Renewi Tour: Jonathan Milan outsprints Jasper Philipsen for stage 3 victory

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In a near carbon copy finish to stage 1, Jonathan Milan (lidl-Trek) doubled up on wins at the Renewi Tour on stage 3, kicking away from Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) from the wheel of the Belgian’s lead-out man’ Mathieu van der Poel before holding his lead all the way to the line in Ardooie.

Philipsen got his positioning all wrong in the final kilometre as he was forced to move up in the wheels to get up to Milan, who was waiting in Van der Poel’s slipstream to pounce, and when the Italian launched, Philipsen had to go the long way round his teammate and was unable to close the gap.