Lobato wins Tour de Wallonie stage 3

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Movistar’s Juan José Lobato won the third stage of the Tour de Wallonie on Monday in Neufchâteau, Belgium. The Spaniard crossed the line first in a dwindled bunch sprint ahead of runner-up Gianni Meersman (Omega Phama-Quick Step) and Silvan Dillier (BMC) in third.

“It was an incredible finish,” said Lobato in a team press release. “It was very nice and, thanks to my teammates, I was able to get positioned well in order to do my sprint."

Meersman continues to lead the overall classification, for a second day, by 11 seconds ahead of Lobato and an additional four seconds to Zico Waeytens (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise). The Belgian rider is also leading the points classification, while Waeytens leads the sprint classification and Christopher Juul Jensen (Tinkoff-Saxo) leads the mountains classification.

Stage 3 took the riders on a 174km race from Somme-Leuze to Neufchâteau. “It was not really nervous until the final," said Dillier, who attacked from the smaller main field with 25km to go. "On the last climbs, there were some attacks and it was a tactical race at the end. My teammates helped me well in the last kilometers. I would have liked to have won, but the last meters were hard and two other riders passed me."

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