After stunning the peloton to become the first-ever American stage winner at the Tour of Britain on Monday, today saw Robin Carpenter and the rest of our men’s team fight hard to try and retain the leader’s blue jersey.
Last off the ramp in Llandelio, Wales, the riders put in a gutsy ride that produced an 11th best time on the day. Their mark was beaten by stage winners Ineos Grenadiers, with their rider Ethan Hayter going into the blue of overall race leader.
Photographer Matt Grayson was there to capture the action.
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- The race leader recaps the previous day
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- The mechanics get things dialed
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- Recon time
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- Putting on the blue skinsuit
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- More media duties
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- Zukowsky in full focus
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- The riders did their best to keep cool in soaring South Wales temperatures
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- A big turnout to roar the riders off
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- The final moments in the start house
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- Ramping up the pressure
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- Local wildlife
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- Hammer down
Stage 3 TTT results
1 Ineos Grenadiers 0:20:22
2 Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:17
3 Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:20
4 Israel Start-up Nation 0:00:43
5 Team DSM 0:00:57
6 Alpecin-Fenix
7 Movistar Team 0:01:08
8 Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling 0:01:09
9 Trinity Racing 0:01:24
10 Team Arkea-Samsic 0:01:28
11 Rally Cycling 0:01:32
12 Great Britain – GBR 0:01:57
GC standings after stage 3
1 Ethan Hayter (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 9:40:21
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:06
3 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 0:00:16
4 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:23
5 Mikkel Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep ”
6 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:00:38
7 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-up Nation 0:00:49
8 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-up Nation ”
9 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Alpecin-Fenix 0:01:03
10 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix ”
11 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team DSM ”
12 Robin Carpenter (USA) Rally Cycling 0:01:06
Stage 4 of the Tour of Britain kicks off on Wednesday at 5:30 am EDT, with television pictures on GCN+ from 8 am EDT.Â
