Tour de France LIVE: Stage 3 result as Dylan Groenewegen wins photo finish after crash
The Tour de France resumes with its final Danish leg, a 182km ride down the mainland coastline finishing in the town of Sonderborg
Dylan Groenewegen won stage three of the Tour de France in a four-way photo finish in Sondeborg, Denmark.
Groenewegen narrowly beat yellow jersey wearer Wout van Aert, Jasper Philipsen and Peter Sagan in a dramatic finish to the 182km stage from Vejle as the Danish Grand Depart came to a dramatic end. Groenewegen rode the wheels and came around first Sagan and then Van Aert to claim his fifth career Tour stage win and first since 2019.
After Fabio Jakobsen claimed an emotional stage victory on Saturday to complete his comeback from the life-threatening injuries he suffered at the Tour of Poland in 2020, Sunday was the turn of the rider he collided with two years ago.
Groenewegen did not face the physical recovery Jakobsen did from that incident, but had spoken of the mental scars after he faced death threats and abuse in its wake - with the Dutchman also handed a nine-month ban by world governing body the UCI.
“It was a long way (back),” Groenewegen said. “I want to say thank you to my team and my family and friends for getting me back to the Tour in good shape. It’s beautiful.
“Not physically but mentally it’s been a hard time of course after all that happened. This is for my wife and my son, it means a lot.”
Groenewegen said he had been held up in a late crash that split the peloton a little over 10km from the line, though he was in the right place when it mattered.
“Yesterday I was a little bit angry with myself but today, though I was a long time boxed in and involved in a crash with nine kilometres to go, my team brought me back into position and I stayed calm to the end,” he added.
Follow the latest updates from stage 3 of the 2022 Tour de France below.
Tour de France stage 3
Some of the best images from the day so far, as we approach the business end of the stage:
Intermediate sprint, top five
- Magnus Cort Nielsen (EFE), 20 points
- Wout van Aert (TJV), 17
- Fabio Jakobsen (QST), 15
- Christophe Laporte (TJV), 13
- Peter Sagan (TEN), 11
Tour de France stage 3
Magnus Cort’s solo lead is down to around one minute, and it looks like he will soon be swept up by the bunch as the sprinters’ teams start to jostle for superiority at the front.
Overall standings (top 10 after 2 of 21 stages)
1. Wout van Aert, Belgium, Jumbo-Visma, 4:49:50.
2. Yves Lampaert, Belgium, QuickStep-AlphaVinyl, 1 second behind.
3. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates, 08.
4. Filippo Ganna, Italy, Ineos Grenadiers, 11.
5. Mads Pedersen, Denmark, Trek-Segafredo, 12.
6. Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands, Alpecin-Deceuninck, 14.
7. Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark, Jumbo-Visma, 16.
8. Primoz Roglic, Slovenia, Jumbo-Visma, 17.
9. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek-Segafredo, 18.
10. Dylan Teuns, Belgium, Bahrain Victorious, 21.
Tour de France stage 3
The sprinters are shuffling towards the front as this intermediate sprint approaches – Fabio Jakobsen in the green jersey and Wout van Aert in the yellow are both up there with Caleb Ewan and Peter Sagan battling too. They surge to the line and Van Aert takes it to increase his lead in the sprinters’ standings (Jakobsen is only wearing green today because Van Aert is already in yellow).
Tour de France stage 3
92km to go: Another look at today’s profile – Cort is approaching the intermedate sprint and the peloton is now only 2 min 40 sec behind, with UAE Emirates near the front on the bunch.
Tour de France stage 3
97 km to go: Magnus Cort reaches the top of the second climb of the day four minutes ahead of the peloton and that’s another King of the Mountains point in the bank. Next on the horizon is the intermediate sprint – Cort will get there first but then the sprinters will be eager to pick up the remaining scraps of green jersey points.
Tour de France stage 3
Chris Froome suffered a minor crash yesterday towards the end of the stage, and managed to avoid major injury:
“I think it’s always to be expected, the first few road stages of the Tour are always going to be stressful,” he said before the start of stage 3. “I took a little tumble towards the final of yesterday, the crash with 2km to go, but that one I came off pretty lucky, all things considered.
“Not the best night, but it could have been much worse. It could have been like last year, where I was in a lot of pain. This time it was just a few grazes, and that was it. So I consider myself lucky.”
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