Massive Attack: Frenchman Remi Cavagna solos to stage 3 win at the Tour of California

Cavagna struck out from the two-man breakaway before riding solo for 45 miles to the finish over brutal Mount Hamilton as Tejay van Garderen defends leader's jersey

Remi Cavagna and Alex Hoehn (USA National Team) went away and established a breakaway lead of over 10 minutes.

The peloton led by EF not really interested in chasing.

Remi Cavagna struck out leaving Alex Hoehn struggled on his own.

Simon Geschke (CCC Team) and Ben King were second and third respectively after attackimg out of the peloton, overhauling a totally spent Alex Hoehn who was in pieces at the end of the stage.

Remi Cavagna was at the very limit at the end of the stage but pressed on to take his second win.

Tejay van Garderen safely finished in the bunch behind to stay in the Golden leaders jersey.

VIDEO: 2019 Tour of California Stage 3 Highlights

2019 Tour of California Stage 3 Top 10

1 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 5:44:22 
2 Ben King (USA) Team Dimension Data 0:07:11 
3 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team   
4 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:07:47 
5 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates   
6 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe   
7 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin   
8 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana Pro Team   
9 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep   
10 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates

2019 Tour of California GC after Stage 3

1 Tejay van Garderen (USA) EF Education First 15:23:28 
2 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos 0:00:06 
3 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:07 
4 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:16 
5 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:22 
6 Rob Britton (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 0:00:33 
7 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team   
8 David de la Cruz (Spa) Team Ineos 0:00:34 
9 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:35 
10 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:36