2021 Tour de Suisse Stage 3 Results & Recap
Stage 3 of the 2021 Tour de Suisse is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Mathieu van der Poel wins stage 3
Mathieu van der Poel won his second consecutive stage in a row today after producing a powerful sprint in the uphill rise to the line at Pfaffnau on stage 3. The Dutch champion handily outmatched Christophe Laporte (Cofidis), who finished in second place. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) took third.
“I had a good day again and I wanted to make the race hard. Like yesterday on the final climb but it was still around 30-40 guys,” said Van der Poel. “I saw the sprint the first time around the finish and I saw that it suited me quite well so I went for that.
Van der Poel now leads the Tour de Suisse, but just by a hair. The cyclocross star is ahead of Alaphillippe by just one second. Stefan KĂĽng (Groupama-FDJ) is third, four seconds behind Van der Poel.
“I’ll defend the lead for as long as possible, maybe, but it will be difficult,” Van der Poel said. “Maybe tomorrow is an opportunity still but in the mountains it’s too hard for me. Tomorrow is kind of similar to these last two days but for sure they won’t make it easy. Today wasn’t easy. We had to do a really big effort with the whole team and again it was impressive again from them. Tomorrow, maybe it’s possible. Someone has to win so maybe it’s me.”
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