
American Matteo Jorgenson led Visma-Lease a Bike over the line to win Tuesday's 28.4-kilometer team time trial at the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 2026, while Frenchman Alex Baudin retained the overall leader's yellow jersey.
Baudin, who won Sunday's opening stage, led his EF Education-Easy Post team to a third-place finish, 29 seconds off Visma's time.
That was enough to give him a 12-second lead over Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin and Briton Oscar Onley in the overall standings after they led Netcompany Ineos to a second-place finish on the third stage around Perreux.
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Jorgenson, a two-time winner of Paris-Nice, moved up to fourth overall, 15 seconds behind Baudin.
"It's seven times better than winning on your own because we get the moment right afterwards together, which in cycling, you don't often get where you win together with your teammates," said Jorgenson in reference to the seven-man team. "It's a really cool discipline and a really nice day."
Pre-race favorite Paul Seixas, the teenage French prodigy, lost 45 seconds with his Decathlon CMA CGM team finishing sixth, while overall contenders Juan Ayuso and Isaac Del Toro lost 32 and 61 seconds, respectively.
Spaniard Ayuso and his Danish Lidl-Trek team-mate Mattias Skjelmose moved up to fifth and sixth overall at 47 seconds, with Seixas now 12th at 1 minute and Mexican Del Toro 16th at 1 minute, 16 seconds.
Australian sprinter Michael Matthews had set the early pace for Team Jayco Aula with a time of 33:46 after a blistering finish to the race against the clock.
But Lidl, which finished fourth at 32 seconds, soon smashed that, before Netcompany then set the new benchmark.
Baudin's EF team was inspired by its bid to retain the yellow jersey and kept in touch through the two time checks.
Visma finished the strongest, in part due to Onley's troubles, and Jorgenson now is well-placed to push for overall victory once the race hits the high mountains at the end of the week.
"I think the last 10 kilometers, we couldn't have gone any faster," said Jorgenson, who crashed out of the Ardennes classics in April after a good start to the season, where he was second at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Drome Classic. "I was given a free ride to the last climb. On a personal level, it feels good to win a race, and it is really nice after the spring I've had to come back and be on top again."
Vauquelin and Onley also are well-placed, but there is work to do for Seixas and Del Toro to claw back the time they lost.
Before the final three summit finishes, Wednesday and Thursday's stages invite a battle between the breakaway and the sprint teams.
Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 2026 Stage 3 Results – All Teams
- Team Visma | Lease a Bike – 32:52.17
- Netcompany INEOS – 33:01.78
- EF Education - EasyPost – 33:21.58
- Lidl - Trek – 33:24.58
- Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe – 33:33.00
- Decathlon CMA CGM Team – 33:37.77
- Movistar Team – 33:44.28
- Team Jayco AlUla – 33:46.56
- UAE Team Emirates - XRG – 33:53.66
- Bahrain - Victorious – 33:58.15
- Groupama - FDJ United – 34:28.31
- Soudal Quick-Step – 34:28.73
- XDS Astana Team – 34:31.67
- Alpecin - Premier Tech – 34:37.78
- Uno-X Mobility – 34:38.47
- TotalEnergies – 34:38.93
- Cofidis – 34:39.58
- Tudor Pro Cycling Team – 35:16.19
- NSN Cycling Team – 35:34.01
- Lotto Intermarché – 35:34.83
- Team Picnic PostNL – 35:37.36
- Caja Rural - Seguros RGA – 35:57.77
Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 2026 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 3
- Alex Baudin (EF Education - EasyPost) – 10:01:01
- Kévin Vauquelin (Netcompany INEOS) – 10:01:13
- Oscar Onley (Netcompany INEOS) – 10:01:13
- Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 10:01:16
- Juan Ayuso (Lidl - Trek) – 10:01:48
- Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl - Trek) – 10:01:48
- Jørgen Nordhagen (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 10:01:51
- Maxim Van Gils (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 10:01:57
- Carlos Rodríguez (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 10:01:58
- Bruno Armirail (Netcompany INEOS) – 10:01:58
- Léo Bisiaux (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 10:02:00
- Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 10:02:01
- Luke Plapp (Team Jayco AlUla) – 10:02:01
- Luke Tuckwell (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 10:02:04
- Cian Uijtdebroeks (Movistar Team) – 10:02:08
- Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 10:02:17
- Kevin Vermaerke (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 10:02:21
- Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain - Victorious) – 10:02:22
- Ramses Debruyne (Alpecin - Premier Tech) – 10:02:49
- Guillaume Martin (Groupama - FDJ United) – 10:02:52
- Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step) – 10:02:52
- Clément Berthet (Groupama - FDJ United) – 10:02:54
- Steff Cras (Soudal Quick-Step) – 10:02:54
- Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team) – 10:02:55
- Rudy Molard (Groupama - FDJ United) – 10:03:02
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