Stage 3 - Lorient - Pontivy 182.9 km

1 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 4:01:28
2 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
3 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
4 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
5 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
6 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
7 Mathieu Van Der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
8 Cees Bol (Ned) Team DSM 0:00
9 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Team TotalEnergies 0:00
10 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Qhubeka NextHash 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+20 Max Walscheid
+20 Caleb Ewan
+16 Nacer Bouhanni
+16 Miles Scotson
+16 Jonas Rickaert
+16 Jonas Koch
+16 Davide Ballerini
+15 Wout Van Aert
+15 Stefan Bissegger
+15 Richard Carapaz

Biggest losers by position :
-31 Warren Barguil
-27 Daniel Oss
-26 Valentin Madouas
-23 Dries Devenyns
-20 Alex Aranburu
-19 Brent Van Moer
-19 Thomas De Gendt
-17 Maxime Chevalier
-16 Jorge Arcas
-16 Primoz Roglic
-16 Simon Clarke

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Tim Merlier
+0:06 Jasper Philipsen
+0:04 Nacer Bouhanni

Biggest losers by time :
-8:36 Marco Haller
-8:01 Ide Schelling
-7:39 Daniel Oss
-7:36 Clement Russo
-7:36 Jasper De Buyst
-6:39 Daniel Mclay
-6:37 Warren Barguil
-6:08 Roger Kluge
-6:07 Thomas De Gendt
-5:28 Mark Cavendish
-5:21 Bryan Coquard

Favourites by position :
+15 Richard Carapaz
+6 Nairo Quintana
+4 Enric Mas
+2 Richie Porte
+2 Geraint Thomas
+2 Alejandro Valverde
+1 Rigoberto Uran
-3 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-3 Tadej Pogacar
-5 Simon Yates
-9 Steven Kruijswijk
-9 Miguel Angel Lopez
-10 Tiesj Benoot
-16 Primoz Roglic

Favourites by time :
-0:14 Wilco Kelderman
-0:14 Nairo Quintana
-0:14 Enric Mas
-0:26 Tadej Pogacar
-0:26 Rigoberto Uran
-0:26 Richie Porte
-0:26 Geraint Thomas
-1:21 Steven Kruijswijk
-1:21 Primoz Roglic
-1:21 Miguel Angel Lopez
-1:21 Alejandro Valverde
-2:06 Tiesj Benoot
-2:11 Simon Yates
-2:46 Tao Geoghegan Hart

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 12:58:53 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:08 (unchanged)
3 Richard Carapaz 0:31 (was 18th at 0:31)
4 Wout Van Aert 0:31 (was 19th at 0:31)
5 Wilco Kelderman 0:38 (was 5th at 0:24)
6 Tadej Pogacar 0:39 (was 3rd at 0:13)
7 Enric Mas 0:40 (was 11th at 0:26)
8 Nairo Quintana 0:40 (was 14th at 0:26)
9 Pierre Latour 0:45 (was 17th at 0:31)
10 Sergio Higuita 0:52 (was 8th at 0:26)
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15 Rigoberto Uran 0:52 (was 16th at 0:26)
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18 Geraint Thomas 1:07 (was 20th at 0:41)
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20 Primoz Roglic 1:35 (was 4th at 0:14)
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37 Tiesj Benoot 3:23 (was 27th at 1:17)
38 Steven Kruijswijk 3:28 (was 29th at 2:07)
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41 Richie Porte 3:34 (was 43rd at 3:08)
42 Miguel Angel Lopez 3:43 (was 33rd at 2:22)
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60 Alejandro Valverde 7:12 (was 62nd at 5:51)
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62 Simon Yates 7:22 (was 57th at 5:11)
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99 Tao Geoghegan Hart 12:17 (was 96th at 9:31)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Julian Alaphilippe 80 (was 1st with 66 points)
2 Mathieu Van Der Poel 62 (was 2nd with 50 points)
3 Tim Merlier 50 (was 0 points)
4 Michael Matthews 50 (was 3rd with 45 points)
5 Tadej Pogacar 44 (was 4th with 44 points)
6 Jasper Philipsen 41 (was 27th with 7 points)
7 Primoz Roglic 40 (was 5th with 40 points)
8 Caleb Ewan 37 (was 8th with 26 points)
9 Wilco Kelderman 34 (was 6th with 34 points)
10 Nacer Bouhanni 33 (was 21st with 13 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Ide Schelling 5 (was 2nd with 4 points)
2 Mathieu Van Der Poel 4 (was 1st with 4 points)
3 Anthony Perez 3 (unchanged)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 2 (unchanged)
5 Edward Theuns 2 (unchanged)
6 Tadej Pogacar 2 (unchanged)
7 Victor Campenaerts 1 (unchanged)
8 Danny Van Poppel 1 (unchanged)
9 Jelle Wallays 1 (was 0 points)
10 Michael Matthews 1 (was 9th with 1 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 38:59:09 (was 3rd at 0:43)
2 Team Jumbo-Visma 1:33 (was 1st at 26:53:36)
3 Trek - Segafredo 1:43 (was 4th at 1:46)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 1:59 (was 2nd at 0:32)
5 EF Education - Nippo 2:02 (was 5th at 1:53)
6 Team BikeExchange 2:20 (was 6th at 2:23)
7 INEOS Grenadiers 2:42 (was 7th at 2:59)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:56 (was 9th at 4:39)
9 Movistar Team 4:26 (was 8th at 3:34)
10 BORA - hansgrohe 6:46 (was 10th at 7:15)
11 Team DSM 7:24 (was 14th at 8:33)
12 Alpecin-Fenix 7:27 (was 15th at 8:36)
13 Team Arkea Samsic 8:04 (was 13th at 8:33)
14 AG2R Citroen Team 8:07 (was 11th at 7:58)
15 B&B Hotels p/b KTM 8:54 (was 12th at 8:27)
16 Team TotalEnergies 9:01 (was 16th at 9:42)
17 Groupama - FDJ 10:08 (was 18th at 10:25)
18 UAE-Team Emirates 10:30 (was 17th at 10:21)
19 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 13:57 (was 20th at 14:24)
20 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 14:51 (was 19th at 11:16)
21 Team Qhubeka NextHash 16:31 (was 21th at 17:12)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 21:30 (was 22th at 19:55)
23 Lotto Soudal 31:12 (was 23th at 27:12)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 3 <<<
Robert Gesink (Team Jumbo-Visma) 3 <<<
Marc Soler (Movistar Team) 2
Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels p/b KTM) 1
Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama - FDJ) 1
Jasha Sutterlin (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 6