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Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour de Luxembourg Four man break slips clear on tough finishing circuit Vacansoleil DCM rider Wout Poels triumphed on today’s third stage of the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg, winning a three man sprint against RadioShack Nissan riders Jakob Fuglsang and Fränk Schleck. Fuglsang takes over the leader's jersey from Jimmy Engoulvent.



“I have been feeling good all week and this is a fantastic result,” said Poels, who triumphed despite being away with the RadioShack Nissan duo and their team-mate Andreas Kloden.



The stage was aggressive from the very start. Jérôme Cousin attacked from the gun and four riders followed him, namely mountains leader Albert Timmer (Argos Shimano), Jens Debusschere (Lotto-Belisol), Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent Jobs-Willems Veranda's) and Matthew Hayman (Team Sky). The five got a maximum lead of over 7 minutes but then Radioshack brought that back to a manageable three minutes. Meanwhile Timmer picked up enough points to secure his green mountain jersey until the end of the race tomorrow.



This hardest stage in the Tour of Luxembourg from Eschweiler to Differdange (205.4 km) finished with three local 9.5 kilometre loops including the Col de l'Europe. The 1.5 kilometre climb averaged 7.6% and proved to be decisive, as Poels explained afterwards. "Klöden attacked first and was followed by Fränk Schleck. I followed with Jakob Fuglsang," he said. "I knew Fuglsang was two seconds ahead of me in the overall so I decided to go for a stage win. If I would have attacked against three of them I would have ended up with nothing and I knew I could beat them in the sprint.”



The result marks a successful return to competition for him. “I haven't been racing since Liège-Bastogne-Liège. I had my wisdom teeth removed, trained with Lieuwe Westra in Spain and we did a recon of the Tour de France stages with part of the team. It's good to be back racing.”



Jakob Fuglsang did what team manager Kim Andersen asked of his riders: go for the overall. "The guys worked so hard all day. Every time Laurent Didier, Jens Voigt or Linus Gerdemann increased the tempo on the climbs they rode so hard that only 50 riders remained in the peloton. That's what the plan was, this morning." the Danish rider said. "Then we saved Maxime Monfort and Grégory Rast for the local laps.



“On the Col de l'Europe Kloedi went with Fränk, and Wout Poels jumped after them just after the top. My job for the day was to stay with him because we knew he was dangerous. The most important was the overall. I tried on the last climb on Col de l'Europe to get rid of Poels but it didn't work. Fränk pulled hard for the finish but unfortunately I couldn't beat Poels in the sprint."



The Skoda Tour de Luxembourg finishes on Sunday with a 153.5 kilometre long stage to the capital.



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Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article Skoda Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3 Results: Eschweiler to Differdange, 205.4km: Click on the arrows at the top of the column to sort the race results. Country Result Name Team Time NED 1 Wout Poels (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 05:01:11 DEN 2 Jakob Fuglsang (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. LUX 3 Frank Schleck (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. CAN 4 Michael Barry (Sky Procycling) 00:00:24 ITA 5 Salvatore Puccio (Sky Procycling) s.t. FRA 6 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) s.t. LUX 7 Ben Gastauer (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. FRA 8 Thomas Damuseau (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 9 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. NED 10 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 11 Sebastien Delfosse (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. BEL 12 Eliot Lietaer (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. JPN 13 Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar) s.t. BEL 14 Maxime Monfort (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. SUI 15 Martin Elmiger (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. FRA 16 Jonathan Hivert (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. NED 17 Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) s.t. DEN 18 Brian Vandborg (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. GER 19 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. BEL 20 Jurgen Van Goolen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. CAN 21 David Veilleux (Europcar) s.t. LUX 22 Bob Jungels (Leopard TREK) s.t. USA 23 Lucas Euser (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 24 Laurens De Vreese (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:00:54 FRA 25 Yann Huguet (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 26 Romain Lemarchand (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. BEL 27 Kristof Goddaert (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:02:03 BEL 28 Johan Coenen (Team Differdange) s.t. NED 29 Koen De Kort (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:06 SWE 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Team Differdange) s.t. GER 31 Sascha Weber (Team Differdange) s.t. ESP 32 Jose Vicente Toribio (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. USA 33 Caleb Fairly (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. FRA 34 Yannick Talabardon (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. FRA 35 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) s.t. NED 36 Dirk Bellemakers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. BEL 37 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 38 Nico Sijmens (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. DEN 39 Martin Mortensen (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. LAT 40 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:02:57 SWE 41 Tobias Ludvigsson (Argos-Shimano) s.t. ESP 42 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. FRA 43 Arnaud Labbe (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. BEL 44 Gregory Habeaux (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. FIN 45 Matti Helminen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. ESP 46 Rafael Valls Ferri (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. FRA 47 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. CAN 48 Will Routley (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 49 Kevyn Ista (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:03:26 LUX 50 Joel Zangerle (Leopard TREK) 00:03:32 BEL 51 Steven Caethoven (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. ESP 52 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:05:06 ESP 53 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:06:46 LUX 54 Christian Helmig () 00:07:31 AUS 55 Mathew Hayman (Sky Procycling) s.t. FRA 56 Jean-marc Marino (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. NZL 57 Alex Meenhorst (Team Differdange) 00:08:30 ESP 58 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. BEL 59 Gilles Devillers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. RSA 60 Jaco Venter (Team Differdange) s.t. SUI 61 Gregory Rast (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. IRI 62 Amir Zargari (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. ESP 63 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. NED 64 Roy Curvers (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 65 Florent Barle (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. GER 66 Jens Voigt (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. GBR 67 Luke Rowe (Sky Procycling) s.t. ESP 68 Eloy Ruiz Pinto (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. NED 69 Tom Stamsnijder (Argos-Shimano) s.t. BEL 70 Jens Debusschere (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. BEL 71 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. NED 72 Albert Timmer (Argos-Shimano) s.t. FRA 73 Yohann Gène (Europcar) s.t. FRA 74 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) s.t. FRA 75 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) s.t. BEL 76 Vincent Baestaens (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:10:31 BEL 77 Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:12:13 ESP 78 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:12:41 ESP 79 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Andalucia - Caja Granada) s.t. BEL 80 Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:16:11 BEL 81 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. GER 82 Marcel Sieberg (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. FRA 83 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 84 Kevin Van Melsen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. BEL 85 Frederique Robert (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. IRI 86 Mehdi Sohrabi (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. RUS 87 Boris Shpilevsky (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. LUX 88 Tom Thill (Team Differdange) s.t. LUX 89 Lex Reichling () s.t. LUX 90 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. FRA 91 Saïd Haddou (Europcar) s.t. GER 92 Andre Greipel (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. LUX 93 Jean-pierre Drucker (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. GER 94 Linus Gerdemann (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. POR 95 Bruno Sandinha Saraiva (Team Differdange) s.t. AUS 96 Christopher Sutton (Sky Procycling) s.t. FRA 97 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. BEL 98 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. ITA 99 Davide Appollonio (Sky Procycling) s.t. RUS 100 Nikita Novikov (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. BEL 101 Jonas Van Genechten (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. FRA 102 Christophe Laborie (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. NED 103 Arnoud Van Groen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. BEL 104 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. LUX 105 Alex Kirsch (Leopard TREK) s.t. BEL 106 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. ITA 107 Massimo Morabito () s.t. FRA 108 Jimmy Casper (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. LUX 109 Kevin Feiereisen () s.t. FRA 110 Adrien Petit (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. BEL 111 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. CAN 112 Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. BEL 113 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 114 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. FRA 115 Rony Martias (Saur - Sojasun) s.t. GBR 116 Ben Swift (Sky Procycling) s.t. GBR 117 Alex Dowsett (Sky Procycling) s.t. CAN 118 Ryan Anderson (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. SUI 119 Raimond Künzli (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. LTU DNF Gediminas Kaupas (Team Differdange) FRA DNF Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) FRA DNF Jeremie Galland (Saur - Sojasun) LUX DNF Pit Schlechter (Leopard TREK) NED DNF Reinier Honig (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) NED DNF Stefan Cohnen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) General classification after stage 3: Country Result Name Team Time DEN 1 Jakob Fuglsang (RadioShack - Nissan) 14:28:17 NED 2 Wout Poels (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:00:02 LUX 3 Frank Schleck (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:05 FRA 4 Jonathan Hivert (Saur - Sojasun) 00:00:20 NED 5 Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) 00:00:24 FRA 6 Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:00:25 BEL 7 Sebastien Delfosse (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:00:28 BEL 8 Maxime Monfort (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:29 LUX 9 Bob Jungels (Leopard TREK) s.t. SUI 10 Martin Elmiger (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:00:32 GER 11 Andréas Klöden (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:00:34 ITA 12 Salvatore Puccio (Sky Procycling) 00:00:36 CAN 13 Michael Barry (Sky Procycling) 00:00:37 BEL 14 Jurgen Van Goolen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:00:39 BEL 15 Eliot Lietaer (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:00:40 DEN 16 Brian Vandborg (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:00:41 FRA 17 Vincent Jerome (Europcar) s.t. NED 18 Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. JPN 19 Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar) 00:00:43 LUX 20 Ben Gastauer (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:00:44 USA 21 Lucas Euser (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:00:45 FRA 22 Thomas Damuseau (Argos-Shimano) 00:00:48 CAN 23 David Veilleux (Europcar) 00:00:58 BEL 24 Laurens De Vreese (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:01:03 FRA 25 Romain Lemarchand (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:01:09 FRA 26 Yann Huguet (Argos-Shimano) 00:01:15 DEN 27 Martin Mortensen (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:02:09 NED 28 Koen De Kort (Argos-Shimano) 00:02:12 FRA 29 Alexandre Pichot (Europcar) s.t. GER 30 Sascha Weber (Team Differdange) 00:02:13 NED 31 Dirk Bellemakers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) s.t. BEL 32 Kristof Goddaert (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:02:16 SWE 33 Jonas Ljungblad (Team Differdange) s.t. BEL 34 Nico Sijmens (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:02:17 BEL 35 Johan Coenen (Team Differdange) 00:02:21 USA 36 Caleb Fairly (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:02:24 FRA 37 Yannick Talabardon (Saur - Sojasun) 00:02:25 BEL 38 Bjorn Leukemans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:02:26 ESP 39 Jose Vicente Toribio (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:02:31 LAT 40 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:02:58 SWE 41 Tobias Ludvigsson (Argos-Shimano) 00:03:00 CAN 42 Will Routley (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:03:04 FRA 43 Arnaud Labbe (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:03:07 FRA 44 David Lelay (Saur - Sojasun) 00:03:08 FIN 45 Matti Helminen (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:03:13 ESP 46 Rafael Valls Ferri (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:03:18 ESP 47 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:03:24 BEL 48 Kevyn Ista (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:03:34 BEL 49 Steven Caethoven (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:03:56 LUX 50 Joel Zangerle (Leopard TREK) 00:03:57 BEL 51 Gregory Habeaux (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:04:39 ESP 52 Adrian Palomares Villaplana (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:05:25 ESP 53 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:06:50 AUS 54 Mathew Hayman (Sky Procycling) 00:07:29 LUX 55 Christian Helmig () 00:07:45 FRA 56 Jean-marc Marino (Saur - Sojasun) 00:07:47 SUI 57 Gregory Rast (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:08:26 FRA 58 Damien Gaudin (Europcar) 00:08:30 GBR 59 Luke Rowe (Sky Procycling) 00:08:37 BEL 60 Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:08:40 NZL 61 Alex Meenhorst (Team Differdange) s.t. RSA 62 Jaco Venter (Team Differdange) 00:08:41 FRA 63 Jérôme Cousin (Europcar) 00:08:42 BEL 64 Jens Debusschere (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:08:43 NED 65 Tom Stamsnijder (Argos-Shimano) 00:08:44 BEL 66 Gilles Devillers (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:08:45 NED 67 Roy Curvers (Argos-Shimano) 00:08:49 ESP 68 Jesus Rosendo Prado (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:08:50 IRI 69 Amir Zargari (Ag2R - La Mondiale) 00:08:51 FRA 70 Florent Barle (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) s.t. ESP 71 Eloy Ruiz Pinto (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:08:56 ESP 72 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:09:07 FRA 73 Yohann Gène (Europcar) s.t. NED 74 Albert Timmer (Argos-Shimano) 00:09:58 BEL 75 Vincent Baestaens (Landbouwkrediet - Euphony) 00:11:04 BEL 76 Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:12:45 GER 77 Jens Voigt (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:12:47 ESP 78 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:12:50 ESP 79 Antonio Cabello Baena (Andalucia - Caja Granada) 00:14:22 FRA 80 Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur - Sojasun) 00:16:04 GER 81 Marcel Sieberg (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:16:11 FRA 82 Jimmy Casper (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. LUX 83 Jean-pierre Drucker (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:16:12 BEL 84 Steven Van Vooren (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:16:13 FRA 85 Adrien Petit (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:16:15 GER 86 Andre Greipel (Lotto - Belisol Team) s.t. FRA 87 Christophe Laborie (Saur - Sojasun) 00:16:16 FRA 88 Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) s.t. GBR 89 Ben Swift (Sky Procycling) 00:16:17 BEL 90 Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:16:19 ITA 91 Davide Appollonio (Sky Procycling) 00:16:24 BEL 92 Michael Van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. CAN 93 Ryan Anderson (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. GER 94 Linus Gerdemann (RadioShack - Nissan) s.t. LUX 95 Laurent Didier (RadioShack - Nissan) 00:16:25 LUX 96 Alex Kirsch (Leopard TREK) 00:16:26 AUS 97 Christopher Sutton (Sky Procycling) s.t. NED 98 Arnoud Van Groen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) s.t. FRA 99 Saïd Haddou (Europcar) 00:16:27 SUI 100 Raimond Künzli (Spidertech Powered By C10) s.t. LUX 101 Tom Thill (Team Differdange) 00:16:28 BEL 102 Preben Van Hecke (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:16:29 RUS 103 Nikita Novikov (Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team) 00:16:33 BEL 104 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) s.t. FRA 105 Tristan Valentin (Cofidis - Le Credit En Ligne) 00:16:34 POR 106 Bruno Sandinha Saraiva (Team Differdange) 00:16:37 CAN 107 Guillaume Boivin (Spidertech Powered By C10) 00:16:42 BEL 108 Kevin Van Melsen (Accent.jobs – Willems Veranda’s) 00:18:05 LUX 109 Lex Reichling () 00:19:10 BEL 110 Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:21:25 BEL 111 Jonas Van Genechten (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:21:35 ITA 112 Massimo Morabito () 00:22:25 BEL 113 Kenny De Ketele (Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator) 00:22:27 IRI 114 Mehdi Sohrabi (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:22:43 RUS 115 Boris Shpilevsky (Ag2R - La Mondiale) s.t. GBR 116 Alex Dowsett (Sky Procycling) 00:24:03 BEL 117 Frederique Robert (Lotto - Belisol Team) 00:25:13 LUX 118 Kevin Feiereisen () 00:26:29 FRA 119 Rony Martias (Saur - Sojasun) 00:26:30

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