Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic sealed a third successive Vuelta a Espana title after wrapping up the final time-trial stage on Sunday. He becomes the third rider to have won the Spanish Tour three times after Tony Rominger of Switzerland (1992, 1993, 1994) and Spain’s Roberto Heras (2003, 2004, 2005). The Jumbo-Visma rider finished 14 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Magnus Cort Nielsen, in the 20.5 mile time-trial at Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, the 21st and final stage. That gifted Roglic the biggest overall winning margin, of 4:42, since 1997. Spain’s Movistar rider Enric Mas, whom Roglic lapped on the time trial — a discipline in which he is Olympic champion, finished second, with Australian Jack Haig of Bahrain Victorious rounding out the podium.

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LA VUELTA STAGE 21 RESULTS

1	ROGLIČ Primož	Team Jumbo-Visma	44:02
2	CORT Magnus	EF Education – Nippo	0:14
3	ARENSMAN Thymen	Team DSM	0:52
4	ČERNÝ Josef	Deceuninck – Quick Step	1:16
5	HAGA Chad	Team DSM	1:43
6	BERNAL Egan	INEOS Grenadiers	1:49
7	GROßSCHARTNER Felix	BORA – hansgrohe	1:52
8	KRUIJSWIJK Steven	Team Jumbo-Visma	1:52
9	MAS Enric	Movistar Team	2:04
10	IZAGIRRE Ion	Astana – Premier Tech	2:06

OVERALL STANDINGS

1	ROGLIČ Primož	Team Jumbo-Visma	83:55:29
2	MAS Enric	Movistar Team	4:42
3	HAIG Jack	Bahrain – Victorious	7:40
4	YATES Adam	INEOS Grenadiers	9:06
5	MÄDER Gino	Bahrain – Victorious	11:33
6	BERNAL Egan	INEOS Grenadiers	13:27
7	DE LA CRUZ David	UAE-Team Emirates	18:33
8	KUSS Sepp	Team Jumbo-Visma	18:55
9	MARTIN Guillaume	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	20:27
10	GROßSCHARTNER Felix	BORA – hansgrohe	22:22

 

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