GREENVILLE, S.C.—David Zabriskie won his third straight USA Cycling professional time trial championship on Saturday.
The 29-year-old from Salt Lake City is the only cyclist to win the pro-only event since its inception in 2006.
Zabriskie completed the course in 40 minutes, 39.40 seconds, finishing 5 seconds faster than runner up Tom Zirbel, of Boulder, Colo.
Christian Vande Velde, also of Boulder and a Garmin-Chipotle teammate of Zabriskie, was third 10 seconds behind the winner.
Zabriskie finished 12th at the time trial event in the Beijing Olympics. He was pleased with the win, particularly that it came only three months after fracturing a vertebrae in a crash at the Giro d’Italia in May.
The time trial was Zabriskie’s fourth national title. He also won the event in 2004 when both pros and amateurs competed together in the national championships.
