Great win for Matej Mohoric at stage 3 at Tour of Germany

Another victory in the career of young Slovenian Matej Mohoric who took the stage in a tremendous sprint today

Matej stood on the podium 4 times today - for stage win, for GC leader and red jersey with 6 sec. advantage, for white jersey, as the best young rider, and green jersey for the best sprinter in the Tour of Germany - one stage before the big finish of the race.

After the win, Matej told us: "Today the plan was to try to attack and win the stage and maybe the jersey. I was more patient today than yesterday. In the first couple of climbs team-mates covered the attacks for me and I went only for the last climb. Heino brought me in a perfect position for the last climb. Unfortunately, due to the head wind I didn't manage to make a difference. I decided to wait and focus on final sprint. I managed to get a good position before the sprint and, at the end, it all went perfect and I managed to win a stage which is great."

"Tomorrow is a very long and hard stage. We will have to fight to keep the red jersey to defend the leading GC. I think we have a strong team, as we showed today. We helped Quick-Step Floors to control the race, so I was even more motivated for my team Bahrain Merida to get them the stage team and, possibly, also the leading GC. Maybe we can also win this race."

VIDEO: 2018 Deutschland Tour Stage 3 Final Kilometre

2018 Deutschland Tour Stage 3 Top 10

1 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 4:12:28 
2 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin   
3 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert   
4 Jasha SŸtterlin (Ger) Movistar Team   
5 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij   
6 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky   
7 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors   
8 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Groupe Gobert   
9 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data   
10 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) BMC Racing Team

2018 Deutschland Tour GC after Stage 3

1 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 12:37:56 
2 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:06 
3 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:10 
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb   
5 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 0:00:20 
6 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:00:24 
7 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:25 
8 Warren Barguil (Fra) Fortuneo-Samsic   
9 Frederik Backaert (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 0:00:26 
10 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij