Tour de France 2007/3. stage
Result of the 3rd stage | |||
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Stage winner | Fabian Cancellara | 6:36:15 h (35.811 km / h) |
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Second | Erik Zabel | equal time | |
Third | Danilo Napolitano | equal time | |
Fourth | Tom Boonen | equal time | |
fifth | Robert Hunter | equal time | |
Sixth | Robert Forster | equal time | |
seventh | Robbie McEwen | equal time | |
Eighth | Bernhard Eisel | equal time | |
Ninth | Mark Cavendish | equal time | |
Tenth | Heinrich Haussler | equal time | |
Most combative driver | Matthieu Ladagnous | ||
Intermediate results after the 3rd stage | |||
Yellow jersey | Fabian Cancellara | 15:12:08 h | |
Second | Andreas Klöden | + 0:33 min | |
Third | David Millar | + 0:41 min | |
Green jersey | Tom Boonen | 80 p. | |
Second | Robbie McEwen | 74 P. | |
Third | Erik Zabel | 62 P. | |
Dotted jersey | Stéphane Augé | 8 p. | |
Second | David Millar | 5 p. | |
Third | Freddy Bichot | 3 p. | |
White jersey | Vladimir Gusev | 15:12:53 h | |
Second | Thomas Dekker | + 0:06 min | |
Third | Benoît Vaugrenard | + 0:07 min | |
Team evaluation | Team Astana | 45:38:42 h | |
Second | Team CSC | + 0:02 min | |
Third | Discovery Channel | + 0:05 min |
The 3rd stage of the Tour de France 2007 on July 10th was 236.5 kilometers long and took the riders from Waregem , Belgium , the destination of the semi-classic Across Flanders , to Compiègne , the starting point of the spring classic Paris – Roubaix , back to France . It was the longest section of the tour and partly ran over the route from Paris – Roubaix. With Fontaine-au-Bois , where the first intermediate sprint of the tour took place on French soil, the tour entourage passed the hometown of the former tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc .
Right at the beginning, after six kilometers driven, the two Frenchmen Matthieu Ladagnous and Nicolas Vogondy separated from the main field. Vogondy had followed the attack of his compatriot. Already in the first intermediate sprint at 33.5 kilometers, the two had a lead of 11:35 minutes. Subsequently, the duo also expanded their lead, as the teams in the peloton showed no ambition to catch up with the outliers. Only when the gap increased to over 13 minutes did some of the Team CSC riders gather at the front of the peloton and increase the race pace. But they stopped the pursuit as soon as the gap fell below the eight-minute mark. The gap then leveled off at around eight to ten minutes before the teams from Crédit Agricole and Quick Step got down to speed work and halved the gap within a few kilometers.
When Stéphane Augé and Frederik Willems pulled out of the peloton 61 kilometers from the finish , the peloton's speed increased again slightly. The chasing duo caught up with the leaders after just 8.5 kilometers. The newly formed quartet had a lead of about 2:40 minutes at this point, which, after they had expanded it again slightly, consolidated at about 3:20 minutes. Only when the sprinters' teams took over the organization and the pace in the peloton 25 kilometers from the finish line did the breakaway's lead melt away.
Willems tried to break away from the escape group three kilometers before the finish line after the lead had fallen below the 30-second mark. However, this as well as another attack remained unsuccessful. The breakaway attempt ended five hundred meters from the finish when Fabian Cancellara overtook the quartet. Ultimately, time trial specialist Cancellara secured his second victory, after winning the prologue , ahead of sprinters Erik Zabel and Danilo Napolitano .
As in the previous stages, there were no changes in leadership in the overall, junior and team standings. Due to the time bonus at the finish, Cancellara was able to extend its lead in the overall standings to 33 seconds over Andreas Klöden . In the point classification, too, Tom Boonen kept the lead from Robbie McEwen . In the classification for the mountain prize, the French Stéphane Augé took over the dotted jersey with eight points after winning the only mountain classification of the day.
tasks
- 119 Tomas Vaitkus - before the start of the stage, a thumb broke after a fall on the 2nd stage
Intermediate sprints
1st intermediate sprint in Tournai (33.5 km) (24 m above sea level)
First | Nicolas Vogondy | 6 p. And 6 s |
Second | Matthieu Ladagnous | 4 p. And 4 s |
Third | Mikel Astarloza | 2 P. and 2 s |
2nd intermediate sprint in Fontaine-au-Bois (kilometer 104.5) (171 m above sea level)
First | Matthieu Ladagnous | 6 p. And 6 s |
Second | Nicolas Vogondy | 4 p. And 4 s |
Third | Romain Feillu | 2 P. and 2 s |
3rd intermediate sprint in Achery (km 167.5) (78 m above sea level)
First | Nicolas Vogondy | 6 p. And 6 s |
Second | Matthieu Ladagnous | 4 p. And 4 s |
Third | Mikel Astarloza | 2 P. and 2 s |
Mountain ratings
Côte de Blérancourt , Category 4 (km 202.5) (187 m above sea level; 1.0 km at 4.6%)
First | Stéphane Augé | 3 p. |
Second | Matthieu Ladagnous | 2 p. |
Third | Frederik Willems | 1 P. |