McNulty impresses in Paris Nice Time Trial

Brandon McNulty put in a very solid display to finish 4th on the stage 3 individual time trial at Paris-Nice.

The 22-year old whipped around the 14.4km course starting and finishing in Gien in a time of 17.43 with a whopping average speed of 48.8kmph, just 9’’ shy of the days winner Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo).

This result now bumps McNulty up the general classification to 4th, just 9’’ off the race lead of Bissegger.

He also lies just behind the Swiss in second place in the youth classification and will wear this jersey for stage 4.

McNulty: “I’m super happy with the TT today, for the first one of the year I think it was a good performance for me and I’m looking forward to building on it the rest of the week. I expect tomorrow to be hard, there will be a few teams to keep an eye on, especially Jumbo for GC, so we’ll give it good shot and see how it goes.”

Tomorrow stage 4 will be the first mountain test of the race going from Chalon-sur-Saône to Chiroubles (187.6k).

Stage 3 results

1.Stefan Bissegger (EF-Education-Nippo) 17.34
2.Remi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quickstep) s.t
3.Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +6’’
4. Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) +9’’

General Classification after stage 3

1.Stefan Bissegger (EF-Education-Nippo) 8.37.11
2.Remi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quickstep) s.t
3.Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +6’’
4. Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) +9’’