Michael Hepburn wins third stage as David Boily wraps up overall lead in Tour de l’Avenir 2011
Australian cyclist Michael Hepburn showed a good performance and claimed his second victory after winning the third stage of Tour de l’Avenir 2011 on Wednesday, September 7. This stage was not good for Rohan Dennis who lost his overall leader’s jersey and
grabbed 21st spot with a difference of 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
David Boily snatched the overall leader’s yellow jersey. The race started in Gerardmer and ended in Porrentruy. The 20-year-old Australian track and road cyclists took a total of 4 hours, 29 minutes and 58 seconds to cover the distance of 166.5 kilometres.
After few kilometres to go, in the first climb the six cyclists were able to take a lead including Johan Esteban Chaves, Garikoitz Bravo, Alexey Lutsenko, Warren Barguil, Tim Wellens and Asbjorn Kragh Andersen. All of them managed to gain a lead of few seconds
over the peloton while Esteban took maximum points in the first and second climb.
When the race entered in Col du Hundsruck, Haller launched an attack and took a lead ahead of Kreder. Sebastian Salazar, Juul-Jesen and Stake Laengen worked well together and gained points but Salazar took the fourth climb.
After a few kilometres, Juul-Jensen attacked but Mattia Cattaneo increased his pace and took the final climb of the stage. In the sprint, Hepburn left no chance for the other cyclists and took the stage victory.
Hepburn took the second stage Tour of Norway and grabbed the first place in UCI track World Champions NED. He also took the runner-up spot in Pursuit cycling Australia track national.
David Boily took the overall standing with a timing of 12 hours, 41 minutes and 13 seconds while stage winner Hepburn was in second with 28 seconds behind the Canadian.
Christopher Juul-Jensen was in third place with a difference of 34 seconds ahead of Vegard Stake Laengen and Jordi Simon.
Johan Esteban Chaves took the overall Mountain standing with 54 points ahead of Garikoitz Bravo.
The next stage will run in Porrentruy and end in Arbois as all the cyclists will cover the distance of 153.5 kilometres.
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