Belgium Jasper Phillipsen (Alpecin Deceuninck) enjoyed a sweet sprint victory in the third stage of the 187.4km Tour de France between Amorebieta-Etxano and Bayonne, the chocolate capital of France. British Adam Yates held the yellow jersey (UAE Emirates).

The first open duel between the peloton’s great sprinters Knowing how to capitalize on the launch of teammate Van der Poel, Philipsen (Ham, 25 years old) finished off with an even bigger prize, his third and seventh victory of the season in the Tour de France.

Having to observe a possible mismanagement that eliminated Van Aert in the arrival video, Philipsen outpaced Germany’s Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto Dstny) and Dutch European champion Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal) on the straight. Mark Cavendish sprints to seek 35 wins recordbut “Express of Man” placed sixth.

Respecting the day of the ‘Cheetahs’, it’s a truce day for the favourites, without any war. Adam Yates continues to smile in a yellow jersey 6 seconds ahead of his Slovenian teammate. Tadej Pogacar and his brother Simon Yates. Spaniard Carlos Rodríguez is ninth and Mikel Landa is eleventh, 22 seconds behind.

General classification of the Tour de France

  1. Adam Yates IAD 13:52:33

  2. Tadej Pogacar UAD +0:06

  3. Simon Yates JAY +0:06

  4. Victor Lafay COF +0:12

  5. Wout van Aert TJV +0:16

  6. Jonas Vingegaard TJV +0:17

  7. Michael Woods IPT +0:22

  8. Jai Hindley NOH +0:22

  9. Carlos Rodriguez IGD+0:22

  10. Mattias Skjelmose TFS +0:22

  11. Mikel Landa TBV +0:22

  12. David Gaudu GFC+0:22

  13. Wilco Kelderman TJV +0:22

  14. Romain Bardet DSM +0:43

  15. Thomas Pidcock IGD +0:43

  16. Steff Cras ON +0:43

  17. Peio Bilbao TBV +0:43

  18. Egan Arley Bernal IGD +0:43

  19. Emanuel Buchmann BOH +0:43

  20. Guilio Ciccone TREK +0:43