Sam Bennett came flying home to take a second successive stage victory in the Vuelta a Espana.
The Carrick-on-Suir rider came on top in a bunched finish after the 193.5km loop around Breda in the Netherlands.
As in Utrecht, Bennett just got the better of second-placed Mads Pedersen of Trek-Segafredo, while this time Britain's Daniel McLay was third for Arkea Samsic.
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It is a terrific return to form for Bora-Hansgrohe rider Bennett who has suffered with injury woes over the last 18 months.
“For it to happen two days in a row, it’s quite nice,” Bennett said. “This is confidence-boosting, for sure.”
The 31-year-old praised his BORA team-mates Danny van Poppell, Jonas Koch and fellow Irishman Ryan Mullen for their part in the Third Stage win.
“It was quite hard because I think a lot of people were fighting for our wheel. I think it’s just the natural flow that people start to go up beside me and squeeze me off, so I had a few tough moments just to hold Danny’s wheel.
“It was quite a hard fight. The boys again, what can I say? Jonas riding all day, big thank you for the commitment; the boys then looking after me in the bunch all day, giving me bottles when it was hard.
“Today wasn’t hard watts-wise but there was a lot of accelerations out of corners all day, a really nervous day.
“But again, the job they did in the final — Jonas, even though he was riding all day, came back and did another big turn; Ryan kept us up there taking so much wind; and then Danny, it was a masterclass.”
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