Luka Mezgec (Giant-Shimano) is simply unstoppable in this year's Volta a Catalunya. Today he crused the opposition to take his third win in the race and he even claims to have had heavy legs.

Luka Mezgec has sprinted to his third stage win of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya today with another comfortable win at the end of a dominant day of racing from Team Giant-Shimano.

Despite a second category climb in the final 20km of the race, the peloton flew into the finish in Valls together and Mezgec once again proved that he is the fastest man in the race.

Earlier in the day, Georg Preidler broke away initially with seven others before moving clear with just Marcus Burghardt (BMC) for company. They built up a healthy lead of over three minutes and this meant that behind the team could concentrate on keeping Mezgec out of trouble rather than having to chase.

After being set up by the team in the final kilometres, Mezgec put the power down on his Propel, putting over a bike length between himself and second place.

After the stage, Mezgec had a wry smile on his face. “During the stage I didn’t think it was going to happen as my legs felt empty – I think it was because of the cold yesterday.

“With Georg up the road we could concentrate on getting over the climb. The guys stuck with me and when I heard that there was a head wind the otherside I got a confidence boost and knew that it would slow.

“I went all out and got over the top with the main group, then the guys started to control the bunch.

“In the final kilometre Warren Barguil set me up, putting me near the front. I knew that I needed to be near but not right at the front into the last corner and that worked out well.

“It’s great that even with a young team out here we can play such a big part in this race.”

“It was a fantastic display from the team here today. Everyone played their part and overall it worked out easier than the previous stage wins.

“We wanted to get a guy in the break so that we didn’t need to chase today. Firstly Chad Haga got in the early move but the pace was too high. Georg managed to break the elastic and ended up with just one other out front.

“Having him out front made the job easy behind. It all come back together in the final 30km and from there we took control. Warren Barguil did a great lead-out and Luka once again finished it off.”

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