Visma win Auvergne team time-trial but Baudin keeps yellow / Photo: Anne-Christine POUJOULAT - AFP
Visma win Auvergne team time-trial but Baudin keeps yellow
American Matteo Jorgenson led Visma-Lease a Bike over the line to win Tuesday's 28km team time-trial on stage three of the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes as Frenchman Alex Baudin retained the overall leader's yellow jersey.
Baudin, who won Sunday's opening stage, led his EF Education-Easy Post team to a third-placed finish in the third stage, 29 seconds off Visma's time.
That was enough to give him a 12sec lead over Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin and Briton Oscar Onley in the overall standings after they led Netcompany Ineos to a second-placed finish on the day around Perreux.
Jorgenson, a twice former winner of Paris-Nice, moved up to fourth overall at 15sec.
But pre-race favourite Paul Seixas, the teenage French prodigy, lost 45 seconds with his Decathlon CMA CGM team finishing sixth, while overall contenders Juan Ayuso and Isaac Del Toro lost 32 and 61 seconds respectively.
Spaniard Ayuso and his Danish Lidl-Trek team-mate Mattias Skjelmose moved up to fifth and sixth overall at 47sec, with Seixas now 12th at 1min and Mexican Del Toro 16th at 1min 16sec.
M.Martin--PI
