Stage 3: A Thrilling Finish by Dave Zabriskie

Stage 3 Results | Video | Press Release Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) scored a dramatic stage win ahead of Levi Leipheimer and Mick Rogers on Tuesday’s third stage of the Amgen Tour of California, the 113.3-mile leg from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.

The three overall favorites broke away together on the critical Bonny Doon climb outside Santa Cruz and team-time-trialed to the line as a hungry pack closed to within a handful of seconds.

Zabriskie, the reigning national time trial champion, attacked the others with less than a kilometer to go and held them off, taking the win and a 10-second bonus that put him into the overall lead, displacing overnight leader Brett Lancaster (Cervelo TestTeam).
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