Team Bahrain-Victorious positioned itself cleverly with rider Nikias Arndt on the last left-hand bend and was already in the lead there. Phil Bauhaus then latched onto the rear wheel of Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), who he then passed to take a clear win. The onrushing Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) launched his attack too late to put the German under pressure. The 29-year-old from Bocholt thus won his first stage in 2024.
Phil Bauhaus benefits from good positioning
Before the sprinters entered the finishing straight, there was a sharp left-hand bend that had to be negotiated. Bauhaus and his rider Nikias Arndt were well positioned at the front, so he was not thrown off course by the crashes behind him. Co-favourites around the winner of stage 2 Jasper Philipsen crashed, other riders had to take evasive action and lost contact. The Bahrain-Victorious team benefited from this and took the stage win with a bike length advantage over Jonathan Milan in the person of Phil Bauhaus.
In addition to the day's winner Bauhaus, two other German riders also made it into the top ten: Marius Mayrhofer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) crossed the finish line in eighth place and Bauhaus rider Nikias Arndt in tenth.
"I didn't expect to win today. I had to suffer on the last climb, but my team believed in me. I was in a perfect position on the last kilometre. Luckily I still had the legs to pull off my sprint. I'm very happy to have taken my first win of the year."
Tirreno-Adriatico 2024: Results - the top 10 of stage 3
- Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious) 5:25:51
- Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) +0:00
- Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) +0:00
- Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) +0:00
- Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +0:00
- Simone Velasco (Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0:00
- Damiano Caruso (Bahrain-Victrious) +0:00
- Marius Mayrhofer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) +0:00
- Kevin Vermaerke (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) +0:00
- Nikias Arndt (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:00
Tirreno-Adriatico 2024: Results - The current standings in the overall standings
- Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) 10:09:22
- Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) +0:06
- Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) +0:14
- Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:17
- Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) +0:22
- Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ) +0:22
- Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:24
- Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) +0:26
- Max Poole (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) +0:26
- Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:26
How the 3rd stage of Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 went
On the longest stage of Tirreno-Adriatico with 225 kilometres, a two-man breakaway group formed early on and the peloton did not put any obstacles in their way. Jan Stöckli (Team Corratec - Vini Fantini) and Samuele Zoccarato (VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizane) broke away from the peloton, and at times the two escapees even had a gap of over ten minutes.
The race situation was stable for a long time, but after the intermediate sprint 84 kilometres before the finish, Jan Stöckli dropped back to the peloton after winning it. Zoccarato had a lead of around five minutes at this point and now tried to go solo.
22 kilometres before the finish, around 8 kilometres before the only mountain classification of the day, the Italian breakaway was caught by the peloton. Shortly afterwards, the EF Education EasyPost team moved to the front of the peloton and increased the pace in the person of Richard Carapaz, who then took the full five mountain points.
In the end, it came down to a bunch sprint, in which the Bahrain-Victorious team chose the best tactical approach and therefore snatched the day's victory in the person of German Phil Bauhaus. Meanwhile, Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) remains the leader in the overall standings, while the two Bora-Hansgrohe riders Jai Hindley and Lennard Kämna finished in the top 10.
