Tour of Catalonia: Duel of seconds! Evenepoel defeats Roglic at the mountain finish

Click through the 3rd stage of the Tour of Catalonia 2023

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) won the seconds duel of the cycling stars with Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) struck back at the Tour of Catalonia 2023. The Belgian world champion won the mountain finish in La Molina and won the third stage by two seconds ahead of Roglic.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Roglic maintains overall lead

In the overall standings, the Slovenian is only ahead of Evenepoel due to his better stage placings. The Italian Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) finished in third place after 180.6 kilometres and also holds this position in the overall classification. The tour serves the top stars as a test of form for the Giro d'Italia in May.

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Evenepoel attacked around five kilometres before the finish, only Roglic was able to follow the 23-year-old. In the finale, Roglic parried another attack before he had to let the exceptional talent go in the final metres.

Tough mountain finish on Friday

A preliminary decision for the overall victory could be made on Friday at the mountain arrival in Lo Port. The German team Bora-Hansgrohe is in the top ten of the overall standings with Giro winner Jai Hindley and top talent Cian Uijtdebroeks.

Tour of Catalonia 2023: Stage 3 result

• 1st Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) 4:40:43

• 2nd Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +0:02

• 3rd Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) +0:13

• 4th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:13

• 5th Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +0:13

• 6th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:13

• 7th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +0:13

• 8th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:13

• 9th Esteban Chaves (EF Education EasyPost) +0:13

• 10th Romain Bardet (Team DSM) +0:13

Tour of Catalonia 2023: The standings in the overall standings

• 1st Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 12:42:17

• 2nd Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:00

• 3rd Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) +0:19

• 4th Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:44

• 5th Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +0:44

• 6th Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:48

• 7th Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) +0:48

• 8th Esteban Chaves (EF Education EasyPost) +0:48

• 9th Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:58

• 10th Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) +1:12

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