Tour de Suisse 2024 Stage 3

June 11, 2024 More of a day for the puncheurs as the organizers threw in a few Category 3 climbs near the finish. Five riders got in the break, a familiar face from yesterday was Luca Jenni. He was with his teammate from the Swiss National Team, Christoph Janssen, along with Johan Jacobs of Movistar, Roberto González of Corratec-Vini Fantini, and Fabian Lienhard of Groupama-FDJ. They had a maximum lead of 4 minutes but that had been reduced to 3 minutes with 70KM remaining. Jayco AlUla and EF-Education EasyPost were keen to make the race hard. Over the first climb at 33.4KM to go, they pushed the pace, dropping riders from the bunch and bringing the break's lead down to 20 seconds. Jacobs was the last one caught with 18KM remaining. Given the pace in the peloton, it was still a large group that went into the final 2KM, 7% climb at 12KM to go. A few attempts to get clear were controlled as nearly 100 riders went over the top towards the finish line on the shores of lake Zurich. Marc Hirschi of UAE attacked on a steep kicker, 3KM from the line. Alpecin-Deceuninck and Decathlon AG2R led the chase, reeling Hirchi in at 800M. Wilco Kelderman of Visma-Lease a Bike led the strung out bunch through the final corner at 250M. Thibau Nys of Lidl-Trek started his sprint from second wheel, coming passed Kelderman and holding off Stephen Williams of Israel-Premier Tech and Alberto Bettiol of EF-Education EasyPost to take his first World Tour win and continue his sparkling season. Bettiol's high finish gave him enough bonus seconds to take over the GC leader's jersey.