Refresh
Hole for the eight forward is at present hovering round 1:05 seconds.
And this is a shot of Arens on the assault early on, earlier than she was joined by the seven different breakaways.
Hole coming down
The hole is shrinking to simply 45 seconds
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UAE and Canyon SRAM are main the bunch.
Present hole at 94 kilometres to go for the eight leaders is 1:00
Le Court docket-Pienaar is the most effective positioned on GC, at 1:13 on race chief Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Crew ADQ) so seemingly they will not let it go far too up the street.
This is the eight riders within the break:Kim Le Court docket-Pienaar (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal)
Alice Towers (EF Training-Oatly)
Juliette Berthet (FDJ United-SUEZ)
Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek)
Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco)
Megan Arens (Picnic PostNL)
Femke Markus (SDWorx-Protime)
Katharina Sadnik (Visma-Lease a Bike)
On immediately’s menu
Km 50.8: Climb: Kobelwald (Cat.3, 1km, 10%)
Km 79.1: Bonus Dash: Rüthi
Km 82.5: Dash: Cugnaso
Km 103.8: Dash Sevelen (Tissot)
Km 104.8: Dash Sevelen (Tissot)
Km 120.8 End: Unhealthy Ragaz
Arens joined by the seven chasesrs, in order that’s eight riders within the lead.
Meantime this is a shot of the race classification leaders from immediately’s begin.

Seven riders closing down on the one race chief, Arens, simply 20 seconds again. The primary peloton is at 55 seconds.
Excellent news. All riders concerned within the crash have restarted, in keeping with race radio.
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Some riders dropped after the crash and 7 riders counter-attacking.
Crash within the bunch. A minimum of 5 riders down.
Hole has dropped to 25 seconds and there is a small group of counter-attackers, six riders going clear.
108 km to go
Counter-attack by a lone rider, however the peloton wasn’t too blissful about that. 45 seconds the hole for Arens.
Hole is as much as 45 seconds. Attending to the now-or-never level for anyone who desires to bridge throughout to Arens for what might be the break of the day.
One confirmed DNS for now by the way in which: Urška Žigart (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal). Žigart accomplished the stage, however a horrible crash late on left her with a fractured jaw.
We’re off the descent of the Sankt Luzisteig and the peloton is slowing notably in keeping with race radio. Hole nonetheless at 30 seconds for Arens.
Arens is 6:05 down on GC so she is actually not an total menace, nevertheless it stays to be seen if extra riders get throughout on the flatter half that follows. In any other case, this might be a really lengthy solo transfer.
She’s on the descent of the Sankt Luzisteig, after which we’ve got a largely flat stage. Bunch very strung out proper now.
Arens hole is now as much as 30 seconds.
One early attacker, Megan Arens (Picnic Submit NL), with a 20-second hole. Some riders dropped on the steep slopes of the Sankt Luzisteig
Meantime this is the general standings after yesterday’s stage, courtesy of FirstCycling

Bunch nonetheless collectively within the opening few hundred metres, however given there’s an unclassified climb about to start out, which will properly change quickly.
Racing underway
And stage 3 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse Ladies, Unhealthy Ragaz-Unhealthy Ragaz, 120.8 km lengthy and with 1094 metres of elevation acquire, is formally underway.
Whereas we’re ready for the beginning, this is our report on yesterday’s dramatic stage, which noticed a second chief rising in as many days and loads of late assaults.
Tour de Suisse Ladies: Elisa Longo Borghini wins hilly stage 2 and takes GC lead with assault on closing climb in Locarno

Simply over three kilometres of neutralised to experience earlier than racing correct will get underway.
And the riders are actually underway on the neutralised part.
A reminder of our race classification leaders:
GC: Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Crew ADQ)
Factors: Femke de Vries (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Mountains: Femke de Vries (Visma-Lease a Bike)
BYR: Sarah Van Dam (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Groups: EF Training-Oatly
They will have an amazing likelihood to get away as quickly because the flag drops at 0918 CET, too, given there is a quick however very steep opening climb, the Sankt Luzisteig (2km, 101%) proper at the start. Curiously sufficient, it is not labeled for the mountains classification, nevertheless it’ll nonetheless damage the legs and perhaps act as a springboard for an early transfer.
The most probably possibility on the playing cards for immediately’s 120.8 kilometre stage is the one bunch dash of the 2026 version. However after two GC days and with a time trial and a whopping mountain stage this weekend, the breakaways will seemingly be equally eager to influence.
The unofficial begin is at 0910 CET with racing for actual getting underway at 0918.
Howdy and welcome to reside protection of stage 3 of the Tour de Suisse Ladies.






















