RACE REPORTS: ENECO TOUR STAGE 3: BOONEN IS BACK!

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RACE REPORTS: ENECO TOUR STAGE 3: BOONEN IS BACK!
Road Bike Action
August 21, 2009

Boonen is back to his winning ways
(Photo: Yuzuru Sunada)

Belgian Tom Boonen, riding for Quick Step, won the third stage of the Eneco Tour at Hasselt on Friday, seeing off overall leader Tyler Farrar of Garmin in a sprint finish which saw Italian Francesco Chicchi take third spot.

"I had earmarked this stage and it's super to have won it," grinned Boonen. "It was really nice today to have been riding in my home region. We went right past past my parents' place and my village, my house, my training ground," he added. "The four weeks off after the Tour de France have really done me good. I expected a couple of bad days this week but actually things are going great," Boonen said.

The Belgian is now only 10-seconds behind Farrar, who won the opening two stages. Norwegian Edval Boasson Hagen is third overall 19-seconds off the pace 6-seconds clear of Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel.

Saturday's fourth stage in the ProTour event between Belgium and the Netherlands is a 221km ride from Hasselt to Libramont.

Eneco Tour Stage 3. 158.3km
1. Tom Boonen (Bel/Quick Step) 3:43:19
2. Tyler Farrar (USAGarmin-Slipstream) @ s.t.
3. Francesco Chicchi (Ita/Liquigas)
4. Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa/Caisse d'Epargne)
5. Alexei Markov (Rus/Team Katusha)
6. Matthew Harley Goss (Aus/Saxo Bank)
7. Mark Renshaw (Aus/Columbia-HTC)
8. Baden Cooke (Aus/Vacansoleil)
9. Robert Wagner (Ger/Skil-Shimano)
10. Alexandre Usov (Blr/Cofidis)

Overall Classification After Stage 3
1. Tyler Farrar (USA/Garmin-Slipstream) 12:24:22
2. Tom Boonen (Bel/Quick Step) @ .10
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Columbia-HTC) @ .19
4. Sylvain Chavanel (Fra/Quick Step) @ .25
5. Bradley Wiggins (GBr/Garmin-Slipstream) @ .27
6. Joost Posthuma (Ned/Rabobank) @ s.t.
7. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Liquigas) @ .29
8. Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa/Rabobank) @ s.t.
9. Maarten Tjallingii (Ned/Rabobank) @ .30
10. Nikolas Maes (Bel/Topsport Vlaanderen) @ s.t.

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