2022 Giro d'Italia Stage 3 Results & Recap
Stage 3 of the 2022 Giro d'Italia is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Cavendish sprints to victory
Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) is back in business after nine years away, winning the first true sprint stage of the Giro d'Italia. The Manx Missile outsprinted Arnaud Démare (Groupama - FDJ) and Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates) to take the win.
“I’m very happy,” Cavendish said at the finish. “It’s really nice. We wanted to be good in this first sprint, and we did, and I’m very happy. “We’ve got half a team for the climbs here, and half a team for the sprints. Everyone committed, we rode with Pieter Serry today. We were supposed to have Mauro Schmid and [Davide] Ballerini keeping us there in the final, but we didn’t see Mauro. So, Ballerini did the last 10 or 15k in the wind for us. Normally we like him for the lead-out, but it got like that. With Ballerini, [Bert] Van Lerberghe, and Morky [Michael Mørkøv], we’ve got an incredible final group, I’ve said that before the race. And they delivered today. Ballerini kept us ‘till the roundabout, then Van Lerberghe went. The other teams came, but Morky stayed super-cool. In the end, I had to go long, with about 300m to go. I just had to hold the side, and I’m happy I could hang on for that long for the win."\n
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