Volta Valenciana 2023: Simone Velasco wins from the breakaway on stage three

Italian capitalises on hesitation amongst the chasers to win the sprint from a reduced breakaway

Simone Velasco
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Simone Velasco (Astana Qazaqstan) won stage three of the Volta Valenciana after outsprinting his rivals in the remnants of the day's breakaway. 

For the entire five plus kilometres, the breakaway’s demise seemed inevitable with a rampaging Matej Mohorič on the front of the peloton with his Bahrain Victorious teammates looking to set up Fred Wright.

In the end, hesitation amongst the main field meant they were unable to get back on terms allowing the leaders to fight it out as the race flew into its final kilometre.

Velasco then had enough gas left in the tank to enable him to outsprint Bob Jungels and Jonas Wilsly (Uno-X). 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.