{"id":217198,"date":"2025-10-16T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217198\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:20:07","slug":"no-stopping-paul-magnier-at-tour-of-guangxi-as-he-makes-it-three-wins-in-a-row-on-stage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217198\/","title":{"rendered":"No stopping Paul Magnier at Tour of Guangxi as he makes it three wins in a row on stage 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"d289dbd3-feab-436b-a2e6-562ecdab4a50\">Paul Magnier (Soudal-Quickstep) continued to rule the sprint on stage 3 of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/gree-tour-of-guangxi\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/gree-tour-of-guangxi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gree-Tour of Guangxi<\/a>, crossing the line in Bama with a celebration of his third victory in a row.<\/p>\n<p>It was another perfectly played out sprint for the unchallenged race leader. Magnier crossed the line ahead of Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe) and Max Kanter (XDS Astana) on the 213.5km stage 3, the longest of the race.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"d289dbd3-feab-436b-a2e6-562ecdab4a50-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Thursday&#8217;s hilly stage from Jingxi to Bama included 2,330m of elevation gain, with three categorised climbs peaking in the final 60km of the race, a category 2 topping out at 59km to go a category 3 with 41km remaining and finally another category 3 ascent at 20km to go before the downhill run toward the line.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">There was no spoiling the sprint, however, with the attacks reeled in and while stage 2&#8217;s runner-up Pavel Bittner (Picnic PostNL) launched the sprint, Magnier once again finished it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-bf444366-4c70-4ea3-826b-a3e2c4026d82\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Magnier (Soudal-Quickstep) continued to rule the sprint on stage 3 of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi, crossing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-217198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}