Breschel wins stage 3 of Tour de Luxembourg
Tinkoff-Saxo rider leads general classification
Matti Breschel took his second stage win in the Tour of Luxembourg on Saturday. The Danish Tinkoff-Saxo rider also took the yellow jersey with one stage to go. Rudy Molard (Cofidis) finished second ahead of Rusvelo's Sergey Lagutin.
With two riders in the top five of the overall, Tinkoff-Saxo had several cards to play in the longest stage of the Tour de Luxembourg.
"It's always hard to say in cycling of course. In an open race like the Tour of Luxembourg it's hard to make a plan," Breschel said to Cyclingnews after his victorious ride.
The third and longest stage led the peloton from Eschweiler to Differdange over 205,8 kilometres. With eight rated climbs, many more unrated climbs on the way and temperatures well over 30 degrees, it promised to be a very hard day for the 101 riders left in the bunch.
Straight from the gun, a group of four riders went clear, and the peloton let them have four minutes very soon. Tom Dernies (Wallonie-Bruxelles), Pit Schlechter (Leopard-Trek), Ruben Menendez (Differdange) and Ivan Balykin (Rusvelo) worked well together while Wanty-Groupe Gobert, the team of race leader Jempy Drucker, kept them under a manageable lead.
Trek Factory Racing were the first team to start riding into the final. The lead of the now five riders, MTN-Qhubeka's Jay Thomson bridged a 2,5-minute gap on his own, dropped to half a minute only. In the first of the three local laps, the break was caught and Fränk Schleck attacked the field on the Col de l'Europe, a 1500-metre climb of 8% average grade.
He was brought back, but the eldest of the Schleck brothers tried again. Other attackers included Linus Gerdemann (MTN-Qhubeka), Greg Henderson (Lotto-Belisol) and Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka) but the Wanty-Groupe Gobert riders had strength in numbers upon crossing the finish line for the penultimate time.
The race exploded in the last 9.4-kilometre lap. After the Col de l'Europe, a group of five riders went clear. Sergey Lagutin for Rusvelo, Rudy Molard for Cofidis and three Tinkoff-Saxo riders: Ivan Rovny, Oliver Zaugg and Matti Breschel.
"It was not the plan we would be up front with three riders. It's hard to make a plan before a stage like this. We had a couple of plans. We played on different cards," Breschel commented. "Ivan attacked and then I attacked."
Breschel sprinted to his second stage win in two days ahead of Molard and Lagutin and also took the yellow jersey of Drucker's shoulders. "I have that jersey. But only for now," Breschel said.
The last stage in the Tour of Luxembourg brings the peloton from Mersch to Luxembourg-City over 168,2 kilometres. The Rollingergrund climb in the five local laps will define the overall winner of this year's race.
Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Matti Breschel (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo | 5:27:10 |
2 | Rudy Molard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 1 - Cell 2 |
3 | Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) RusVelo | Row 2 - Cell 2 |
4 | Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Tinkoff-Saxo | Row 3 - Cell 2 |
5 | Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo | Row 4 - Cell 2 |
6 | Michael Morkov (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:00:18 |
7 | Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 6 - Cell 2 |
8 | Linus Gerdemann (Ger) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 7 - Cell 2 |
9 | Diego Milan Jimenez (Dom) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 8 - Cell 2 |
10 | Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Col) Colombia | Row 9 - Cell 2 |
11 | Christian Mager (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 10 - Cell 2 |
12 | Fabio Taborre (Ita) Yellow Fluo | Row 11 - Cell 2 |
13 | Maxime Anciaux (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 12 - Cell 2 |
14 | Laurent Evrard (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 13 - Cell 2 |
15 | Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Belisol | Row 14 - Cell 2 |
16 | Joel Zangerle (Lux) Leopard Development Team | Row 15 - Cell 2 |
17 | Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 16 - Cell 2 |
18 | Corrado Lampa (Ita) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 17 - Cell 2 |
19 | Fränk Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | Row 18 - Cell 2 |
20 | Kiryll Pozdnyakov (Rus) RusVelo | Row 19 - Cell 2 |
21 | Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Colombia | Row 20 - Cell 2 |
22 | Björn Leukemans (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 21 - Cell 2 |
23 | Sergey Firsanov (Rus) RusVelo | Row 22 - Cell 2 |
24 | Silvio Herklotz (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 23 - Cell 2 |
25 | Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 24 - Cell 2 |
26 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 25 - Cell 2 |
27 | Vegard Breen (Nor) Lotto Belisol | Row 26 - Cell 2 |
28 | Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez (Col) Colombia | Row 27 - Cell 2 |
29 | Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 28 - Cell 2 |
30 | Luigi Miletta (Ita) Yellow Fluo | Row 29 - Cell 2 |
31 | Thomas Koep (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 30 - Cell 2 |
32 | Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) RusVelo | Row 31 - Cell 2 |
33 | Artem Ovechkin (Rus) RusVelo | Row 32 - Cell 2 |
34 | Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Belisol | 0:01:00 |
35 | César Bihel (Fra) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:01:03 |
36 | Janis Dakteris (Lat) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 35 - Cell 2 |
37 | Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 36 - Cell 2 |
38 | Jaco Venter (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 37 - Cell 2 |
39 | Mirco Saggiorato (Swi) Team Stölting | Row 38 - Cell 2 |
40 | Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:01:08 |
41 | Tom Thill (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:01:52 |
42 | Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 0:02:33 |
43 | Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) RusVelo | Row 42 - Cell 2 |
44 | Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 43 - Cell 2 |
45 | Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | Row 44 - Cell 2 |
46 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 45 - Cell 2 |
47 | Juan Pablo Valencia (Col) Colombia | 0:03:17 |
48 | Edward Fabian Diaz Cardenas (Col) Colombia | Row 47 - Cell 2 |
49 | Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:04:16 |
50 | Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 49 - Cell 2 |
51 | André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol | Row 50 - Cell 2 |
52 | Edwig Cammaerts (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:07:09 |
53 | Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 52 - Cell 2 |
54 | Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:08:29 |
55 | Tom Dernies (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 54 - Cell 2 |
56 | Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal (Col) Colombia | 0:08:49 |
57 | Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Belisol | Row 56 - Cell 2 |
58 | Adrien Petit (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 57 - Cell 2 |
59 | Matthias Plarre (Ger) Leopard Development Team | Row 58 - Cell 2 |
60 | Darwin Ferney Pantoja Tobar (Col) Colombia | Row 59 - Cell 2 |
61 | Dennis Coenen (Bel) Leopard Development Team | Row 60 - Cell 2 |
62 | Andy Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | Row 61 - Cell 2 |
63 | Jonathan Paredes (Col) Colombia | Row 62 - Cell 2 |
64 | Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 63 - Cell 2 |
65 | Marko Kump (Slo) Tinkoff-Saxo | Row 64 - Cell 2 |
66 | Francesco Failli (Ita) Yellow Fluo | Row 65 - Cell 2 |
67 | Ivan Balykin (Ita) RusVelo | Row 66 - Cell 2 |
68 | Johan Coenen (Bel) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 67 - Cell 2 |
69 | Fabio Silvestre (Por) Trek Factory Racing | 0:11:23 |
70 | Calvin Watson (Aus) Trek Factory Racing | Row 69 - Cell 2 |
71 | Samuele Conti (Ita) Yellow Fluo | Row 70 - Cell 2 |
72 | Boris Dron (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 71 - Cell 2 |
73 | Julien Stassen (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 72 - Cell 2 |
74 | Michal Kolár (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo | Row 73 - Cell 2 |
75 | Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Belisol | Row 74 - Cell 2 |
76 | Quentin Bertholet (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 75 - Cell 2 |
77 | Grégory Rast (Swi) Trek Factory Racing | Row 76 - Cell 2 |
78 | Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo | Row 77 - Cell 2 |
79 | Roman Maikin (Rus) RusVelo | Row 78 - Cell 2 |
80 | Rafael Andriato (Bra) Yellow Fluo | Row 79 - Cell 2 |
81 | Alex Kirsch (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:14:11 |
82 | Patrick Olesen (Den) Leopard Development Team | Row 81 - Cell 2 |
83 | Pit Schlechter (Lux) Leopard Development Team | Row 82 - Cell 2 |
84 | Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek Factory Racing | 0:14:26 |
85 | Andreas Stauff (Ger) MTN - Qhubeka | Row 84 - Cell 2 |
86 | Danny van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing | Row 85 - Cell 2 |
87 | Nils Politt (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 86 - Cell 2 |
88 | Roberto De Patre (Ita) Yellow Fluo | Row 87 - Cell 2 |
89 | Joaquin Sobrino Martinez (Spa) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 88 - Cell 2 |
90 | Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 89 - Cell 2 |
91 | Julien Fouchard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 90 - Cell 2 |
92 | Boris Vallee (Bel) Lotto Belisol | Row 91 - Cell 2 |
93 | Kevin Feiereisen (Lux) Leopard Development Team | Row 92 - Cell 2 |
94 | Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 93 - Cell 2 |
95 | Ruben Menendez Velasco (Spa) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 94 - Cell 2 |
96 | Florent Mottet (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | Row 95 - Cell 2 |
97 | Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 96 - Cell 2 |
98 | Jan Ghyselinck (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:14:27 |
99 | Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 98 - Cell 2 |
100 | Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:14:40 |
DNF | Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | Row 100 - Cell 2 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Matti Breschel (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo | 13:54:02 |
2 | Rudy Molard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:00:15 |
3 | Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | Row 2 - Cell 2 |
4 | Michael Morkov (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:00:17 |
5 | Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) RusVelo | 0:00:20 |
6 | Silvio Herklotz (Ger) Team Stölting | 0:00:29 |
7 | Romain Hardy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:00:37 |
8 | Laurent Evrard (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:00:42 |
9 | Fränk Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | 0:00:50 |
10 | Björn Leukemans (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:00:55 |
11 | Christian Mager (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 10 - Cell 2 |
12 | Joel Zangerle (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:00:58 |
13 | Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:00:59 |
14 | Diego Milan Jimenez (Dom) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:01:00 |
15 | Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez (Col) Colombia | Row 14 - Cell 2 |
16 | Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) RusVelo | 0:01:02 |
17 | Vegard Breen (Nor) Lotto Belisol | 0:01:04 |
18 | Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Colombia | 0:01:05 |
19 | Fabio Taborre (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:01:06 |
20 | Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:01:10 |
21 | Artem Ovechkin (Rus) RusVelo | 0:01:17 |
22 | Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:01:25 |
23 | Thomas Koep (Ger) Team Stölting | 0:01:30 |
24 | Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:01:32 |
25 | Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:01:34 |
26 | Kiryll Pozdnyakov (Rus) RusVelo | 0:01:36 |
27 | Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 0:01:37 |
28 | Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:01:38 |
29 | Janis Dakteris (Lat) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:01:42 |
30 | Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Col) Colombia | 0:01:43 |
31 | César Bihel (Fra) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:01:48 |
32 | Corrado Lampa (Ita) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:01:58 |
33 | Sergey Firsanov (Rus) RusVelo | 0:02:06 |
34 | Linus Gerdemann (Ger) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:02:12 |
35 | Maxime Anciaux (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:02:16 |
36 | Tom Thill (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:02:37 |
37 | Mirco Saggiorato (Swi) Team Stölting | 0:02:40 |
38 | Jaco Venter (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:03:00 |
39 | Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:03:04 |
40 | Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Belisol | Row 39 - Cell 2 |
41 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:03:07 |
42 | Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:03:13 |
43 | Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | 0:03:35 |
44 | Luigi Miletta (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:03:41 |
45 | Edward Fabian Diaz Cardenas (Col) Colombia | 0:04:35 |
46 | Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:04:48 |
47 | Juan Pablo Valencia (Col) Colombia | 0:04:55 |
48 | Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 0:05:17 |
49 | Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) RusVelo | 0:05:40 |
50 | Jay Thomson (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:05:46 |
51 | André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol | 0:06:54 |
52 | Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:07:23 |
53 | Edwig Cammaerts (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:07:48 |
54 | Dennis Coenen (Bel) Leopard Development Team | 0:09:17 |
55 | Johan Coenen (Bel) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:09:45 |
56 | Ivan Balykin (Ita) RusVelo | 0:10:06 |
57 | Gregory Habeaux (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:10:08 |
58 | Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:10:10 |
59 | Andy Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing | 0:10:20 |
60 | Tom Dernies (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:10:21 |
61 | Jonathan Paredes (Col) Colombia | 0:10:23 |
62 | Darwin Ferney Pantoja Tobar (Col) Colombia | 0:10:26 |
63 | Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Belisol | 0:10:40 |
64 | Francesco Failli (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:10:58 |
65 | Adrien Petit (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:10:59 |
66 | Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal (Col) Colombia | 0:11:26 |
67 | Marko Kump (Slo) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:11:30 |
68 | Matthias Plarre (Ger) Leopard Development Team | 0:11:43 |
69 | Roman Maikin (Rus) RusVelo | 0:11:49 |
70 | Rafael Andriato (Bra) Yellow Fluo | 0:12:07 |
71 | Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:13:22 |
72 | Grégory Rast (Swi) Trek Factory Racing | 0:13:43 |
73 | Quentin Bertholet (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:14:12 |
74 | Julien Stassen (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:14:34 |
75 | Michal Kolár (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo | 0:14:42 |
76 | Boris Dron (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:15:27 |
77 | Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek Factory Racing | 0:15:36 |
78 | Pit Schlechter (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:15:39 |
79 | Alex Kirsch (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:16:00 |
80 | Danny van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing | 0:16:15 |
81 | Ruben Menendez Velasco (Spa) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:16:26 |
82 | Patrick Olesen (Den) Leopard Development Team | 0:16:29 |
83 | Roberto De Patre (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:16:44 |
84 | Joaquin Sobrino Martinez (Spa) Team Differdange - Losch | Row 83 - Cell 2 |
85 | Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:16:49 |
86 | Julien Fouchard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:16:52 |
87 | Nils Politt (Ger) Team Stölting | 0:17:09 |
88 | Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Belisol | Row 87 - Cell 2 |
89 | Kevin Feiereisen (Lux) Leopard Development Team | 0:17:14 |
90 | Andreas Stauff (Ger) MTN - Qhubeka | 0:17:19 |
91 | Florent Mottet (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles | 0:17:21 |
92 | Markus Eichler (Ger) Team Stölting | Row 91 - Cell 2 |
93 | Jan Ghyselinck (Bel) Wanty - Groupe Gobert | 0:17:31 |
94 | Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Team Differdange - Losch | 0:17:41 |
95 | Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:17:44 |
96 | Boris Vallee (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 0:21:54 |
97 | Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Stölting | 0:23:45 |
98 | Fabio Silvestre (Por) Trek Factory Racing | 0:23:52 |
99 | Calvin Watson (Aus) Trek Factory Racing | 0:24:02 |
100 | Samuele Conti (Ita) Yellow Fluo | 0:24:11 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team |
---|---|
1 | Matti Breschel (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team |
---|---|
1 | Tom Dernies (Bel) Wallonie - Bruxelles |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Rudy Molard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 13:54:17 |
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