Farrar Wins Tour Of Beijing Stage 3

14 October 2014 10:08

Tyler Farrar has won the third stage of the Tour of Beijing.

Stage three was the longest stage of the race and was a 176kms long stage from Yanqing to Qianjiadian Temple which featured two sprints in seven climbs.

One hundred and thirty one riders started the stage and it was Tyler Farrar who took the first sprint after seventeen kilometres. However, the Garmin-Sharp rider or race leader Philippe Gilbert was not in the break which got away nine kilometres later.

Dayer Quintana of Movistar, Julien Berard (AG2R), Pierre Lecuisinier (FDJ), Julian Alaphilippe (Omega Pharma Quick Step), Michal Golas (Omeha Pharma Quick Step, and Kristian Kroon (TCS).

Golas was after KOM points and took the first three climbs and then the fourth with 67 kilometres gone and the six having a lead of 3.40.

With Golas taking climbs numbers five and six and giving himself a healthy lead in the KOM competition, Alaphillipe was now the virtual race leader on the road and they allowed Quintana to take the second sprint.

Their lead was down to 49 seconds when Alaphilippe dropped back to the peloton, leaving five out front for the final twenty kilometres.

The peloton caught them seven kilometres later and Adam Hansen of Lotto started a move which saw him take second place on the final climb after 165kms behind Arredondo of Trek Factory Racing who had managed to join Hansen.

Carlos Betancur launched an attack but was brought back by the peloton which had Team Sky on the front before BMC took over.

Pieter Weening and Matt Haymen pulled turns as Giant Shimano, Cannondale and Orica Green Edge all had riders in good positions as thet went under the flam rouge.

Edvald Boasson-Hagan with no sprinter with him went for the line but up came on Tyler Farrar on the right and the Garmin-Sharp rider won in 4.15.47, followed by Luka Mezgec, Nikolas Maes, Mareno Hofland and Maximiliano Richeze.

Philippe Gilbert continues to lead the race with a five second lead over Giant Shimano's Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg.

Source: DSG