Tour de France 2007/3. stage

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Stage 3
Result of the 3rd stage
Stage winner Fabian Cancellara 6:36:15 h
(35.811 km / h)
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

Intermediate sprints

The main field shortly after the start in Waregem with Fabian Cancellara in the yellow jersey

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.