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Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) has captured a crash-marred stage 3 of Tirreno Adriatico, a rugged 225-kilometre trek between Volterra and Gualdo Tadino, with stage 2 winner Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceunink) one of the fallers within sight of the line.
Second on the draggy uphill rise to the finish was Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), with Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B) in third.
A pronounced acceleration by EF Education-EasyPost on the one classified climb of the day, the Casacatalda, shrank the bunch to some 80 riders late on and denting a lot of sprinters’ ambitions.
Even as the slope reared again in the closing kilometres, Philipsen remained stubbornly close to the front, but a crash on a sweeping left-hand bend left the Belgian sprinter on the ground and out of contention.
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