Women’s Tour Down Under stage three results: Ruth Winder wins, takes lead

Trek-Segafredo’s Ruth Winder won stage three of the Women’s Tour Down Under and took the overall lead in Stirling, Australia, today.

The American beat Liane Lippert (Team Sunweb) and Lauren Stephens (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) into second and third respectively.

“I learned from last year to not start the lead-out too soon,” said Winder, who finished second in the stage in 2019.

“We started our lead-out too early last year, and Mitchelton-Scott came up our outside. This year Tayler [Wiles] listened to me the whole time in the leadout, and she did it perfectly.

“You want to be the first wheel and really gun it, but you really need to hold back, hold back until you feel the rush, and Tayler did a beautiful job today.

“When I saw the finish line, I went as hard as I could and managed to hold everyone off.”

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Stage three

1	Ruth Winder	USA	Trek-Segafredo	2:51:16
2	Liane Lippert	GER	Team Sunweb
3	Lauren Stephens	USA	Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank
4	Peta Mullens	AUS	Roxsolt Attaquer
5	Chloe Hosking	AUS	Rally Cycling
6	Anastasiia Chursina	SLO	Ale BTC Ljubljana
7	Ella Harris	NZL	Canyon-Sram
8	Shara Gillow	AUS	FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope
9	Rachel Neylan	AUS	Team UniSA-Australia
10	Amanda Spratt	AUS	Mitchelton-Scott

General classification

1	Ruth Winder	USA	Trek-Segafredo	9:12:26
2	Liane Lippert	GER	Team Sunweb	+0:00:07
3	Amanda Spratt	AUS	Mitchelton-Scott
4	Chloe Hosking	AUS	Rally Cycling	+0:00:30
5	Leah Kirchmann	CAN	Team Sunweb	+0:00:33
6	Peta Mullens	AUS	Roxsolt Attaquer	+0:00:34
7	Lauren Stephens	USA	Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank
8	Juliette Labous	FRA	Team Sunweb	+0:00:36
9	Shara Gillow	AUS	FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope	+0:00:37
10	Ella Harris	NZL	Canyon-Sram