2024 Volta a Catalunya Stage 3 Results & Recap
Stage 3 of the 2024 Volta a Catalunya is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Pogacar secures lead in Volta a Catalunya
The third stage of the Volta a Catalunya 2024 presented a very important challenge of high mountains, with a day of 176.7 kilometers of route with departure from Sant Joan de les Abadesses and ascent to first level passes such as Port de Toses (1st category), Port del Cantó (special category) and the final arrival at the resort of Port Ainé, in Pallars Sobirà. A final difficulty of 18.3 kilometers aimed to be again an important milestone for the resolution of this Volta.
It has been a day of intense battle, marked in its first half by the formation of a breakaway of ten riders with climbers of levels as Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Juan Pedro Lopez (Lidl-Trek), Mauri Vansevenant (Soudal Quick-Step), Ivan Sosa (Movistar Team) or Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan Team), the most combative rider of the day after crowning in first place both the Port de Toses and the Port del Cantó. However, the rider has always closely controlled the group with the ambition of the big teams in the general classification, and the pace of the Visma-Lease en Bike team of Sepp Kuss has neutralized the group on the ramps of the never-ending Port del Cantó.
Everything was ready for the face-to-face between the big favorites for the victory of the Volta a Catalunya on the ramps of Port Ainé. A fight that proved to have a name of its own. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), wearing the leader's jersey won the previous day in Vallter, counterattacked a move by Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick-Step) 7.5 kilometers from the top of the Pallaresan resort and began his triumphal cavalcade to the finish line in Port Ainé, where he entered as a solo winner with 48 seconds ahead of Landa, his main pursuer. At 1:03, a group with Antonio Tiberi, Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious) and Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease en Bike) came in, and at 1:10, a second group led by Alexander Vlasov (Bora-hansgrohe), now third overall.
After these two intense arrivals at the ski resorts of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the 103rd Volta a Catalunya expects a calmer stage on its fourth day scheduled for Thursday, which will join in a 169-kilometer route to the capital of Pallars Sobirà, Sort, and the city of Lleida, which will host an arrival of the Catalan race again 11 years after the last precedent. After these two intense arrivals at the ski resorts of Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the 103rd Volta a Catalunya expects a calmer stage on its fourth day scheduled for Thursday, which will join in a 169-kilometer route to the capital of Pallars Sobirà, Sort, and the city of Lleida, which will host an arrival of the Catalan race again 11 years after the last precedent.\n
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