{"id":48267,"date":"2025-08-06T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:42:08","slug":"ben-turner-takes-first-worldtour-win-on-stage-3-of-2025-tour-de-pologne-time-gaps-neutralised-after-crash-involving-lapeira-majka-vacek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48267\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Turner takes first WorldTour win on stage 3 of 2025 Tour de Pologne; Time-gaps neutralised after crash involving Lapeira, Majka & Vacek"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a somewhat strange finale to stage 3 of the 2025 Tour de Pologne<\/a>, Ben Turner<\/a> has taken victory. The reason for the strange feeling? The fact that the last 15km had been raced without any GC ramifications following a neutralisation of the race for around 10 minutes after a nasty crash involving Yellow Jersey Paul Lapeira and Polish national champion Rafal Majka<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n

After 10 riders had initially gone clear to form the breakaway, by the time the leaders entered the final 55km, just 7 remained out ahead. Among the notable names on the attack were the likes of Timo Kielich (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Remi Cavagne (Groupama – FDJ) and Pepijn Reinderink (Soudal – Quick-Step).<\/p>\n

As the rolling parcours and the intense pace of the racing continued to take effect, by the time the Rzeczka summited inside 45km to go, just 3 riders remained in a breakaway, with Kielich, Reinderink and Kelland O’Brien still around 1:50 clear of the peloton. With Kielich dropping away soon after, it was only O’Brien and Reinderink that entered the last 35km ahead of the bunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n


\nWith 25km to go and the peloton closing in, O’Brien then attempted to go solo at the front. At the front of the peloton meanwhile, a nasty crash on one of the descents<\/a> saw the likes of GC leader Paul Lapeira, Czech national champion Mathias Vacek, and Polish national champion Rafal Majka crash into a ditch at the roadside.<\/p>\n

Despite Diego Ulissi and Lorenzo Milesi attacking to join O’Brien up ahead, following the crash, the race was neutralised momentarily by the race jury. After some confusion and a wait of around 10 minutes, the stage did eventually restart for the final 15km, although with any potential GC time gaps neutralised.<\/p>\n

The trio of O’Brien, Ulissi and Milesi were given a 40 second advantage over the peloton at the restart. Notably absent from the bunch though, was the Yellow Jersey of Lapeira.<\/p>\n

At the front, there was still a stage win up for grabs despite the GC neutralisation. Into the final 2km at the three leaders till held an advantage of around 10-12 seconds. Just as they passed through the flamme rouge however, the break were tagged by a counter-attacking move from the front of the bunch.<\/p>\n

As things regrouped then ahead of the finish, the INEOS Grenadiers<\/a> took control of the leadout and when Ben Turner took off, no one could catch the Brit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a somewhat strange finale to stage 3 of the 2025 Tour de Pologne, Ben Turner has taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-48267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48267","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=48267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}