Giro d’Abruzzo: the third stage belongs to Alexey Lutsenko

Giro d'Abruzzo: the third stage è by Alexey Lutsenko

Alexey Lutsenko, bearer of the Astana Qazaqstan team, won the third stage of the Giro d'Abruzzo Crédit Agricole, which stretched 163 kilometers from Pratola Peligna to Pietracamela (Prati di Tivo). Diego Ulissi and Adam Yates, both of UAE Team Emirates, took second and third respectively.

With this victory, the Ukrainian rider becomes the new blue jersey. "It's a very good result for me and my team,” he stressed to the official RCS Sport channels, “We showed that there isn't only UAE Team Emirates and that we can play with them. The last climb was very hard and Adam Yates attacked moreù times".

" It was complicated from a tactical point of view because Sivakov also tried and in the final è Ulissi also came back. After the problems I had at the beginning of the season, è it feels good to come back and win showing that I am in good shape at an important stage of the season" concluded Lutsenko.