Primoz Roglic got off to the perfect start in his bid to win the Vuelta a España for a third consecutive year by winning the individual time trial in Saturday’s opening stage in Burgos.
Roglic (Team Jumbo-Visma) arrived in Spain in top form after winning the gold medal in the Olympic time trial in Tokyo and set off last, aiming to topple the early frontrunner Alex Aranburu (Astana–PremierTech).
The reigning Vuelta champion finished the 7.1km course in 8:32, beating Aranburu by six seconds to take the red jersey and a healthy early lead in the general classification.
The Jumbo-Visma star was a further two seconds clear of Jan Tratnik (Bahrain-Victorious), who finished in third place, with Tom Scully (EF Education-Nippo) and Jose Cerny (Deceuninck-QuickStep) fourth and fifth respectively.
The Slovenian has a lead of 27 seconds over Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), the 2019 Tour de France winner, who is seen as Roglic’s main rival for this year’s Vuelta title and came 46th on the day. Richard Carapaz, the 2019 Giro d’Italia champion and gold medallist in the Olympic road race, trails Roglic by 25 seconds after coming 35th.
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Sunday’s stage two is a flat 166.7 km route from Caleruega to Burgos.