Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM) received stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse Ladies from Vevey to Champagne, rolling by the end along with her teammate Kasia Niewiadoma in second place. Femke de Vries (Visma-Lease a Bike) outsprinted Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) for third place.
Bradbury and Elena Pirrone (Roland) had gone on a breakaway with 102km to go and have been joined by Niewiadoma, Spratt, and De Vries on the second climb of the day. Working collectively, the 5 escapees constructed a three-minute hole on the peloton, and on the ultimate climb, Niewiadoma and Bradbury pulled forward.
Niewiadoma led 22-year-old Australian teammate up the climb and down the descent earlier than sitting up on the ending straight to let Bradbury take her first skilled victory.
Within the peloton, an acceleration by yellow jersey Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) on the ultimate climb dropped everybody however Elisa Longo Borghini, Gaia Realini (each Lidl-Trek), and Kim Cadzow (EF Training-Cannondale).
Bradbury additionally moved as much as second total. Going into the ultimate stage, Vollering has a GC lead of 1:22 minutes on Bradbury, 1:26 minutes on Longo Borghini, and 1:28 minutes on Realini.
“It’s loopy, I didn’t suppose firstly of at this time that I might be successful this stage. We actually wished to make it a tough race and win the stage, that’s what we did, it’s nice. The plan was to let me get the win to get the bonus seconds for GC, it could have been good to provide Kasia the win as a result of she was actually sturdy on the market,” mentioned Bradbury.