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Jumbo-Visma’s domination at the 2023 Tour of Britain continued on stage 3 in Beverley as race leader Olav Kooij won his third stage in a row, beating Danny van Poppel (Bora-Hansgrohe) to the line after another impeccable lead-out from his Dutch team.
The 21-year-old secured his 10th win of the season after jumping off teammate Wout van Aert’s wheel on the rising road to the line at the end of the 155km stage, holding off Bennett and Ethan Vernon (Great Britain) to secure Jumbo-Visma’s 55th victory of 2023.
The team controlled the peloton for much of the day and were back to the fore in the final kilometres as the likes of Edoardo Affini and Nathan Van Hooydonck led the way for Van Aert and Kooij to repeat what they’d done in the opening two days of the race.
Leading from the front, there was once again little chance that any other sprinter would be beating Kooij, with Van Poppel managing to get closer than anyone had on stages 1 and 2, at least.
155km earlier, right at the start of the race, the trio of James Fouché (Bolton Equities Black Spoke), Harry Tanfield (TDT-Unibet), and Nícolas Sessler (Global 6) formed the break of the day. Mountain classification leader Fouché was striving to collect more points on the two classified climbs on the day as the break’s advantage maxed out at the three-minute mark
Jumbo-Visma controlled the front of the peloton for race leader and double stage winner Olav Kooij, while up front Fouché duly picked up eight more KOM points at the two third-category climbs of the day.
Those climbs – 40 and 80km into the stage – were the main events of a largely quiet day up the road for the break, with Tanfield leading the way over the day’s only intermediate sprint after 110km. By that point, what was once a three-minute…
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