We cannot seem to get enough of Mads Pedersen and this time he won for another time at stage 3 of Circuit de la Sarthe- Pays de la Loire. His mighty and powerful sprint on his road bicycle will be remembered by all as he put behind Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa-Samsic).
Pedersen shared the podium with Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa-Samsic) and Mark Cavendish (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl). Now thanks to this win, Pedersen has now extended his race lead.
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After the race, Pedersen said:
It’s cool to win again, my team worked really hard for this. The guy from Arkea did a good move, so I had to do a long sprint.
I had to go early and hope to catch him. It worked out well for us. I passed him just five meters from the finish.
It’s a good week, it’s nice to have a good shape like this, especially with Paris-Roubaix coming up.
The third stage of Circuit de la Sarthe was sprawling with a total distance of 176.5km. It also featured a huge loop with seven laps around the Sablé-sur-Sarthe. The race event only saw the absence of Tim Declercq (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) due to some illness, other than that 96 riders were left in the race.
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Immediately as the race started, a group of six riders broke away and went for the lead. Those six riders were Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost), Paul Ourselin (TotalEnergies), Emiel Vermeulen (Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Métropole), Tony Hurel (St. Michel-Auber 93), Andrii Ponomar (Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli) and Laurent Pichon (Arkéa-Samsic).
Steinhauser was almost going to make it when he closed the gap with the other riders but Pedersen caught up to him very quickly.
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