Norwegian Kurt-Asle Arvesen scored a second straight home win for Danish squad CSC winning stage three of the Tour of Denmark.

Danes Lasse Bøchmann (Glud & Marstrand Horsens) and Matti Breschel, the stage two victor and overall leader, finished second and third respectively.

Results

1 Kurt Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC (Nor) 4.40.39

2 Lasse Bøchmann (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens (Den) 0.01

3 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC (Den) 0.08

4 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas (Ita)

5 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Designa Køkken (Den)

6 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC (Den)

7 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano (Ned)

8 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Professional Cycling (Ita)

9 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto (Bel)

10 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action (Pol) 0.14

General classification after stage 3

1 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC (Den) 13.26.55

2 Kurt Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC (Nor) 0.02

3 Lasse Bøchmann (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens (Den) 0.07

4 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas (Ita) 0.08

5 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) T-Mobile Professional Cycling (Ita) 0.10

6 Nicki Sørensen (Den) Team CSC (Den) 0.14

7 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano (Ned) 0.18

8 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto (Bel) 0.20

9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Designa Køkken (Den)

10 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Intel-Action (Pol) 0.26

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