Région Pays de la Loire Tour: Alberto Dainese wins stage 3

Alberto Dainese (Tudor Pro Cycling) notched up his first win of the 2024 season, out-sprinting Marijn van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) and Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) on the finish of the 159.9 stage from Segré-en-Anjou Bleu to Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne.

A five-rider breakaway fashioned within the first hour Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X Mobility), Hugo Aznar (Kern Pharma), Leo Danês(CIC U Nantes Atlantique), Damien Girard (Nice Metropole Côte d’Azur), Romain Cardis (St Michel-Mavic-Auber ‘93)

After Aznar threw within the towel within the closing hour, the rest of the breakaway was introduced again with 17 kilometres to go.

More assaults adopted by Arkéa-B&B Hotels had been intent on bringing the stage right down to a dash. Attacks by Rodrigo Álvarez (Burgos BH) after which Sam Watson (Groupama-FDJ) had been rapidly neutralised.

Ben Healy delivered a strong lead-out for his EF Education-EasyPost teammate heading into the ultimate kilometre with Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) on the wheel however Dainese got here across the outdoors and denied them each, with Bennett snatching third place with a motorcycle throw.

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