Nicolas Roche in full flight up The Tumble cat 1 ascent; the clip below captures all the action from the closing stages today.
Highlights final kilometres, Tour of Britain stage 3
Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) passed Roche on the final section of the climb to take 2nd place on the stage, with the Irish rider 3rd just over his shoulder.
Zardini went very early on the final climb but paced himself better than Roche, who caught and dropped the Italian only for him to get back on terms and then drop the Irish man.
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The select group that pulled clear of the splintered bunch on the climb, some of whom got up to Roche by the finish line, including general classification favourite Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky.
Stage 3: Newtown - The Tumble (180km)
1 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4:35:02
2 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-QuickStep 0:00:09
3 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:11
4 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
5 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:14
6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team
7 David Lopez Garcia (Esp) Team Sky
8 Sébastien Reichenbach (Sui) IAM Cycling 0:00:16
9 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Movistar Team
10 Leopold König (Cze) Team NetApp-Endura
11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 0:00:32
12 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Garmin-Sharp 0:00:35
13 Steve Lampier (GBr) Giordana Racing Team 0:00:45
14 Karel Hnik (Cze) MTN-Qhubeka
15 Jack Bauer (NZl) Garmin-Sharp 0:00:47
46 Ryan Mullen (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction 0:03:40
86 Jack Wilson (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction 0:08:02
115 Sam Bennett (Irl) Team NetApp-Endura 0:11:19
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General Classification
1 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 11:30:21
2 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-QuickStep 0:00:13
3 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:17
4 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:21
5 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:24
6 David Lopez Garcia (Esp) Team Sky
7 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Movistar Team 0:00:26
8 Leopold König (Cze) Team NetApp-Endura
9 Sébastien Reichenbach (Sui) IAM Cycling
10 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:00:37
11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 0:00:42
12 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Garmin-Sharp 0:00:45
13 Steve Lampier (GBr) Giordana Racing Team 0:00:55
14 Jan Barta (Cze) Team NetApp-Endura 0:00:57
15 Jack Bauer (NZl) Garmin-Sharp
50 Ryan Mullen (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction 0:04:34
97 Sam Bennett (Irl) Team NetApp-Endura 0:11:45
112 Jack Wilson (Irl) An Post-Chainreaction 0:20:07
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