Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was in full command on stage 3 of the Tour of Belgium, making up for his botched dash on the day before today by sprinting to an all however uncontested victory in Scherpenheuvel-Zichem.
Philipsen’s staff did a textbook lead-out, dropping the Belgian on the entrance with 200 metres to go and no different rider may even come alongside.
Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Gerben Thijssen (Intermarché-Wanty) completed second and third on the stage a motorbike size behind, with stage 2 winner Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quickstep) in fourth.
Stage 1 winner and race chief Søren Wærenskjold (Uno-X) used the ‘golden kilometre’ trio of time bonus sprints to make sure he would head into stage 4 within the chief’s jersey.
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