Deutschland Tour 2024 Stage 3

August 24, 2024 The longest stage of the race takes the riders 211KM from Schwäbisch Gmünd to Villingen-Schwenningen over four categorized climbs totaling 3400M of elevation and finishing with a local lap. A break of 5 got up the road including Dawit Yemane of Bike Aid, Jørgen Nordhagen of Visma-Lease a Bike, Taco van der Hoorn of Intermarché-Wanty, Marius Mayrhofer of Tudor Pro Cycling and Mattéo Vercher of TotalEnergies. Yemane dropped away after the last categorized climb but the four remaining riders had 3 minutes 25 seconds with 77KM to go. A steep uncategorized climb with 62KM to go teased out an attack from the peloton by Santiago Buitrago of Bahrain-Victorious but he was caught in a chasse patates, 45 seconds behind the original break and 1 minute 15 seconds ahead of the peloton. Buitrago finally made it to the leaders with 37KM to go but he would have burned a lot of energy doing so. Buitrago continued his attacking by going again with 16KM to go, this time taking just Vercher with him. Gil Gelders of T-Rex Quickstep, Jonas Rutsch of EF-Education EasyPost and Toms Skujiņš of Lidl-Trek chipped off the peloton and bridged to Vercher and Buitrago at 11.5KM to go. The race reset however just a kilometer later when the peloton brought them all back before the final local lap and the bonus seconds sprint. Lidl-Trek controlled to crazy final few kilometers with Mads Pedersen doing a long final pull from 1KM to 250M. Jonathan Milan started his sprint, revving the pedals as fast as he could manage. He crossed the line with a clean set of wheels to take the fourth win as many days. Max Kanter of Astana fought for Milan's wheel the entire way in and was rewarded with a second place, Jordi Meeus of Redbull-Bora Hansgrohe was just behind in third.