Third stage of the Tour of The Alps, 162.5km from Ritten to Brentonico San Valentino with 2 demanding GPMs scheduled: Lake Cei and the 15.4km long climb leading to the finish line with an average gradient of 7.5%.

The group gives ample margin to a breakaway made up of 12 riders: Jasha Sütterlin (Bahrain – Victorious), Juri Hollmann (Movistar Team), Andrea Vendrame (AG2R Citroën Team), Lorenzo Milesi (Team DSM), Joe Dombrowski (Astana Qazaqstan Team) , Riccardo Lucca (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè), Txomin Juaristi (Eusaltel – Euskadi), Giovanni Carboni (Equipo Kern Pharma), Mattia Bais (EOLO-Kometa), Lukas Pöstlberger and Alexander Hajek (Austria) and Liam Johnston (Trinity Racing). At the beginning of the last climb he tries to take advantage   Dombrowski   who detaches the breakaway companions, while BORA Hansgrohe works as a group to favor the attack of   Kamna   then followed by   Cepeda . At -3.5km the two reach and distance Dombrowski, while only ten remain in the main group. 2 km from the finish line, the leader of the general classification takes off   Geoghegan   Hart , only Haig, Carthy, Fortunato and Vlasov can resist him. Kamna to avoid the reunion tries personal action in the last hundreds of meters, it is the decisive attack: Cepeda collapses and finishes third anticipated by Vlasov who regulates the group of the best.

Tao Geoghegan Hart remains firmly in command of the standings with a 22” lead over Carthy and 28” over Haig.

  ARRIVAL ORDER:

1      KÄMNA Lennard BORA - hansgrohe 4:06:13

2      VLASOV Aleksandr BORA - hansgrohe 0:04

3   CEPEDA Jefferson Alexander EF Education-EasyPost ,,

4      GEOGHEGAN HART Tao INEOS Grenadiers ,,

5      HAIG Jack Bahrain - Victorious,,

6      CARTHY Hugh EF Education-EasyPost ,,

7      LUCKY Lorenzo EOLO-Kometa 0:10

8      RICCITELLO Matthew Israel - Premier Tech 0:32

9   POOLE Max Team DSM ,,

10 SIVAKOV Pavel INEOS Grenadiers ,,

Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency