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2022 Tour de France: Stage 3 Preview

  • Ron 

Stage 3 of the 2022 Tour de France is the last in Denmark for this year’s race before a travel day on Monday to move the racers, staff and race management to France. The stage is another flat one, traversing 182km from Vejle to to Sonderberg.

Vejle is the birthplace of cycling star Tony Rominger. Though he raced for Switzerland, he was born here to a Danish mother.

Vejle offers some of Denmark’s most beautiful nature and a unique cycling terrain with Denmark’s toughest hill climbs, super routes and hill signs at the most popular hill climbs, and is nicknamed the Kingdom of Cycling.

Since 2004, Vejle has laid asphalt for the drama on the Queens Stage in PostNord Danmark Rundt – Denmark’s largest bicycle race. The legendary 19% increase on Kiddesvej always plays a decisive role for both the stage and who wins the race. The area also attracts recreational riders to one of Denmark’s largest recreational road cycling races, Grejsdalsløbet.

The stage finishes in Sonderberg, hosting the Tour de France for the first time.

Like the other Danish towns in the Tour de France, Sønderborg has regularly featured on The Tour of Denmark (PostNord Danmark Rundt), most recently in 2021, when former world champion Mads Pedersen won the sprint ahead of Giaccomo Nizzolo and Dylan Groenewegen.

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