It's three out of three for Jakub "Kuba" Mareczko of Southeast at the Tour of Taihu Lake. The Italian outsprinted his compatriot Andrea Palini from Skydive Dubai on the banks of the Yang Tze river facing Shanghai, with Australia's Scott Sunderland sharing the honor on the podium for the second day in a row.
"This is the first time in my life as a cyclist to get three consecutive stage wins," Mareczko realized. "I'm happy. It shows my form is good at the moment. The team works for me every day. It's nice to pay them back with a third straight victory."
Stage 3 consisted of a 19km circuit to be covered seven times with a scenic route along China's famous delta. Three riders broke clear after three kilometers of racing: Ma Guangtong (Hengxiang), Sun Xiaolong (Giant-Champion System) and Roman Furst (Dukla Praha). They got a maximum advantage of 3:36 at km 30. Two chasers bridged the gap at km 67 and kept going instead of uniting their efforts with the three leaders but Bai Lijun (Giant-Champion System) and Leung Ka Tu (Hong Kong SI) didn't get more than 1:33 lead over the peloton successively led by Southeast, Torku and Kolss.
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Hong Kong's Ronald Yeung of Team Gusto was the last man to try his luck during the last lap but it was all together with 11.5km to go. "It was very fast," Sunderland said. "The race had been crazier in the early part today so there wasn't much energy left in the bunch. The last lap was very fast. We tried to hang back a little bit more, then come up and time it perfectly. Being fourth wheel at the last corner made it more challenging to stay on my lead out."
"The team is going in the right direction leading to the last few days in the Tour," the Budget Forklifts sprinter added. "Third again today, two times on the podium, I'm very happy with that but obviously we try and chase some win. Today was a good sign of what we have."
Mareczko looked unbeatable once again. "I was determined to do well again today as it was the same finishing straight as yesterday," said the 21-year-old born in Jaroslaw, Poland. "I adopted the same tactic as yesterday too with launching my sprint at the 200 metres to go mark. I was again led by [Andrea] Dal Col and I started in fourth position."
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