Welcome to Portugal for their hilly NC. Paulinho and Borges the favourites.
Berg Cycles has been pulling the strings in the peloton from the very start and never gave the early breakaway a chance. 24 km left, 3 hills to go.
Borges doesn’t want to wait for his sprint and attacks on the penultimate hill! 10.5 km to go as he has a 20” gap over the peloton, where Berg Cycles has five men in the first five positions.
He gets caught with 4 km to go and you would think it’s game over. Teammate Oliveira launches him into the final km, he has a small gap over the other favourites!
And he holds onto that gap! Borges the new Portuguese NC, with Paulinho and Guerreiro winning silver and bronze.
Result
1
Bruno Borges
Duolingo
1h24'06
2
Pedro Miguel Paulinho
Berg Cycles
+ 10
3
Ruben Guerreiro
Farfetch Pro Cycling
s.t.
4
Rui Costa
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
5
Joni Brandao
Berg Cycles
s.t.
6
Rafael Silva
Rakuten Pro Cycling
s.t.
7
Luis Afonso
Berg Cycles
s.t.
8
Amaro Antunes
Berg Cycles
s.t.
9
Marcio Portela
Berg Cycles
s.t.
10
Fabio Silvestre
Berg 2
s.t.
11
Ricardo Vilela
Berg Cycles
s.t.
12
Joao Rodrigues
Generali
s.t.
13
Frederico Figueiredo
Farfetch Pro Cycling
s.t.
14
Rafael Reis
King Power
s.t.
15
Domingos Goncalves
Berg Cycles
s.t.
16
Jose Fernandes
Generali
s.t.
17
Rui Oliveira
Duolingo
s.t.
18
Joao Almeida
Berg Cycles
s.t.
19
Bruno Silva
Sauber Petronas Racing
s.t.
20
Jose Goncalves
Team UBS
s.t.
21
Antonio Barbio
Duolingo
s.t.
22
Gaspar Goncalves
Farfetch Pro Cycling
+ 1'26
23
Rui Pedro Vinhas
GCN Racing
+ 2'03
24
Tiago Machado
Aegon - Peroni
+ 2'52
25
Oscar Avelino
Aramco DP
s.t.
Portugese Time Trial Championship
Team UBS’ Goncalves the favourite here, will he deliver?
Double for Duolingo? Barbio currently the best time of 1h05’50”. Two riders to come.
No double for Duolingo. Reis improves Barbio’s time by eleven seconds.
But it’s easy peasy lemon squeezy for favourite Goncalves, who is another 50” faster than the King Power rider.
Portugese Road Championship 
