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Carlos Florido
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Gustavo Veloso won the Lisbon time trial and climbed to second place in the general classification, achieving a double in Porto
Amaro Antunes, 29, is the winner of the Volta a Portugal and completed an unprecedented fifth of victories at W52-FC Porto, surpassing the serious triumphs of the whites and blues between 1959 and 1962 and Tavira between 2008 and 2011. For W52, an ally of FC Porto since 2016, this is truly the sixth consecutive achievement, having won in 2015.
In yellow from the second stage, when he arrived isolated to the top of Senhora da Graça, the Algarvian who had been second in the 2017 Tour never gave time to his competitors, resisting today the excellent time trial of his colleague Gustavo Veloso, who won the last. stage, with 17.7 km in Lisbon.
With the triumph in his specialty – he has 12 victories in Tour stages, six of them in “chronos” -, Veloso climbed to second position in the general classification, dethroning Frederico Figueiredo, from Atum General-Tavira and who finished third, 53 seconds. in front of. Jóni Brandão (Efapel) finished the Tour in fourth place, 1m23s behind Amaro.
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