Irish time trial champion Ryan Mullen (Trek-Segafredo) took out the stage 3 time trial at the Vuelta a San Juan on Tuesday, covering the 14.4km course in 17:43, 25 second faster than runner-up Fillipo Ganna (UAE Team Emirates). Ganna may have missed out on the stage win, but he collected a more important prize, seizing the overall race lead from Roman Villalobos (Canel's Specialized), who dropped out of the top 15.
Bora-Hansgrohe's Rafal Majka finished third on the stage and now sits second overall, five seconds behind Ganna. Oscar Sevilla (Medellin-Inter was fifth and moved into third overall, 11 seconds behind Ganna.
Mullen started 57th out of 163 riders and had to wait nearly two hours to find out if his time would be good enough.
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"I was really getting bored there. It was along time," he said in theist-stage press conference. "I just pushed as hard as I could push, and in the last five minutes I was like really dipping down and fading. I just had to really hang on. At the itme I crossed the line I didn’t think it would be enough to win because of how I felt at the end. But it turns out it was, and I’m very happy."
Mullen started the day in 107th pace, nearly three minutes down and so didn't figure into the general classification, but Ganna finished fourth on stage 2 and started the its trial sixth overall in large group of riders 10 seconds down. His performance on Tuesday backed up his performance in the uphill finish the day before.
After the race, he said his team pegged him before the stage as the man to take the race lead.
How it unfolded
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
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