Mark Cavendish finished towards the back of the field on stage three of Spain's Tour of Andalucia on Tuesday.
The Manxman was nearly 10 minutes behind the winner in 79th place as Oscar Freire took his second consecutive stage.
He finished ahead of Grega Bole and Simon Gerrans over 162 kilometres.
Sergio Pardilla maintained the overall lead ahead of today’s 10.9km time trial.

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