Paul Lapeira launched out of the field mid-way up the punchy climb to the finish line to secure the stage 3 victory at the Tour du Limousin-Périgord-Nouvelle Aquitaine. The peloton caught the remnants of the day-long breakaway with one kilometre to go as the roads pitched upwards to the finish in Masseret. Lapeira attacked first and held off runner-up and overall leader Ewen Costiou and third-placed Alexandre Delettre. Costiou leads the overall classification into the final stage on Friday. A nine-rider breakaway, including Victor Lafay and Jonathan Lastra, extended to more than three minutes before being reduced and caught in the closing kilometres.
Paul Lapeira (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) launched out of the field mid-way up the punchy climb to the finish line to secure the stage 3 victory at the Tour du Limousin-Périgord-Nouvelle Aquitaine. The peloton had caught the remnants of the day-long breakaway with one kilometre to go, just as the roads pitched upwards to the finish line in Masseret. Lapeira attacked first and was strong enough to hold off runner-up and overall leader Ewen Costiou (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) and third-placed Alexandre Delettre (Team TotalEnergies).
The third stage of the Tour du Limousin-Périgord-Nouvelle Aquitaine was a 182.7km race from Saint-Jal to Masseret with four categorised climbs mid-race. A breakaway of nine set off that included Victor Lafay (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Jonathan Lastra (Cofidis), Rémy Rochas (Groupama-FDJ), César Pérez (Equipo Finisher-Kern Pharma), Thomas Gachignard (Team TotalEnergies), Quentin Bezza and Henri-François Renard-Haquin (both Wagner Bazin WB), and Kévin Avoine and mountains classification leader Kenny Molly (both Van Rysel Roubaix).
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