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Tanel Kangert climbs to victory on Stage 3 of the Abu Dhabi Tour

Astana's Tanel Kangert won the third stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour and took over the race lead coming into the final stage

Kangert and Team Sky's Nicolas Roche led the race on the final climb of Jebel Hafeet and although the gap with the chase group including Vincenzo Nibali and Alberto Contador remained less than a minute, the two managed to stay ahead with Kangert able to launch a final attack and drop Roche.

The Estonian did well to take the victory with a 17-second advantage over Roche. The nearest chasers trailed by 33 seconds and both Contador and Nibali crossed the line at 50 seconds from the stage winner.

As such, Kangert takes the overall lead, 21 seconds ahead of Roche and 43 seconds ahead of Lampre-Merida's Diego Ulissi. Nibali and Contador are fourth and fifth respectively.

The final stage is entirely on Yas Island. There are 26 laps on the F1 Yas Marina circuit, each of 5.5km with three Intermediate Sprints as we count down to the finale. The first Intermediate Sprint is at lap 11, with 15 laps to go; the second at 10 laps to go and the last Intermediate Sprints with just five laps to go.Last year during the Yas Island Stage, for the first time ever in a men's professional road race, live on-board bike camera footage was made available and used for live television race coverage. Last km - On the perfect tarmac of a 5.5km Formula 1 circuit with wide roads and large, sweeping bends. The final 250 metres are on straight, flat asphalt.

You can follow the race on our 2016 Abu Dhabi Tour LIVE STREAMING page.

Abu Dhabi Stage 3 Top 10 Results

1 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 3:31:31 
2 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 0:00:17 
3 Mekseb Debesay (Eri) Dimension Data 0:00:33 
4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida   
5 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 0:00:50 
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team   
7 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:52 
8 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:19 
9 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Giant Alpecin 0:01:28 
10 Jesper Hansen (Den) Tinkoff Team  

Abu Dhabi General Classification after Stage 3

1 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 9:19:44 
2 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 0:00:21 
3 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida 0:00:43 
4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:01:00 
5 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team   
6 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:02 
7 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:29 
8 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Giant Alpecin 0:01:38 
9 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar   
10 Jesper Hansen (Den) Tinkoff Team   #

VIDEO: Abu Dhabi Stage 3 Highlights

 

Tanel Kangert climbs to victory on Stage 3 of the Abu Dhabi Tour