 0:59
8 Groupama - FDJ 1:13
9 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:14
10 Soudal Quick-Step 1:15

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