Back to Portugal: Porto player Gustavo Veloso is the first leader



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Galego from W52-FC Porto won the Fafe prologue, ahead of Rafael Reis (Feirense) and another Porto player, Daniel Mestre

Gustavo Veloso is the first yellow jersey of the Volta a Portugal, after winning the Fafe prologue, an individual time trial of 7 kilometers, in 9m39s, leaving a second Rafael Reis, who this year runs for Feirense.

In an exercise in which the W52-FC Porto veteran was a specialist, Jóni Brandão was sixth and João Rodrigues eighth, but both were less than 8 seconds away.

Veloso, winner of the Tour in 2014 and 2015 and third in 2019, was the fastest in the seven kilometers of the prologue, with a time of 9.39 minutes, a second less than Reis, in second place, and the partner in “Daniel Master of Dragons, third, in a classification that reflects the general.

The new yellow jersey won a stage for the eleventh time on the Tour, joining it with the triumphs of 2006, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, on a day when his teammate João Rodrigues, winner in 2019, was eighth, eight seconds , with Jóni Brandão (Efapel), second in the last season, in sixth, seven seconds.

The Spanish veteran wears the first yellow of the special edition of the race on Monday, in the first stage, the longest of this year, which joins Montalegre with Viana do Castelo, at the top of Santa Luzia, over 180 kilometers .



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