Peter Sagan Wins Tour De Suisse Stage Three

Last updated : 13 June 2016 By CNS Staff

Peter Sagan Of Tinkoff made it two out of two when he won the third stage of the Tour de Suisse.

This was a 192.6km stage from Grosswangen to Rheinfelden with Silvan Dillier (BMC), Lars Eric Byström (Katusha), Gregory Rast (Trek-Segafredo, Mathew Hayman (Orica-GreenEdge), Branislau Samoilau (CCC), Bruno Pires (Roth), Antwan Tolhoek (Roompot) and Huub Duijn (Roompot) forming an eight man break which was five minutes clear going into the last 75kms.

Tolhoek took the first two climbs of the day to take the lead in the KOM competition before the riders started on two twenty seven kilometre closing laps.

Dillier took the intermediate sprint before Tolhoek took the third climb before he and Pires pressed on.

The rest of the break caught up to them and they took a lead of 2.20 going into the final 34kms.

As the rain came down, only Haymen, Dillier, Tolhoek, Bystrom and Huub Duijn were left up front with a lap left.

Their lead was 49 seconds with twenty kilometres left after Dillier took the next set of of intermediate points.

Michael Albasini and then Peter Sagan attacked from the peloton and caught up to Dillier and the trio had a lead of 17 seconds with four kilometres left.

It came down to a sprint and Peter Sagan took the win in 4.31.07 ahead of Albasini, Dillier and Richeeze and the lead of the race.