Tanel Kangert attacks to win stage three of the Abu Dhabi Tour, all but sealing the overall win

Nicolas Roche could not stay with the Astana rider, whose stage win should see him take the overall victory

Photo: Graham Watson

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Tanel Kangert (Astana) won stage three of the Abu Dhabi Tour, all but sealing the overall classification in the process.

The Estonian broke clear with Nicholas Roche (Tinkoff) on the Jebel Hafeet climb that stage three finished atop, and the pair distanced the rest of the rapidly-reducing peloton.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.