Tom Pidcock celebrates victory on stage 3 of the Tour of the Alps (Image credit: Getty Images)

Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.5) put on an impressive display to win a cagey and tactical finale on stage 3 of the Tour of the Alps , beating Tommaso Dati (Team UKYO) – who beat him on stage 1 – to the line in Arco with a perfectly-timed sprint. Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) was third.

The early breakaway duo of Sam Oomen (Lidl-Trek) and Darren Rafferty (EF Education-EasyPost) looked for long like they would battle it out for the win, but the peloton, led mostly by Pidcock's team throughout the 174km day, managed to bring them back in the final 4km.

From here, there were accelerations from the likes of Ben O'Connor (Jayco AlUla) and Bernal, but they were all marked.…