Team Ineos took the lead of the pack during the first part of the Grand Colombier until it managed to reduced it considerably, but couldn’t get rid of many riders of Jumbo-Visma. Chris Froome turn in front finished with five kilometres to go, leaving Jumbo-Visma in control of the pace as only Egan Bernal remained for the British team.
With a bit more than two kilometres to go, Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) attacked and Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic), George Bennett, Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), Bernal and Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) stayed at his wheel.
In the last kilometre, Bernal attacked and Roglic followed, but the Colombian couldn’t hold the pace for much longer and the Slovenian national champion took the victory of the stage and the race.
“Today was again a hard day. Ineos did a really hard race with a hard tempo on all the climbs, but our team did a great job again, so I was able to just finish it,” said Roglic.
“Every race is nice to do after this lockdown, so I’m also looking forward to another one. My main ambition for the Tour de France is to put myself on as high a level as possible, and to try to grow together with the team and do as good a job as we can. That’s the main goal.”
Tour de l’Ain 2020 – stage 3 results (Saint-Vulbas – Grand Colombier):
| 1 | Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) | 4:06:24 |
| 2 | Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) | +04” |
| 3 | Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) | +06” |
| 4 | Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) | +08” |
| 5 | Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo | +16” |
| 6 | Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) | +23” |
| 7 | George Bennett (Jumbo-Visma) | +31” |
| 8 | Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) | +44” |
| 9 | Daniel Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation) | +01’16” |
| 10 | João Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | +01’58” |
Tour de l’Ain 2020 – final general classification:
| 1 | Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) | 11:21:12 |
| 2 | Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) | +18” |
| 3 | Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) | +28” |
| 4 | Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) | +56” |
| 5 | George Bennett (Jumbo-Visma) | +01’27” |
| 6 | Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) | +02’24” |
| 7 | João Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | +02’40” |
| 8 | Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) | +02’45” |
| 9 | Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) | +03’39” |
| 10 | Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates) | +04’26” |
