Tour of Poland: Matteo Pelucchi wins as Marcel Kittel retains lead

Matteo Pelucchi won for the second day in a row on stage three of the Tour of Poland as Marcel Kittel retained the overall lead.

Pelucchi (IAM Cycling) beat fellow Italian Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek Factory Racing) into second place by less than the length of a wheel, with Tom van Asbroeck (LottoNL-Jumbo) finishing third.

Kittel (Giant-Alpecin) was poorly positioned in the sprint and could only finish seventh.

However, the German remains top of the general classification, six seconds ahead of second-placed Nizzolo and 10 seconds in front of third-placed Caleb Ewan (Orica-GreenEdge).

The seven-day race continues on Wednesday with a 220km rolling fourth stage from Jaworzno to Nowy Sacz.

Stage three result

1 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling, 3:48:41

2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek Factory Racing, same time

3 Tom van Asbroeck (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo, st

4 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida, st

5 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Lampre-Merida, st

6 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step, st

7 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Giant-Alpecin, st

8 Pawel Franczak (Pol) Poland, st

9 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana, st

10 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling, st

General classification

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Giant-Alpecin, 9:51:50

2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek Factory Racing, +6secs

3 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge, +10

4 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing, same time

5 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Lampre-Merida, +12

6 Tom van Asbroeck (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo, st

7 Sebastian Turgot (Fra) Ag2r-La Mondiale, +16

8 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky, st

9 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ.fr, st

10 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Giant-Alpecin, st