Brandon McNulty blasted the opening stage 1 time trial to assert the primary crimson chief’s jersey of the 2024 Vuelta a España on Saturday. The American TT champion clocked a time of 12:35 on the 12km route from Lisbon to Oeiras.
Czech TT champion Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) sits second total at two seconds down, and leads the most effective younger rider classification. Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) is third, three seconds again.
Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) is fourth, at six seconds down whereas Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease A Bike) and Josh Tarling (Ineos-Grenadiers) at each at 8 seconds in fifth and sixth place respectively. Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) follows in seventh, at 16 seconds down.
Three-time winner Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was the most effective of the pre-race favourites and sits in eighth place, 17 seconds down.
Rounding out the highest 10 are Bruno Amirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) at 18 seconds, and McNulty’s teammate João Almeida at 19 seconds.
As for the opposite pre-race favourites, Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) sits in thirteenth place, 22 seconds again. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) is 34 seconds down, Enric Mas (Movistar) follows at 30 seconds. Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) and Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) are 40 seconds and 46 seconds down respectively.
Ben O’Connor (Decathlon-AG2R) is 52 seconds in arrears, defending champion Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease A Bike) is an extra one second again whereas Mikel Landa (T Rex Quick-Step) has a 1:05 deficit.
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