2017 Santos Tour Down Under: Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) wins crash marred stage three finale in Victor Harbor, Australia. Richie Porte (BMC) keeps his Ocre leaders jersey for the first day and four days remaining.
Caleb Ewan has proved to everybody he's in good shape once again by winning his second stage in Santos Tour Down Under when the race came back to the flat terrain where it lies his speciality, even after losen his best lead out in the final kilometer crash in Daryl Impey who was caught in the final crash he still went ahead to beat the world road race champion Peter Sagan to the line.
How today went in tour down under stage three.
Today's stage depart was in Grenelg, the seaside suburb with beautiful skies and the riders where set for a showdown. Breakaway was sure to happen today and it was the breakaway specialist (Lotto-Soudal) Thomas De Gent who attack and initiated one which took three others with Belgian Vegard Stake Laegen (UAE Abu Dhabi), Clement Chevrier (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Jeremy Masion (FDJ) who got in the first breakaway of the day and hard four minutes gap they where brought almost caught in just before the penultimate lap, Leangen attack his breakaway companions.
Then the furious bunch of (Orica-Scott) of Caleb Ewan put the hammer down and brought everybody back, as the came into the final left turn, it was World Road race champion Peter who made the first and Caleb Ewan sprinted from the left to win his second stage of Santos Tour down Under.
Third man on the general classification (Movistar) Gorka Izagire who was caught in the crash that happend and he was taken to the hospital for further check, we awaits final result later.
Top three stage finishers:
Caleb Ewan (Australia) Orica-Scott
Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Bora Hansgrohe
Niccolo Bonifasio (Italy) Bahrain-Merida
Top three General Classification:
Richie Porte (Australia) BMC
Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Movistar)
Estaban Chaves (Colombia) Orica-Scott.
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