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As it happened: Wout van Aert outsprints Kaden Groves on Vuelta a España stage 3

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Van Aert claims his first win since February as he gets revenge over Kaden Groves on La Vuelta's final da🥂y in Portugal

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Hola and welcome to Cyclingnews' li🐈ve coverage of the third stage of the 2024 Vuelta a España🀅!

Stage three is 191.5km in length, with two♕ categorised climbs along the way as th𓆏e peloton heads from Lousã to Castelo Branco. 

The Vuelta got underway🍌 🦂on Saturday with a short and blustery time trial in Lisbon. Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) was the winner, earning the honour of wearing the leader's red jersey. 

Catch up with yesterday's stage here:

The teams are going through the sign-o꧅n process here in Lous&♎atilde;. Just 15 minutes before the flag is dropped.

It seems as though there are no non-starters this morning. Only Dylan van Baarle (Visma Lease-a𒁃-Bike) has been forced to leave the race early so far. 

A brief update on♒ the classification leaders ahead of sta൩ge three:

Max Poole (Team DSM-Fღirmenich PostNL) is just receiving some attention at the team car, so we might be waiting a few minutes for the flag drop.

The flag is d✨ropped and we're underway for stage three!

Wout van Aert has gone for the full get-up today, red jersey and ꦇbibshorts.

It's not taken long for the first attacks and we've ✱got a sense of déjà vu. 

The Spanish duo have stretched out their advantage to just und𝓀er a minute.

There's quite a ಞfew uncategorised climbs coming up.&nbsꦓp;

Equipo Ker💎n Pharma and Euskaltel-Euskadi are proving their worth as wildcard picks for this year's Vuelta, making up the entirety of 💯both breakaways so far.

In fact, we're now hearing that Unai Iribar (Equipo Kern Pharma) and Xabier Isasa (Euskaltel-Euskadi) are🎀 also in the break. 

That quartet now has two minutes over the bunch.

There's a maximum of seven KoM points available today. Luis Ángel Maté🔜; clearly has his eye on that jersey.

Clearly some teams aren't happy with the make-up of this bre🍷akaway. 

Movistar's special edition💯 kit for La Vuelta 2024 is ice-cold!

The gap has been cut eꦏver so slightly, perhaps as a result of those counter-attacks. 

We're back out to a 2:40 gap after that bit of excit꧟ement in the bunch.

If these early kilometres feel like they're passing slower than you'd like, why not have a browse through Cyclingnews' tech gallery from La Vuelta's opening stage TT?

Were the escapees somehow able to make thei💃r advantage stick today, Xabier Isasa (Euskaltel-Euskadi) is the b൲est placed in the overall standings at 1:24 back.

150KM to go

Here's our four leaders earlier on.

Outside of the Vuelta a España bubble, a big transfer deal was confirmed this๊ morning.

Enric Mas (Mov♔istar) has suffered a mechanical is♏sue in the bunch.

White jersey leader Mathias Vacek൩ (Lidl-Trek) leads the classification by six seconds over Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) but he nearly l𝄹ost the jersey on stage 2 after a fan-caused crash forced him into a late chase. He didn't mince his words at the finish line.

Just over 13km until we start our first categorised climb of the da♚y, the Alto de Teixeira.

We mentioned earlier about our tech gallery from the opening day TT, well here's another g🦩eeky marginal gain we spotted in the pits on Saturday.

We're at the foot of the Alto de Teixeira now. It's 17km-long but the final 3꧒km are the steepest, at an average of 5.4%. 

There's quite a contrast in experie𒅌nce in the lead group. 

Visma Lease-a-Bike and Alpe๊cin𝓀-Deceuninck are the two squads pulling in the bunch.

Still 13🔯.5km remaining🧜 on the climb, with the gap at 4:25.

So there's just 10km ꧋left on this categor🔯y two climb.

Robert Gesink, in his final professional race before hanging up his bike, is putting in a solid shift on the front for his Visma ꧙Lease-a-Bike team.

While the race continues to make its way over the Alto de Teixeira, here are 𒐪some key figures from ꦬthis year's race.

The break🐷 is tackling the steepest se🙈ction of the climb now.

Where's Wout?

The⭕re's some activity in the break as the summit comes in🌞to range. 

Maté wants the points and Isasa is trying to tee up 𝕴his teammate for an attack.

Equipo Kern Pharma are keen to take the summit too though, it could well mean the polka dot jersey for whoever crosses it ܫfirst.

KOM (ALTO DE Teixeira)

That was some smart play by Euskaltel-Euskadi. A🥂ll being well, they've guaranteed themselves a jersey on stage four.

100KM TO GO

Just a quick correction on the KOM points. Euskaltel actually managed a 1-2, meaning Maté sits top of the standings on seven🔯 points, with Isasa now second with three points.

After yesterday'ꦏs nail-biting finale at the Tour de France Femmes, it made us think about the smallest margin of victory at La Vuelta.

Alpecin have really pushed on in the bunch, cutting t🀅he gap to j🧸ust two minutes. 

With today's stage taking🍬 place further inland, we're seeing the temperature become much more of a factor.

The current ൲temperature on the ground 𓆉is 33 degrees Celsius, and still rising...

With 80km to go, we're ജinto the Castelo Branco distrဣict of Portugal.

The peloton are heading💖 through the feed zone so the gap has stretched b🔯ack out to three minutes.

Laurens Huys (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) is receiving some treatment fro💫m the medical car.

Less than 25km until the intermediate sprint now.

We have a hunch that this might be💦 an experienced time trial specialist...

Luis Ángel Maté is proving that age is merely a 𓆉number. The Spaniard is the oldest rider at La Vuelta by two years and 57 days.

Robert Gesink is still at the front of the bunch.

La Vuelta loves a good water cannon!

5km until our intermediate sprint in Fund&atild𝔉e;o.

The break will almost certainly scoop up four of the fivౠe sprint placings, but there's still 10 points up for grabs for t💝he fifth rider over the line.

Oscar Riesebeek🍸 (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is the other rider doing plenty of work at the head of the peloton.

The first three riders from the break to reach the intermediate sprint will also take sꦅix, four an💧d two bonus seconds respectively.

Intermediate sprint (Fundão)

50km to go

All those sp🐎rinting exploits has drastically cut the gap down to a mere 1:15.

There's now just 5.5km to the su♔mmit of the fourth category Alto de Alpedrinha climb (6.3 km at 3.3%).

The intermediate sprint results in full:

Meanw🤡hile, there's some interesting news coming out of the world of track cycling this afternoon regarding Matthew Richardson.

Just 1000m to the su♚mmit now. Only two points on offer at the top.

KOM (Alto de Alpedrinha)

That duo have now꧅ split from their respective teammates on the descent, pushing on ahead with a gap of arounꦡd seven seconds.

The TV cameras have got themselves in a mix up on the descent. Xabier Isasa is now out in front on his🐼 own, with the trio chasing on behind him.

Isasa looks keen to get the🌠 combativity award today. He has a 10 second lead♋ on the rest of the break, with the peloton a further minute behind.

If Isasa manages to win the prize for ღthe day's most combative rider he'll earn himself a tidyꦡ €3,000 payday.

Another experienced riꩲder is heading to Astana from next season.

With 30km to 🧔go, Ruiz and Maté have sat u🙈p. 

Isasa has a lead of 50๊ seconds over the main pack but its dwindling as every kilometre ticks by.

Expect to see the sprint teams battling for the⭕ r⛦acing line during the final 10km. 

Isasa꧒ holds a 32 seওcond lead over the peloton with 25km remaining.

We've got our eye on plenty of sprinters here in Portugal, but the🧜re's another fast finisher in the new🌱s today too.

The peloton h✤ave Isasa in their sights. He'll surely have the combativity award wrapped up for today after h🧜is showing in the last 20km.

And we're all back together with 19km left on🐲 today's🌌 stage.

Now the sprint teams are coming to the fore, DSM-Firmenich PostNL have taken over the right side ofꩵܫ the road.

EF Education-EasyPost are up near the front of the peloto🅰n as they pro🌊tect their leader Richard Carapaz.

UAE Team Emirates are up thౠere too, for a similar reason.

Just 12.5km remaining.

Israel-Premier Tech will be keen to bring Corbin Strong to the front of the race in the ꦺnext few kilometres. He'll be guided by Riley Sheehan.

The peloton is riding along🐓 a fairly wide highway currently, it's making for a bit of a washing machine in the bunch.

The first few roundabouts and segments of road furn🎐iture successfully overcome. They've stretched the bunch out, though.

This run-in w❀ill really test the sprinters. Some 🐼sections of the final 1.5km ramp up to 4%.

Plenty of GC prospects looking to reach the 3km marker unscathed. Primož Roglič is up there looking for clean roads too.

It's been a relentless fina𒐪l 25km. The bunch have averaged 53.8km/h.

Visma Lease-a-Bike and Alpec🌠in-Deceuninck are back at the front, leading us into the final 2💜km.

A ⛎late flyer from Vℱictor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny), no one can reel him in just yet!

Campenaerts still has a lead under the🎉 1km banner.

But t✅he Belgian is eventually reeled in. Intermarché are lea♓ding the way.

Groves versus van Aert.

And its the Belgian, Wout van Aert (Visma🍸 Lease-a-Bike) who claims revenge for yesterday's disappointment and wins stage three of the Vuelta a España.

Al🌃pecin-Deceuninck's Kaden Groves takes second, with Euskaltel-Euskadi's Jon Aberasturi rounding out the podium in Castelo Branco.

A first win since February for Wout van Aert. He'll have💯 certainly pleased his sponsors with thisౠ celebration.

Here's what Wout ⭕van Aert had to say about his 10th Grand Tour staꦑge victory.

More quotes from today's stage winner.

The Visma Lease-a-Bike rider isn't confident of holding onto the red jersey beyond tomorrow's stage🔜, but he now leads the GC standings by 13 seconds 👍ahead of Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates).

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