Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma) ended the third stage of the Vuelta a Burgos in the first position by winning speed and sprinting Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora) and Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) they were second and third, respectively. The Slovenian is the new race leader with 34″ in second.
white picon marked the advantages in this Burgos round with two groups of six riders arriving more than three minutes ahead of the others.
The third stage started from the town of Sargentes de la Lora, without attacks looking for points in the first ports of play in a stage marked by mountains.
Xabier Berasategui, wearer of the mountain jersey, crowned Alto de la Mota in first place followed by Matteo Fabbro, Laurence Warbasse and Mattia Bais.
After passing the mountain, a group of escapees formed with Warbasse, Bais, Fabbro, Berasategi, García Pierna, Conca and Jesús Ezquerra, joined by Lennard Kamna and Jaakko Hanninen, forming the first escape of the day.
They repeated the same in Alto del Escalerón and Alto de la Eme with Berasategi holding the jersey together while the difference reached 2:44 although at the entrance to Villarcayo, it was reduced to 2:14 when Alex Martín (Eolo Kometa) .
The peloton slowed down but the climb to the Alto de Retuerta -with Berasategi, Bais and Fabbro scoring points- produced more than the race leader expected and the work done by EF Education on the peloton reduced it to 1:19
On the climb to Picón Blanco, Raúl García Pierna (Kern Pharma Team) left the group and behind Hanninen, Bais and Conca, while the peloton caught up with Ezquerra and Berasategi, where the red jersey was difficult.
With 40 kilometers to go, the main group caught all the breakaways ending the break, as Adam Yates attacked with his UAE Team Emirates teammates George Bennett and Jay Vine and only Primoz Roglic (Jumno Visma) and Einar Rubio (Movistar)
Yates tries
Behind Damien Howson (Q36.5) and Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora) joined at the top.
Einer Rubio began to suffer and was caught and 600 after Picón Blanco was crowned Adam Yates attacked and only Roglic and Howson reacted, the three crowned in first place while behind were Bennet, Rubio, Vine, Vendrame and the Spaniard from Astana, Xavier Romo.
On the descent, Vine suffered a crash without consequences and Vlasov caught the leading group, with Roglic setting the pace.
The three chasers, Bennet, Javier Romo and Rubio, formed a group about a minute behind.
On the final climb, Yates added the last 6 points, taking the mountain jersey, Vlasov second, Roglic third and Howson fourth, between the four the stage winner was decided.
The first four were quiet in the last kilometer entering Villarcayo for the second time, Yates tried but Roglic’s top speed prevented the Briton from taking the win and Roglic will wear the leader’s jersey.
Source: La Verdad
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