Day 3 Results & Headlines
Stage 3 – 37.5kms
- Morabity wins third successive stage, leading overall by 1min 22 over second place El Mouaziz. Spain’s Martinez remains in third with a five minute lead over Moroccans El Akad and Akhdar.
- Sedykh takes the third stage and extends her lead to thirty five minutes over Mauclair. Brazil’s Maciel holds third place with defending champion Barnes dropping over forty minutes to third place with Moroccan Raji having an excellent stage displacing American Lisa Howard for fifth place.
- Top Brits are David Hellard holding fifteenth place overall with Alastair King moving up to two places to twentieth. Top Brit female is Selina McCole who is in 9th place on the women’s leader board and 91st overall.
Men’s Race – Stage 3
| 1 | Rachid El Morabity | 03:03:41 |
| 2 | Abdelkader El Mouaziz | 03:04:02 |
| 3 | Aziz El Akad | 03:05:40 |
| 4 | Jose Manuel Martinez | 03:18:55 |
| 5 | Samir Akhdar | 03:25:22 |
Women’s Race – Stage 3
| 1 | Natalia Sedykh | 03:49:15 |
| 2 | Nathalie Mauclair | 03:53:34 |
| 3 | Fernanda Maciel | 03:55:53 |
| 4 | Aziza Raji | 04:16:41 |
| 5 | Elisabet Barnes | 04:37:28 |
Leaderboard
Men’s Race – Cumulative Standings
| 1 | Rachid El Morabity | 09:38:16 |
| 2 | Abdelkader El Mouaziz | 09:39:38 |
| 3 | Jose Manuel Martinez | 10:22:31 |
| 4 | Aziz Akad | 10:27:52 |
| 5 | Samir Akhdar | 10:46:40 |
Clavery 6th, Sa 7th, Amdahl 8th, Schlarb 12th
Women’s Race – Cumulative Standings
| 1 | Natalia Sedykh | 11:40:21 |
| 2 | Nathalie Mauclair | 12:15:48 |
| 3 | Fernanda Maciel | 12:45:31 |
| 4 | Elisabet Barnes | 13:40:12 |
| 5 | Aziza Raji | 13:56:47 |
Arbogast – Unknown – may have dropped
Top Brit’s
| 1 | David Hellard (15th overall) | 12:06:11 |
| 2 | Alastair King (20th overall) | 12:16:27 |
| 3 | Kristian Morgan (23rd overall) | 12:36:40 |
| 4 | Greg Dunning (28th overall) | 13:11:54 |
| 5 | Michael Smith (32nd overall) | 13:35:55 |
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