Vejle – Sønderborg – 182 Km

1 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO 04:11:33
2 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO – VISMA 00:00
3 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN – DECEUNINCK 00:00
4 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00
5 JAKOBSEN Fabio NED QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL TEAM 00:00
6 LAPORTE Christophe FRA JUMBO – VISMA 00:00
7 DAINESE Alberto ITA TEAM DSM 00:00
8 HOFSTETTER Hugo FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
9 EWAN Caleb AUS LOTTO SOUDAL 00:00
10 VAN POPPEL Danny NED BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO – VISMA 09:01:17
2 LAMPAERT Yves BEL QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL TEAM 00:07
3 POGACAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:14
4 PEDERSEN Mads DEN TREK – SEGAFREDO 00:18
5 VAN DER POEL Mathieu NED ALPECIN – DECEUNINCK 00:20
6 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO – VISMA 00:22
7 ROGLIC Primož SLO JUMBO – VISMA 00:23
8 YATES Adam GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:30
9 KÜNG Stefan SUI GROUPAMA – FDJ 00:30
10 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:31

BORA – hansgrohe voll im Plan nach Grand Départ in Dänemark

Auch auf der dritten Etappe der Tour spielte der Wind eine kleinere Rolle als erwartet. M. Cort war der einzige Ausreißer des Tages und erst auf den letzten 30 Kilometern nahm das Rennen richtig Fahrt auf, und die Hektik im Feld entsprechend zu. Auch heute ereignete sich auf den letzten 10 km ein Massensturz, den allerdings alle BORA – hansgrohe Fahrer vermeiden konnten. Generell arbeitete das Team wieder hervorragend an der Spitze des Feldes mit Nils Politt und Marco Haller, um Aleksandr Vlasov zu beschützen. Am Ende holte Danny Van Poppel wieder eine Top-Ten-Platzierung im Sprint. Somit kann BORA – hansgrohe den Grand Départ in Dänemark als Erfolg verbuchen.

Von der Ziellinie
“In der letzten Kurve musste ich etwas bremsen und habe Schwung verloren. Ich hatte zwar immer noch ein gutes Hinterrad, war aber schon zu weit hinten und musste neu antreten. Am Ende ist es wieder ein Top-Ten-Ergebnis und damit bin ich zufrieden. Das Team hat wieder einen super Job gemacht und wir haben Aleks ohne Probleme ins Ziel gebracht. Das hat für uns immer oberste Priorität.” – Danny Van Poppel

“Generell muss man sagen, dass Dänemark der Wahnsinn war. Diese Begeisterung, unglaublich. Teilweise war es schwierig, sich auf das Rennen zu konzentrieren mit all den Leuten an der Strecke. Wir sind absolut im Plan, würde ich sagen. Unser Ziel war nicht mehr als 30 Sekunden zu den anderen Favoriten hier in Dänemark zu verlieren, und das hat geklappt. Die Bedingungen waren auch weniger gefährlich oder die Etappen weniger hektisch, als einige vorher gedacht hätten. Dennoch haben schon ein paar Fahrer wichtige Sekunden verloren und daran sieht man, wie wichtig es ist, von Beginn an zu investieren. Wir haben das vor allem mit Nils und Marco getan und die beiden haben einen hervorragenden Job gemacht die ersten Tage.” – Rolf Aldag, sportlicher Leiter

Groenewegen bounces back in style
Tour de France 2022 | Stage 3 | Vejle > Sønderborg

Three years after his last win at the Tour de France, Dylan Groenewegen claimed his fifth stage victory as he successfully sprinted in Sonderborg, beating Wout van Aert, Jasper Philipsen and Peter Sagan in a tight finish.
It makes it a three out of three for riders from Benelux in the Danish stages as a Dutchman took over from Belgians Yves Lampaert and van Aert, emulating Jan Raas and Walter Planckaert who captured the first three stages in 1978. Van Aert will take the Maillot Jaune with him to France.
Highlights – Stage 3 – #TDF2022

MAGNUS CORT FROM THE GUN
176 riders started stage 3 in Vejle at 13.13. Polka dot jersey wearer Magnus Cort (EF Education-Easypost) attacked from the gun. Nobody followed him. He reached an advantage of 6’40’’ after 20km of racing. Mikkel Honoré for Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl seized the reins of the peloton to set a steady tempo, later relayed by veteran Philippe Gilbert for Lotto-Soudal. Sprinters’ teams maintained the difference around three minutes for most of the race while Cort enjoyed extending his lead in the KOM classification at Koldingveg (km 27) and Heljsminde Strand (km 82), both cat. 4 climbs in which he took one more point.

VAN AERT FIRST OF THE PELOTON AT THE INTERMEDIATE SPRINT
Cort passed the line of the intermediate sprint at Christianfeld (km 90) 1’45’’ before the peloton. Wout van Aert won the sprint of the bunch with Fabio Jakobsen closing in third place, so the Belgian extended his lead in the points classification. Following that effort, the time gap went below one minute (55’’) but the pacers of the pack decided to slow down and let Cort alone in the lead for some more kilometres. The Dane took the sixth and last KOM point up for grab in the stages held in his country and extended his lead in the climbers’ competition. He was reeled in with 52km to go after 130km at the front by himself in front of an enormous crowd.

FIFTH TOUR DE FRANCE VICTORY FOR GROENEWEGEN
There was no breakaway attempt for the remaining of the race. Successively, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl led the bunch in the run in to the bunch sprint after a crash divided the peloton in two parts. All the top sprinters were up there. Michael Morkov was in perfect position in the final 800-metre long straight line but Fabio Jakobsen had lost his wheel, so it was Christophe Laporte who gave the perfect lead out to van Aert. Peter Sagan tried to pass on the right side but the gap was in the middle of the road so Groenewegen who had a great top end speed at his disposal chose the right path to his fifth Tour de France victory (after his successes in 2018 and 2019). It’s his big come back after the horrendous crash of the 2020 Tour de Pologne that involved him and Jakobsen, the first two bunch sprint winners.

Dylan Groenewegen: „Every victory at the Tour de France is special, not only this one“
“I crashed with 9km to go but the team brought me back. Amund Groendahl Jansen put me in a perfect position even though I got boxed. He’s very strong. He was my team-mate before at Jumbo-Visma. He went full gas for me. I took a lot of wind and my legs were tired but I still had enough to sprint to the line. Wout van Aert always joke, saying that if you are not sure of having won, you still claim the victory and you celebrate. That’s what I did. I understood I won from the sport directors screaming in the car. Then I found my father. He follows me for three weeks but usually I don’t see him and today he was there, right in front of me. It was special to share that moment with him and make him happy too. My family supported me greatly after what happened [the crash at the 2020 Tour de Pologne that resulted in a ban for him]. My new team has put a lot of faith in me and a great train to lead me out. Every victory at the Tour de France is special, not only this one.”
@ASO