Pascal Eenkhoorn of LottoNL-Jumbo has won the third stage
of the Colorado Classic.
Gavin Mannion of UnitedHealthCare was in the blue jersey for
a third 161.9km stage which started and finished in Velorama.
British rider Hugh Carthy of EF Education, Joe
Dombrowski, Damien Howson, Dan Martinez, Tom Skujins, Brayan Sanchez and Jelly
Belly’s Keegan Swirbul broke after Joe Lewis had taken the first sprint and Martinez
the points on the Lookout Mountain climb, were 1.20 ahead of the peloton with
65kms to go.
On to the India Hills climb and the lead was at 1.05 with
an average speed for the first three hours of 41.5kmh.
The gap dropped to under a minute with twenty kilometres
left as the break pushed on with Skujins, Howson and Dombrowski and Carthy, who
took the sprint points going clear of the other three.
The gap to the peloton was fifteen seconds so Sergei
Tvetcov jumped out of the pack and made it into the break.
Tom Skujijns attacked heading into Downtown Denver with Tvetcov
joining him. However, the pack caught them and LottoNL-Jumbo’s Pascal Eenkhoorn
came up to take the win in 3.42.54 ahead of Avila and race leader Gavin
Mannion.
Kev Monks for Digital Sports Group
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