Feature Report: Tour of Britain Stage 3

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Team Sky’s Elia Viviani sprinted to his second win of the Aviva Tour of Britain, heading to victory at Floors Castle as Juan Jose Lobato moved into the race leader’s Aviva Yellow Jersey.

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Feature Report: Tour of Britain Stage 3

Stage 3 Cockermouth to Kelso | Tuesday 8 September

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Team Sky’s Elia Viviani sprinted to his second win of the Aviva Tour of Britain, heading to victory at Floors Castle as Juan Jose Lobato moved into the race leader’s Aviva Yellow Jersey.

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The Movistar Team rider took second on the road behind Viviani, and moved into the race lead after overnight leader Petr Vakoc crashed with just over three kilometres to go, losing ten minutes.

Having won Stage One in Wrexham on Sunday with no room for celebration, at Kelso the Italian had time to celebrate in style his victory outside the home of the Duke of Roxburghe.

Viviani kept his cool in a complicated finish after the peloton had caught a dangerous three man break consisting of Tyler Farrar, Marcin Bialoblocki and Matt Cronshaw with about five kilometres remaining.

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As the peloton headed towards the twisty, fast finish into the grounds of Floors Castle, Lotto Soudal seemed to be dictating proceedings at the head of the bunch with Andre Greipel providing a lead out for Jens Debusschere.

Viviani, who had taken station just behind the Lotto Soudal train, was best positioned to take advantage. He accelerated smoothly and won comfortably, with his arms aloft, from Lobato with Matteo Trentin in third place.

Lobato’s lead at the top of the standings is ten seconds over MTN Qhubeka’s Edvald Boasson Hagen, with Floris Gerts of the BMC Racing Team another two seconds back. Team Sky’s Wout Poels lies fourth, while last year’s winner Dylan Van Baarle is fifth, just 13 seconds off the race lead.

“When the break at the end went out from 2-minutes 30 to 4-minutes 20 I did wonder if we would pull it back for a sprint finish,” admitted Elia Viviani afterwards. “The problem was that we needed to do the last climb very quickly and if we did that I was not sure if I would be able to stay in the first group of not.

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The break led by Russell Downing (Cult Energy) from Matt Cronshaw (Madison Genesis), Jonny McEvoy (NFTO), Tyler Farrar and Marcin Bialoblocki (One Pro Cycling)

“We decided to try and when your teammates work so hard – Peter Kennaugh, Ian Stannard, Andy Fenn – in the front you try your very best. Then at the end I saw that Mark Cavendish was not in the group after the crash and Andre Greipel was working for a teammate so thought perhaps it is a good sprint for me, it was a stage I can win.

“Andy Fenn positioned me perfectly and then I had to wait a little bit. After nearly 220km it is not the same as 170km, you don’t have the same legs. It was a very good test for the World and the climb at full gas with 20km to go was also very good.”

The win in the grounds of Floors Castle is Viviani’s second Aviva Tour of Britain victory at a Scottish castle, having also triumphed at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries & Galloway in 2013.
In addition to becoming the third race leader in three days, Lobato also keeps the Chain Reactions Cycles Points Jersey.

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Three of the jerseys at the start of the stage, Peter Williams (One Pro Cycling, Tom Stewart (Madison Genesis) and Petr Vakoc (Etixx Quickstep)

“My main objective is still stage wins, if I keep the yellow jersey that will be a bonus. Our plan has been to race each stage day by day until the hilltop finish on Thursday and then we will have a look at how the GC is. The Tour of Britain is not an easy race to defend the jersey but we will have a better idea of the race by the end of Thursday stage.

Lobato praised Britain’s Alex Dowsett, who is based in Essex, for the work on his behalf today ensuring he was in a good position to contest the finish but isn’t sure that local knowledge was the factor: “I’m not sure there is that much local advantage to be had with Alex Dowsett – he is from the south of the England, not the North, he doesn’t know these roads!”

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Mark Cavendish, Petr Vakoc and Peter Kennaugh, Photo Michelle Rudd.

Elsewhere there was another promising ride from young Welsh rider Owain Duoll, this time finishing sixth, which also takes him to sixth on the Aviva General Classification. That not only makes him the Premier Inn Best British Rider at present but with Lobato wearing the Aviva Yellow Jersey he also inherits the Chain Reaction Cycles Points Jersey to wear on Stage Four from Edinburgh to Blyth.

Like most of the riders in Team WIGGINS Doull’s main focus is the Team Pursuit on the track at Rio 2016 but he has always shown real class on the road and will be one of the riders to watch in the Under-23 road events in Richmond, Virginia, later this month where he will be contesting both the Road Race and the Time Trial at the World Championship.

“I didn’t know quite what to expect coming into the race to be honest,” says Doull. “We had done quite a big block of training at altitude in Livigno so I was carrying quite a bit of fatigue and I thought I might be lacking a bit of top end speed.

“It’s been a bit surreal having Sir Bradley pulling on the front for me. It adds a bit of pressure but good pressure I guess. I’ve also been sharing a room with him so I’ve been thrown in at the deep end a bit. It’s a good laugh to be fair. Before this year I didn’t really know Brad so you have to pinch yourself sometimes because he was my hero growing up.

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“We exist as team with the Rio team pursuit as our big aim but we do like to get stuck in and its nice in such a high profile race to show what we are all about.”

In the YodelDirect Sprint competition Pete Williams leads Pim Ligthart an Aidis Kruopis by one point with the latter enjoying a profitable day having got into the early break, while Tom Stewart also retained his lead in the SKODA King of the Mountain competition. MTN Qhubeka’s Tyler Farrar claimed the Stage Three Rouleur Combativity Award.

Stage Four sees the Aviva Tour of Britain visit Edinburgh for the first time in the history of the modern Tour, starting from Holyrood Park at 10am before heading through East Lothian and the Scottish Borders for the finish at Blyth in Northumberland.

Highlights of Stage Three will be shown on ITV4 at 8pm on Tuesday 8 September with a repeat at 11.55am on Wednesday 9 September.

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Tom Stewart of Madison Genesis held on to his KoM jersey

The Aviva Tour of Britain is British Cycling’s premier road cycling event giving cycling fans the opportunity to see the world’s best teams and riders competing on their door step.

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In the Sprints jersey, Peter Williams of One Pro Cycling, who fell today and looked uneasy as he rode to the team bus.

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Best British rider Owain Doull in sixth on the stage.

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The race leaves Cockermouth at 10.15 today

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Quickstep chase the break before other teams moved to the front and upped the pace to bring it back in the closing kilometres

Stage 3
1 VIVIANI Elia SKY 05:08:18
2 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose MOV ST
3 TRENTIN Matteo EQS ST
4 ENGER Sondre Holst IAM ST
5 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTS ST
6 DOULL Owain WGN ST
7 BETTIOL Alberto TCG ST
8 BRIGGS Graham JLT ST
9 PETERS Alex GBR ST
10 POELS Wouter SKY ST
11 VAN BAARLE Dylan TCG ST
12 GERTS Floris BMC ST
13 GULDHAMMER Rasmus CLT ST
14 STYBAR Zdenek EQS ST
15 HART Tao Geoghegan GBR ST
16 MORKOV Michael TCS ST
17 SVENDGAARD Michael Carbel CLT ST
18 JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt MTN ST
19 BARKER Yanto ONE ST
20 FERNANDEZ Ruben MOV ST
21 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald MTN ST
22 TANKINK Bram TLJ ST
23 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka MOV ST
24 TENNANT Andrew WGN ST
25 KUENG Stefan BMC ST
26 WYSS Danilo BMC ST
27 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat MOV ST
28 DIBBEN Jonathan WGN ST
29 ZEPUNTKE Ruben TCG ST
30 KRUIJSWIJK Steven TLJ ST
31 MEURISSE Xandro SKT ST
32 TOLHOEK Antwan TCS ST
33 TEUNS Dylan BMC ST
34 PAUWELS Serge MTN ST
35 SWIFT Ben SKY ST
36 SÖRENSEN Chris Anker TCS ST
37 DENIFL Stefan IAM ST
38 LOZANO RIBA David TNN ST
39 CIOLEK Gerald MTN ST
40 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN ST
41 PLANET Charles TNN ST
42 CULLAIGH Gabriel GBR ST
43 PHINNEY Taylor BMC ST
44 SIEBERG Marcel LTS ST
45 ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor MOV ST
46 KISERLOVSKI Robert TCS ST
47 KENNAUGH Peter SKY ST
48 QUAADE Rasmus Christian CLT ST
49 LANGEVELD Sebastian TCG ST
50 BIBBY Ian NPC ST
51 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE 10
52 LOWSLEY WILLIAMS James NPC 11
53 GREIPEL André LTS ST
54 MULLEN Ryan TCG 13
55 OLIPHANT Evan RAL ST
56 MORTENSEN Martin CLT ST
57 HUNT Joshua ONE ST
58 WEGMANN Fabian CLT 16
59 FENN Andrew SKY 22
60 THOMPSON Michael WGN 24
61 DE BIE Sean LTS 26
62 STANNARD Ian SKY ST
63 VANGENECHTEN Jonas IAM 32
64 LIGTHART Pim LTS 35
65 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS 37
66 SAGAN Juraj TCS ST
67 MOSES Thomas JLT 39
68 HANDLEY Richard JLT ST
69 BOUWMAN Koen TLJ ST
70 SLATER Alistair SKT ST
71 DUNBAR Eddie NPC 01:20
72 WIGGINS Bradley WGN ST
73 RENSHAW Mark EQS ST
74 DOWSETT Alex MOV ST
75 CLEMENT Stef IAM 01:30
76 CHEVRIER Clement IAM ST
77 SCULLY Thomas MGT ST
78 LAMPIER Steven RAL ST
79 DOMAGALSKI Karol RAL ST
80 PARTRIDGE Robert NPC ST
81 HOUSE Kristian JLT 01:39
82 CUMING Michael JLT ST
83 FARRAR Tyler MTN ST
84 MARANGONI Alan TCG 02:26
85 MCNALLY Mark MGT 02:51
86 STEWART Thomas MGT ST
87 HOLMES Matthew MGT ST
88 CAVENDISH Mark EQS 0
89 WILLIAMS Peter ONE 03:06
90 APPLEBY Dale NPC 03:25
91 CARTHY Hugh GBR ST
92 DAVIES Scott GBR ST
93 CRONSHAW Mathew MGT ST
94 PERON Andrea TNN 07:18
95 FRISON Frederik LTS ST
96 HAWDON Andrew RAL ST
97 SISKEVICIUS Paulius SKT ST
98 HENTTALA Joonas TNN ST
99 PYM George RAL ST
100 DUNNE Conor SKT ST
101 HARPER George ONE ST
102 WOOD Oliver GBR ST
103 DE MESMAEKER Kevin TNN ST
104 KNEISKY Morgan RAL ST
105 GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando EQS 10:00
106 VAKOC Petr EQS ST
107 KRUOPIS Aidis SKT 10:22
108 WILSON Jack SKT ST
109 TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel MTN ST
110 OPIE Chris ONE ST
111 CLANCY Edward JLT ST
112 MCEVOY Jonathan NPC ST
113 KLUGE Roger IAM ST
114 DOWNING Russell CLT ST

OVERALL
1 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose MOV 13:37:04
2 BOASSON HAGEN Edvald MTN 10
3 GERTS Floris BMC 12
4 POELS Wouter SKY 13
5 VAN BAARLE Dylan TCG ST
6 DOULL Owain WGN 14
7 BRIGGS Graham JLT ST
8 GULDHAMMER Rasmus CLT ST
9 TRENTIN Matteo EQS 18
10 PAUWELS Serge MTN 20
11 FERNANDEZ Ruben MOV 22
12 STYBAR Zdenek EQS ST
13 TEUNS Dylan BMC ST
14 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTS ST
15 HART Tao Geoghegan GBR ST
16 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka MOV ST
17 ZEPUNTKE Ruben TCG ST
18 KISERLOVSKI Robert TCS ST
19 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat MOV ST
20 KRUIJSWIJK Steven TLJ ST
21 LOZANO RIBA David TNN ST
22 SÖRENSEN Chris Anker TCS ST
23 MEGIAS LEAL Javier TNN ST
24 MEURISSE Xandro SKT ST
25 QUAADE Rasmus Christian CLT ST
26 BIBBY Ian NPC ST
27 ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor MOV ST
28 MORKOV Michael TCS 26
29 SWIFT Ben SKY ST
30 KENNAUGH Peter SKY 34
31 PHINNEY Taylor BMC ST
32 TANKINK Bram TLJ 35
33 PETERS Alex GBR 43
34 LANGEVELD Sebastian TCG ST
35 KUENG Stefan BMC 45
36 DENIFL Stefan IAM 47
37 WYSS Danilo BMC 49
38 DE BIE Sean LTS 01:00
39 MOSES Thomas JLT 01:01
40 HANDLEY Richard JLT ST
41 BETTIOL Alberto TCG 01:13
42 BOUWMAN Koen TLJ ST
43 SLATER Alistair SKT ST
44 GREIPEL André LTS 02:05
45 CLEMENT Stef IAM 02:13
46 SIEBERG Marcel LTS 02:53
47 MARANGONI Alan TCG 03:47
48 LIGTHART Pim LTS 04:04
49 DAVIES Scott GBR 04:14
50 ENGER Sondre Holst IAM 05:00
51 HUNT Joshua ONE 07:17
52 MCNALLY Mark MGT 07:43
53 TOLHOEK Antwan TCS 08:18
54 VAKOC Petr EQS 09:55
55 GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando EQS 10:21
56 APPLEBY Dale NPC 10:29
57 FRISON Frederik LTS 11:25
58 MCEVOY Jonathan NPC 11:37
59 CARTHY Hugh GBR 11:58
60 CHEVRIER Clement IAM 12:26
61 CUMING Michael JLT 12:54
62 HARPER George ONE 17:09
63 DOMAGALSKI Karol RAL 20:10
64 VIVIANI Elia SKY 21:38
65 CAVENDISH Mark EQS 21:52
66 SVENDGAARD Michael Carbel CLT 21:58
67 JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt MTN ST
68 BARKER Yanto ONE ST
69 CULLAIGH Gabriel GBR 22:06
70 PLANET Charles TNN ST
71 TENNANT Andrew WGN ST
72 CIOLEK Gerald MTN ST
73 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE 22:12
74 LOWSLEY WILLIAMS James NPC 22:17
75 OLIPHANT Evan RAL 22:19
76 MULLEN Ryan TCG ST
77 MORTENSEN Martin CLT ST
78 WEGMANN Fabian CLT 22:22
79 TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel MTN ST
80 VANGENECHTEN Jonas IAM 22:30
81 DIBBEN Jonathan WGN ST
82 STANNARD Ian SKY 22:32
83 TRUSOV Nikolay TCS 22:43
84 SAGAN Juraj TCS ST
85 THOMPSON Michael WGN 22:49
86 RENSHAW Mark EQS 23:18
87 DOWSETT Alex MOV 23:26
88 FARRAR Tyler MTN 23:34
89 LAMPIER Steven RAL 23:36
90 SCULLY Thomas MGT ST
91 HOUSE Kristian JLT 23:42
92 WIGGINS Bradley WGN 23:47
93 DUNBAR Eddie NPC 23:50
94 PARTRIDGE Robert NPC 24:07:00
95 STEWART Thomas MGT 24:55:00
96 HOLMES Matthew MGT 24:57:00
97 FENN Andrew SKY 24:58:00
98 WILLIAMS Peter ONE 25:03:00
99 CRONSHAW Mathew MGT 25:31:00
100 PERON Andrea TNN 29:16:00
101 WOOD Oliver GBR 29:24:00
102 SISKEVICIUS Paulius SKT ST
103 DUNNE Conor SKT 29:32:00
104 HAWDON Andrew RAL 29:36:00
105 PYM George RAL 29:38:00
106 KNEISKY Morgan RAL 29:39:00
107 HENTTALA Joonas TNN 30:55:00
108 DE MESMAEKER Kevin TNN 31:54:00
109 OPIE Chris ONE 32:20:00
110 DOWNING Russell CLT 32:25:00
111 KRUOPIS Aidis SKT 32:39:00
112 KLUGE Roger IAM 34:00:00
113 WILSON Jack SKT 34:12:00
114 CLANCY Edward JLT 34:58:00
KoM
1 STEWART Thomas MGT 25
2 BIBBY Ian NPC 23
3 HOUSE Kristian JLT 20
4 FARRAR Tyler MTN 18
5 WILLIAMS Peter ONE 17
6 VAKOC Petr EQS 17
7 CRONSHAW Mathew MGT 14
8 DUNNE Conor SKT 14
9 KENNAUGH Peter SKY 13
10 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE 13

Sprint1 WILLIAMS Peter ONE 9
2 LIGTHART Pim LTS 8
3 KRUOPIS Aidis SKT 8
4 DUNNE Conor SKT 7
5 BIALOBLOCKI Marcin ONE 4
6 HOUSE Kristian JLT 3
7 FARRAR Tyler MTN 3
8 DOWNING Russell CLT 3
9 GERTS Floris BMC 2
10 PAUWELS Serge MTN 2
Points
1 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose MOV 39
2 DOULL Owain WGN 32
3 VIVIANI Elia SKY 30
4 TRENTIN Matteo EQS 24
5 DEBUSSCHERE Jens LTS 20
6 BRIGGS Graham JLT 17

Team
1 MOVISTAR TEAM 15:24:54
2 TEAM SKY ST
3 TEAM CANNONDALE – GARMIN ST
4 TEAM WIGGINS ST
5 BMC RACING TEAM ST
6 GREAT BRITAIN ST

 

 

 

 

 

 

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STAGES
Stage 1 | Sunday 6 September Beaumaris, Anglesey to Wrexham, 177.7km
Stage 2 | Monday 7 September Clitheroe to Colne, 159.3km
Stage 3 | Tuesday 8 September Cockermouth to Floors Castle, Kelso, 216km
Stage 4 | Wednesday 9 September Edinburgh to Blyth, 217.4km
Stage 5 | Thursday 10 September Prudhoe to Hartside, 166.2km
Stage 6 | Friday 11 September Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, 192.8km
Stage 7 | Saturday 12 September Fakenham to Ipswich, 227.4km
Stage 8 | Sunday 13 September London stage presented by TfL, 86.8km

TEAMS

UCI WorldTeams
BMC Racing (USA)
Etixx Quick-Step (Belgium)
IAM Cycling (Switzerland)
Lotto Soudal (Belgium)
Movistar Team (Spain)
Team Cannondale – Garmin (USA)
Team Lotto NL Jumbo (Netherlands)
Team Sky (Great Britain)
Tinkoff – Saxo (Russia)

UCI Pro Continental teams
Cult Energy Pro Cycling (Denmark)
MTN Qhubeka (South Africa)
Team Novo Nordisk (USA)

UCI Continental teams
An Post Chain Reaction (Ireland)
JLT Condor presented by Mavic (Great Britain)
Madison Genesis (Great Britain)
NFTO (Great Britain)
ONE Pro Cycling (Great Britain)
Team Raleigh GAC (Great Britain)
Team WIGGINS (Great Britain)

National Teams
Great Britain Cycling Team

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