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Wednesday, April 9: Stage 3, Angers 6.8 km individual time trial

The Race: This was a split-stage day, with a short 88.3 km road race to Angers in the morning before a 6.8 km individual time trial. Going into the afternoon's time trial, French sprinter Nacer Bouhanni was the race leader.

Alex Dowsett, the British rider racing for Movistar, blazed the the time trial course at more than 50 km/hr, allowing him to win both the stage and the race lead.

Dowsett said that while he knows tomorrow's stage is difficult and that the French teams will be on the attack, the race presents an opportunity for him to win the overall.

Complete results:

Winner's average speed: 50.474 km/hr

1	Alex Dowsett	TEAM MOVISTAR	8min 5.37 seconds
2	Rohan Dennis	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:10.7
3	Ramunas Navardauskas	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:12.5
4	Anthony Delaplace	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:15.3
5	Arnaud Gerard	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:15.7
6	Kristof Vandewalle	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:17.7
7	Mathias Frank	IAM CYCLING	08:20.1
8	Anthony Roux	FDJ	08:20.9
9	Jérôme Coppel	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:21.9
10	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING	08:21.9
11	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:23.0
12	Reto Hollenstein	IAM CYCLING	08:23.1
13	Stephen Cummings	BMC RACING TEAM	08:23.1
14	Jesus Herrada Lopez	TEAM MOVISTAR	08:23.5
15	Tobias Ludvigsson	GIANT - SHIMANO	08:23.6
16	Giacomo Nizzolo	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:24.0
17	Thomas Dekker	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:26.5
18	Fabio Felline	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:26.8
19	Alexander Porsev	KATUSHA TEAM	08:27.1
20	José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios	TEAM MOVISTAR	08:27.9
21	Nathan Haas	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:28.6
22	Daniel Oss	BMC RACING TEAM	08:29.5
23	Thomas Voeckler	EUROPCAR	08:29.5
24	Boy Van Poppel	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:30.5
25	Alexis Gougeard	AG2R LA MONDIALE	08:31.1
26	Martin Kohler	BMC RACING TEAM	08:32.3
27	Bryan Coquard	EUROPCAR	08:32.3
28	Benoit Jarrier	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:32.6
29	Bryan Naulleau	EUROPCAR	08:32.6
30	Rudy Molard	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:32.7
31	Tiago Machado	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:33.1
32	Thierry Hupond	GIANT - SHIMANO	08:33.1
33	Patrick Gretsch	AG2R LA MONDIALE	08:33.5
34	Ben Hermans	BMC RACING TEAM	08:33.7
35	Brice Feillu	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:33.8
36	Lawson Craddock	GIANT - SHIMANO	08:34.0
37	Romain Lemarchand	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:34.7
38	Juan José Lobato	TEAM MOVISTAR	08:35.3
39	Francisco José Ventoso	TEAM MOVISTAR	08:36.3
40	Bartosz Huzarski	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:36.5
41	Angelo Tulik	EUROPCAR	08:37.0
42	Stefan Denifl	IAM CYCLING	08:37.1
43	Erick Rowsell	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:38.9
44	Alexey Tsatevitch	KATUSHA TEAM	08:39.0
45	Fabio Silvestre	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:39.7
46	Brent Bookwalter	BMC RACING TEAM	08:40.8
47	Tony Hurel	EUROPCAR	08:41.0
48	Nathan Brown	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:42.8
49	Juan Esteban Arango	COLOMBIA	08:43.3
50	Julien Berard	AG2R LA MONDIALE	08:43.8
51	Laurent Pichon	FDJ	08:43.9
52	Fabio Duque Leonardo	COLOMBIA	08:44.6
53	Victor Campenaerts	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	08:44.8
54	Jasha Sütterlin	TEAM MOVISTAR	08:44.8
55	Chad Haga	GIANT - SHIMANO	08:46.0
56	Fumiyuki Beppu	TREK FACTORY RACING	08:46.3
57	Yonder Godoy	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	08:46.3
58	Axel Domont	AG2R LA MONDIALE	08:46.7
59	Francis De Greef	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	08:47.4
60	Edwin Alcibiades Avila	COLOMBIA	08:47.6
61	Michel Kreder	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	08:48.4
62	Eliot Lietaer	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	08:48.6
63	Marco Minnaard	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	08:48.8
64	Phillip Gaimon	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	08:49.0
65	Thomas Lövkvist	IAM CYCLING	08:49.0
66	Romain Feillu	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:51.2
67	Rodolfo Andres Torres	COLOMBIA	08:51.3
68	Alexander Rybakov	KATUSHA TEAM	08:51.6
69	Jonas Ahlstrand	GIANT - SHIMANO	08:51.9
70	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:52.9
71	Jonathan Mcevoy	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:52.9
72	Pieter Jacobs	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	08:53.6
73	Stake Laengen Vegard	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	08:54.3
74	Johann Tschopp	IAM CYCLING	08:54.7
75	Alessio Taliani	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	08:55.4
76	Anthony Geslin	FDJ	08:55.5
77	Marco Frapporti	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	08:55.9
78	Frantisek Padour	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:56.2
79	Grégory Habeaux	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	08:57.3
80	Thomas Sprengers	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	08:57.3
81	Zico Waeytens	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	08:57.8
82	Guillaume Levarlet	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	08:58.2
83	Giovanni Bernaudeau	EUROPCAR	08:58.6
84	Marco Haller	KATUSHA TEAM	08:59.2
85	Michael Schwarzmann	Team NETAPP ENDURA	08:59.4
86	Yauheni Hutarovich	AG2R LA MONDIALE	08:59.6
87	Mikhail Ignatyev	KATUSHA TEAM	08:59.7
88	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM	09:00.0
89	Arthur Van Overberghe	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	09:02.6
90	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	09:04.1
91	Manuel Belletti	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	09:05.5
92	Emanuele Sella	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	09:06.6
93	Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ	09:09.7
94	Sébastien Chavanel	FDJ	09:09.9
95	Duber Arman Quintero	COLOMBIA	09:14.1
96	Francis Mourey	FDJ	09:18.0
97	Jose Ochoa Carlos	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	09:18.2
98	Pavel Kochetkov	KATUSHA TEAM	09:21.1
99	Jeffry Johan Romero	COLOMBIA	09:23.3
100	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE	09:25.2
101	Keong Loh Sea	GIANT - SHIMANO	09:29.4
102	Jérôme Gilbert	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	09:36.3

Complete GC after stage 3: 292.3 km raced so far at an average speed of 41.982 km/hr

1	Alex Dowsett	TEAM MOVISTAR	6hr 57min 45sec
2	Rohan Dennis	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	@ 5 seconds
3	Ramunas Navardauskas	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	7
4	Anthony Delaplace	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	10
5	Arnaud Gerard	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement
6	Kristof Vandewalle	TREK FACTORY RACING	12
7	Giacomo Nizzolo	TREK FACTORY RACING
8	Mathias Frank	IAM CYCLING	15
9	Anthony Roux	FDJ
10	Jérôme Coppel	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	16
11	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING
12	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	17
13	Reto Hollenstein	IAM CYCLING	18
14	Stephen Cummings	BMC RACING TEAM
15	Jesus Herrada Lopez	TEAM MOVISTAR
16	Tobias Ludvigsson	GIANT - SHIMANO
17	Thomas Dekker	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	21
18	Fabio Felline	TREK FACTORY RACING
19	Alexander Porsev	KATUSHA TEAM	22
20	Juan Jose Lobato	TEAM MOVISTAR
21	José Ivan Gutierrez	TEAM MOVISTAR
22	Nathan Haas	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	23
23	Thomas Voeckler	EUROPCAR	24
24	Boy Van Poppel	TREK FACTORY RACING	25
25	Alexis Gougeard	AG2R LA MONDIALE	26
26	Martin Kohler	BMC RACING TEAM	27
27	Bryan Coquard	EUROPCAR
28	Benoit Jarrier	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement
29	Bryan Naulleau	EUROPCAR
30	Rudy Molard	COFIDIS, solutions crédits
31	Tiago Machado	Team NETAPP ENDURA	28
32	Thierry Hupond	GIANT - SHIMANO
33	Patrick Gretsch	AG2R LA MONDIALE
34	Ben Hermans	BMC RACING TEAM
35	Brice Feillu	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement
36	Lawson Craddock	GIANT - SHIMANO
37	Romain Lemarchand	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	29
38	Francisco José Ventoso	TEAM MOVISTAR	31
39	Bartosz Huzarski	Team NETAPP ENDURA
40	Angelo Tulik	EUROPCAR
41	Stefan Denifl	IAM CYCLING	32
42	Tony Hurel	EUROPCAR
43	Erick Rowsell	Team NETAPP ENDURA	33
44	Alexey Tsatevitch	KATUSHA TEAM	34
45	Fabio Silvestre	TREK FACTORY RACING
46	Brent Bookwalter	BMC RACING TEAM	35
47	Nathan Brown	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	37
48	Juan Esteban Arango	COLOMBIA
49	Julien Berard	AG2R LA MONDIALE
50	Leonardo Fabio Duque	COLOMBIA	39
51	Victor Campenaerts	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE
52	Jasha Sütterlin	TEAM MOVISTAR	39
53	Jonas Ahlstrand	GIANT - SHIMANO	40
54	Chad Haga	GIANT - SHIMANO
55	Fumiyuki Beppu	TREK FACTORY RACING	41
56	Yonder Godoy	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI
57	Axel Domont	AG2R LA MONDIALE
58	Francis De Greef	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	42
59	Edwin Alcibiades Avila	COLOMBIA
60	Michel Kreder	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	43
61	Eliot Lietaer	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE
62	Thomas Lövkvist	IAM CYCLING	44
63	Daniel Oss	BMC RACING TEAM	45
64	Romain Feillu	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	46
65	Rodolfo Andres Torres	COLOMBIA
66	Thomas Sprengers	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE
67	Alexander Rybakov	KATUSHA TEAM
68	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	47
69	Pieter Jacobs	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	48
70	Stake Laengen Vegard	BRETAGNE - Séché Environnement	49
71	Johann Tschopp	IAM CYCLING
72	Alessio Taliani	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	50
73	Anthony Geslin	FDJ
74	Marco Frapporti	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI
75	Frantisek Padour	Team NETAPP ENDURA	51
76	Grégory Habeaux	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	52
77	Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ
78	Zico Waeytens	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE
79	Guillaume Levarlet	COFIDIS, solutions crédits	53
80	Michael Schwarzmann	Team NETAPP ENDURA
81	Yauheni Hutarovich	AG2R LA MONDIALE
82	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM
83	Arthur Van Overberghe	TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE	57
84	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	59
85	Emanuele Sella	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI
86	Manuel Belletti	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	1:00
87	Laurent Pichon	FDJ
88	Sébastien Chavanel	FDJ	1:04
89	Jose Ochoa Carlos	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI	1:13
90	Jeffry Johan Romero	COLOMBIA	1:18
91	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE	1:20
92	Jérôme Gilbert	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	1:31
93	Phillip Gaimon	TEAM GARMIN - SHARP	1:55
94	Francis Mourey	FDJ	2:47
95	Giovanni Bernaudeau	EUROPCAR	3:16
96	Jonathan Mcevoy	Team NETAPP ENDURA	4:24
97	Duber Arman Quintero	COLOMBIA	6:35
98	Marco Haller	KATUSHA TEAM	6:48
99	Marco Minnaard	WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT	6:52
100	Mikhail Ignatyev	KATUSHA TEAM	7:49
101	Keong Loh Sea	GIANT - SHIMANO	8:19
102	Pavel Kochetkov	KATUSHA TEAM	10:43