Pello Bilbao defends himself like a cat with a raised stomach and maintains the lead in the Alps

Kamna (Wedel, 25 years old), stage winner of Tour de France, dauphine Y Return to Cataloniaachieved his fifth victory as a professional with an attack within the selected group 3 km from the finish line allowing him to calmly raise his arms.

The German finished the stage with a time of 4: 02.56, averaging 38.4 km/hour, on a difficult day characterized by the success of the riders to build the first breakaway. Kamna led the Costa Rican from Ineos Andrey Amador by 3 seconds and a group led by the Spanish by 4 Jonathan Lastra (Rural Fund-Insurance RGA)with good performance.

The men of the general, incl Pello Bilbao having secured the leader’s green jersey, they came to the finish line 57 seconds behind Kamna. The 32-year-old from Gernikarra will defend the green jersey in the fourth period with 6 seconds left in French Romain Bardet (DS) and 12 compared with Hungarian Attila Valter (Groupama).

The escape consisted of 7 men near Velturno’s first non-scoring ascent, including Rojas, Jonathan Lastra and Unai Iribar theirs.

The group overcame the first difficulty in scoring together, Terento (2a.6 km at 7.9 per cent), without the peloton reacting. the bahrain of Pello Bilbao Calm down, because the most dangerous in the breakaway was the Australian Hamilton (DSM) at 4.23 minutes.

Hamilton certainly attacked by climbing the Fulkerpass/Passo Furcia (1a, 12.3 km with an average percentage of 6.1), with a summit of 24 km from the finish line, but his fellow breakaways did not approve of the idea. . In the back, in the group of favorites, he was tense Sivakovimmediately neutralized by the leader’s staff.

The escape with Kamna, Amador, Lastra, Pronskyi, Barta and Piccoli he recovered on 10 goals with a one -minute advantage. No problem for Bilbao, who calmly traveled along Bardet, Landa, Porte and Sivakov. The victory came first and the green jersey behind Biscayan.

3 km from the finish line, Lennard Kamna attacked, whose wheel Amador and Lastra tried to follow, but the German’s successive change of speed allowed him to open up a few meters of advantage. Enough to apply the law of the strongest in the end. He got his second win of the season, after the stage he achieved at Vuelta a Andalucía.

This Thursday important appointment on the mountain with the fourth stage in between Villabassa and Kals am Grossglockner, of 142.4 km. Six climbs along the way, although only two will be scored. The first of them is the Kartitscher Sattel, on Austrian soil (2a, 8.2 km at 5.7 percent).

After a long descent without a steep slope, the Gailberg Sattel elevation (3a, 6.4 km to 4.3) can be reached, to end with a pointless ascent to Grossglockner, a town in the state of Tyrol, in Austria.