Peter Sagan wins the third stage of the Tour De Suisse 2012
Peter Sagan of Team Liquigas-Cannondale bagged yet another victory during the third stage of the Tour De Suisse 2012.
The cyclist is having a terrific season with as many as ten stages in his bag at the Tour of Oman, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Three Days of De Panne, Tour of California and the Tour de Suisse.
He finished second overall during the Gent-Wevelgem, third at the Amstel Gold Race, fourth at the Milan-San Remo and occupied the fifth spot at the Tour of Flanders 2012.
The Slovakian finished the 194.7 kilometre stage 3 of the Swiss race in a quickest time of 4 hours, 35 minutes and 32 seconds to bag his second victory at the race.
Baden Cooke of Team Orica GreenEdge and Ben Swift of Team Sky Procycling finished almost at the same time and secured the second and the third positions.
Jacopo Guarnieri of Team Astana, Allan Davis of Team Orica GreenEdge, Yauheni Hutarovich of Team FDJ-Big Mat and Lloyd Mondory of Team AG2R La Mondiale achieved the next four spots in the respective order.
Peter is making full use of his tremendous form; first he entered the record books by bagging five stages at the Tour of California.
He has now entered the league of most prestigious cyclists as we move towards the Tour de France and the 2012 London Olympics.
The 22-year-old has claimed as many as 229 UCI points at the UCI World Tour Elite Men’s ranking and holds the sixth overall position.
Joaquim Rodriguez of Team Katusha is leading the classifications with 404 points while Tom Boonen and Bradley Wiggins hold the second and the third positions.
Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa of Team Movistar continued his dominance at the overall classifications, with a total lead of 8 seconds over Frank Schleck of Team RadioShack-Nissan.
Roman Kreuziger of Team Astana is further seven seconds behind at the third position while Thibaut Pinot of Team FDJ-Big Mat and Nicolas Roche of Team AG2R La Mondiale holds the fourth and the fifth spots.
Frank Schleck is dominating the mountains classifications with a maximum number of 20 points in his pocket.
Frank is accompanied by Ryan Andersen of Team Spidertech Powered BY C10 and Michael Morkov of Team Saxo Bank as the duo hold the second and the third spots with 20 and 17 points respectively.
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