After narrowly missing out the first two stages, Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) powered to victory in Nanning to claim stage 3 at Tour of Guangxi.
Alexandr Riabushenko (UAE Team Emirates) finished in second place, while Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) took third place for the third day in a row.
“We wanted to come here to win a stage, and now we’ve achieved that,” said Ackermann. “After my two second places on the first few stages, I feel less pressure now that I’ve taken a win here.”
Sunday’s stage finishes with a climb to the line and so the GC is likely to shake up as the sprinters cool their jets.
Tour of Guangxi 2019 – stage 3 results (Nanning – Nanning):
| 1 | Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) | 3:19:21 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Riabushenko (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 3 | Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 4 | Nikias Arndt (Team Sunweb) | ,, |
| 5 | Petr Vakoc (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
| 6 | Lilian Calmejane (Total Direct Energie) | ,, |
| 7 | Sep Vanmarcke (EF Education First) | ,, |
| 8 | Kiel Reijnen (Trek – Segafredo) | ,, |
| 9 | Davide Martinelli (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
| 10 | Merhawi Kudus (Astana) | ,, |
