u/Additional-Kick-307

I've been seeing proposals for top-3 Condorcet systems lately and I was wondering about the first round: if a candidate gains an absolute majority in the first round, are they necessarily the Condorcet winner, thus obviating the need for a second round? My gut says yes, and in any case, this seems like a fair streamlining, to use the top-3 Condorcet as a runoff rather than a mandatory second round.