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Norway’s Sigrid Haugset seizes Women’s Tour de France yellow jersey with long solo breakaway
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POLIGNY, France (AP) — Sigrid Haugset set off on a long solo run and kept going to the finish to win the third stage of the Women’s Tour de France and claim the yellow jersey on Monday.
The Norwegian rider made her break with more than half of the tough 156.5-kilometer (97.2-mile) route between Geneva and Poligny to go.
She ultimately finished more than 20 minutes adrift of Haugset and dropped to 67th in the general classification.
Haugset leads the general classification by 2 minutes, 2 seconds from Kimberley Le Court of Mauritius, with 2023 Tour champion Demi Vollering third, a further 4 seconds behind.
This edition of the race, the fifth of the Women’s Tour, covers 1,175 kilometers (730 miles) over nine days.