Tom-Jelte Slagter (Cannondale-Garmin) won the first of two newly introduced summit finishes at the Tour of Alberta, during stage 3 in Miette Hot Springs located in the Jasper National Park. The Dutchman made his winning move following a series of attacks within in the last kilometre and finished just ahead of Bauke Mollema (Trek Factory Racing), who was closing in on his compatriot in the last hundred metres but ran out of road to narrowly miss the win. Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) placed third on the day.
"We looked in the book and we knew that today would be good for me," Slagter said. "We tried our best and we won it. We knew that it would be hard in the finish. I think at one kilometre to go there were only three guys in front of me and everyone looked around, everyone was tired. With 500 metres to go, I thought that was the moment to go. I was looking at the others and I thought that everyone was at their limit, so that was the best moment for me to go.
"It’s always nice racing with a victory in the pocket because that pressure is gone. Tomorrow will be full on again."
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Mollema moved back into the overall race lead by six seconds ahead of Yates and 20 seconds ahead of Sergey Lagutin (Team Katusha). He had taken the first leader’s jersey following Trek Factory Racing’s win in the stage 1 team time trial but lost it to Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge), who won stage 2 in Grande Prairie.
The Tour of Alberta will continue on Saturday with the stage 4 circuit race held inside Jasper National Park. The race will end with the second summit finish of the event, at the Marmot Basin Ski Area, which includes a 12km ascent that finishes at more than 1,600 metres of elevation.
How it unfolded
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