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September 25, 2023
Le Tour de Langkawi 2023 – Stage 3 🇲🇾 – Jeli – Baling : 183,1 km
The Tour of Langkawi is a week-long stage race held in the southeast Asian country of Malaysia.
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September 25, 2023
Le Tour de Langkawi 2023 – Stage 3 🇲🇾 – Jeli – Baling : 183,1 km
The Tour of Langkawi is a week-long stage race held in the southeast Asian country of Malaysia. The race is named after the Langkawi archipelago, a chain of 99 islands where the inaugural edition in 1996 started and finished.
George Jackson (Bolton Equities Black Spoke) blasted to victory on stage 3 of the Tour de Langkawi after a chaotic reduced-group sprint into Baling ahead of Enrico Zanoncello (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizané) and Carlos Canal (Euskatel-Euskadi).
Zanoncello moved into the race lead as the big sprinters in Arvid de Klein (Tudor Pro Cycling) and Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) were dropped earlier in the stage, finishing half an hour down.
Jackson did finish the day on the same overall time as the Italian but remains second due to Zanoncello’s better average finishing position across the first three stages.
The race’s first hilly stage saw a 10-rider break get up the road, but their gap wasn’t significant enough to hold off the peloton led by Bolton Equities Black Spoke and Corratec-Selle Italia and they were reabsorbed inside the final 10km.
“I’m pretty stoked with today’s win. It was a hard race but the boys did a great job of chasing the leaders all day,” said Jackson after his fourth win of the season. “Towards the last 300 metres, Matt (Bostock) led me out, I was then fourth into the last corner, and sprinted as hard as I could to the line.”
Results :
 blasted to victory on stage 3 of the Tour de Langkawi after a chaotic reduced-group sprint into Baling ahead of Enrico Zanoncello (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizané) and Carlos Canal (Euskatel-Euskadi).
Zanoncello moved into the race lead as the big sprinters in Arvid de Klein (Tudor Pro Cycling) and Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) were dropped earlier in the stage, finishing half an hour down.
Jackson did finish the day on the same overall time as the Italian but remains second due to Zanoncello’s better average finishing position across the first three stages.
The race's first hilly stage saw a 10-rider break get up the road, but their gap wasn’t significant enough to hold off the peloton led by Bolton Equities Black Spoke and Corratec-Selle Italia and they were reabsorbed inside the final 10km.
"I’m pretty stoked with today’s win. It was a hard race but the boys did a great job of chasing the leaders all day," said Jackson after his fourth win of the season. "Towards the last 300 metres, Matt (Bostock) led me out, I was then fourth into the last corner, and sprinted as hard as I could to the line."
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