Ben Healy on Coppi e Bartali third stage win - " I think all my hours on the turbo have paid of"

Ben Healy's impressive performance in the third stage of Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, which included a strategic attack and a tenacious defence, led to a well-deserved win for him and his team.

“It was a pretty chaotic day and not what we would have expected to be honest. There was a crash pretty early on, and from then on it was my job to mark a lot of the early moves. I had super good legs today,” he said on his team’s website.

He explains his attack in brief, “I had it so I gave it a go and Mark and Domenico came with me. We pushed all the way to the line. I wasn't sure I had the win until the very last moment when I crossed the line. When we got away on the last climb, I knew there was a good chance I could take the win.”

After his teammate Sean Quinn's success yesterday, it was his turn today to secure the first WorldTour victory of his career. "This win feels really good. Things are going well. We took the win yesterday with Quinn, and I think all my hours on the turbo have paid off. We have four riders in the top ten on GC so we'll want to figure out how to go into that TT with the leader's jersey and to keep it," he concluded.