As it happened: A surprise late solo move takes the win in stage 3 of the Vuelta Femenina

In the meantime, we hope you enjoyed following the race with us and we’ll see you tomorrow, stage four rolls out at 14:05 local time, so we’ll be with you just before that.

Tuesday’s fourth stage sees the peloton tackle a 115.3km route between Monforte de Lemos and Antas De Ulla. For the third day running they’ll climb more than 2,000m, though this time there are two third category climbs, 96 and 31km from the line.
We could witness another reduced bunch sprint, though, with bigger time gaps a breakaway might be allowed its head.

As for Franziska Koch, she and her FDJ United-SUEZ team defended the red jersey brilliantly, the German herself battling to finish 15th to maintain the overall lead.
The team will be disappointed that Juliette Berthet lost 1.44, slipping down the GC, though fellow climber Évita Muzic remains in within touching ditance of the red jersey..

EF Education’s whole approach is perfect for a finish like today’s, allowing them to take advantage with aggressive unconventional moves which triumph over the more structured tactics of other teams.

Once again SD Worx-Protime were outwitted, they had numbers in the final, but were unable to take advantage after Kerbaol’s late, race winning move. Lotte Kopecky especially will be frustrated finishing second for the second time in three days and being relegated on the other day.

What a race EF Education-Oatly are having. They won the opening stage with Noemi Rüegg before the Swiss rider crashed out on yesterday’s second stage. Today they rode brilliantly, Kristen Faulkner attacking late on, Alice Towers making her own move before Kerbaol made the day hers.

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