Stuck between the two arrivals at the top of these four days of racing, the 3rd stage of the Czech Tour could not really escape a massive sprint this Saturday. Thanks to a lot of work of the teams Soudal Quick-Step et Ds Astana To master the breakaway throughout the day on this almost entirely flat course, we attended the scenario expected at the end of the 148.4km to join Ostrava … But the surprise finally came from the name of the winner, Liam Walsh (CCACHE X BODYWRAP)! Yet taken to a plateau by its teammates of Wolfpack, Luke Lamperti was the big favorite to sign a 2nd stage success. In the lead a little too early at 200 meters in the final stretch, the American could only look with a helpless eye the 24 -year -old Australian rocket exceeding him. Overpowered on the fins of the final, sprinting all in strength by sitting to crush the pedals, Walsh The best victory of his career offers himself.
Junior Lecerf remains in yellow
Winning with two lengths ahead of the 1st stage winner, Liam Walsh Perhaps signed his birth certificate this Saturday, August 16. Behind the first two, the Pole Marceli Boguslawski (ATT Investments) came to take 3rd place in front of Greek Nikiforos arvanitou (Team United Shipping) et l’Italien Alexander Konychev (Vorarlberg team). No change in the general classification, Junior Lecerf (Sudal Quick-Step) remains in yellow with 4 and 9 seconds in advance respectively on Alessandro Fancell (Team UKYO) and Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma | lease a bike) on the eve of a 4th and last step which promises to be decisive and suspense, with an arrival at the top at Pustevny (6.1 km à 7.4%).
