Simon Gerrans outpaces Peter Sagan to win stage three of Tour de France

Simon Gerrans and Peter Sagan, Tour de France 2013, stage three

Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) put the Australian team in the headlines for all the right reasons by winning stage three of the 2013 Tour de France into Calvi after 145 tricky kilometres.

Two days after the Orica-GreenEdge team bus was in the news, 33-year-old Gerrans outsprinted the hot favourite for the stage Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Movistar's rapid Jose Joaquin Rojas.

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