__[Adam Bialek (26)](https://dotwatcher.cc/profile/Adam%20Bialek)__, so impressive, so imperial, wins 3 Peaks Bike Race in 5 days 20 hours and 3 minutes ! !
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In parcours 3, __Helge Nesse (111)__ is the first rider to do it from west to east.

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After night 6 WE HAVE A WINNER

top 12 at Parcours 2

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After night 5 

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Top 3 at Peak 2 PAS DE PEYROL

With the game of parcours 1 which could be taken in one direction or the other, it was difficult to know precisely if the North or South option was the most advantageous. The arrival of the first riders at Peak 2 provides the first reliable intermediate classification of the race since the end of start parcours.
__Adam Bialek (2)__ is the only one who has already passed Pas de Peyrol. __Bernhard Ritter (6)__, who said he had made a tourist detour via the Lautaret, is in second place (one would be tempted to say "his" 2nd place, since he had won it in 2021 and 2022 already). But he is closely followed (60 minutes apart?) by __Rémi Méjean (139)__, the champion of the ultra-northern route (as he passed through Besançon).
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__Fanny Bensussan (21)__, first woman, is now precisely at the south of the (french) Vienna. She might be in the top 10 at peak 2 ! 

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Among the first 15 riders, __Björn Lehnard (26)__, veteran of TCR and so many races, is distinguished by its choice of routing. He is the only one to visit the Beaujolais and Maconnais vineyards. And a few days ago, he was the first to circumvent the Arlbergpass not by the SilvrettaStra but by Hahntennjoch pass. He has just been imitated by Urs Arnold Kustchera (82) who is customizing this route by riding further west.

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After night 4 : FIRST RANKING IN MASSIF CENTRAL

The match between __Adam Bialek__ and __Rémi Méjean__ is perhaps more undecided than it seems: the Frenchman is currently in Besançon at +/- 360 kilometers from the start of course 2 in the central massif, while the German has just passed  the Lac du Bourget with less than 270 kilometers till Blesle in Auvergne. A gap of 90 kilometers in his favor, but the great favorite of the race will have 2000 meters of additional elevation to cross the Forez massif (which should not pose a problem for him).![3pics](//images.ctfassets.net/6hyijb95boju/3MQs0Yr9ht4yOs6VK14NwF/1060e5456534659d0222a60d5e8e0c8f/3pics.jpg)

__Adrien Liechti__, as a dotwatcher, testifies to an apocalyptic meteorology last night where Rémi Méjean passed this morning.

Behind the two front men, there are variations in the northern and southern routes that have been opened: in the north, __Marcel Knaus, Georg Walther and Jimmy Ashby__ are crossing Switzerland since Liechtenstein by a further souther way and they are going toward the canton of Neuchatel; in Italy, __Bernhard Ritter__ preferred the Montgenèvre/Lautaret sequence rather than taking the Mont-Cenis pass.


After night 3

There is no prize money for an intermediate sprint, but the first rider to enter France is __Remi Mejean (139)__ and he will be followed by __Adam Bialek (2)__.
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Remi arrived from Bale/Basel through a very small road, and at the same time Adam Bialek is climbing the pass of Mont Saint-Ceniz from Susa.![31CAA22A-D8B7-4C01-9F21-49B8BEE6E04C](//images.ctfassets.net/6hyijb95boju/74wCnvjhrDImSCMkk2c5Gv/9bbb5c3db9d276c73c25ade709731bff/31CAA22A-D8B7-4C01-9F21-49B8BEE6E04C.jpeg)
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First in France !

__Adam Bialek (2)__ rushes in the Plaine du Po towards Milano, with 5 and 6 hours ahead of __Joshua Hampp (152)__ and __Bernhard Ritter (6)__, who are currently on each side of Lake Garda . Bernhard Ritter even stopped to have a fresh foot bath in the lake ! 
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To go till the Massif Central, they will probably have to ride throught the classic Montgenèvre Pass, followed par Lautaret Pass. But they have still some flat roads before climbing again in the french Alps.  
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The northern route is more difficult to predict. For the moment, the first riders are bypassing the tunnel road of the Arlbergpass between Landeck and Bludenz by taking the Silvrettastrasse with the possibility of a cut at the level of the Stausee Kops lake: this morning, __Rémi Mejean (139)__ has chosen a road that climbs from Galtür up to a dead end car park, then an incredible little paved alley goes down in hairpins till Gaschurn ! It seems to be so beautiful.

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Switzerland / Italy

Very few riders have finished parcours 1 at this time. __Remi Mejean(139)__ came out of it on the north while __Adam Bialek(2), Joshua Hampp(152) and Bernhard Ritter(6)__ escaped from it to the south.
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you can see that __Michele Lacomino (189)__ is now off : he didn´t respect start parcours and parcours 1 and we don´t have any explanations of this, it seems unbelievable that he hadn´t read the race manual before ?

![8E8959EB-B8AE-414E-BDAC-9928F5650F1D](//images.ctfassets.net/6hyijb95boju/5VZik8Io0EL06n9rdMN0nr/a0fdf5217ad18407227b6675a6fd5043/8E8959EB-B8AE-414E-BDAC-9928F5650F1D.jpeg)Riders testify to the heat and thunderstorms that make the course in Tyrol difficult. Joshua Hampp took the direction of Bolzano this morning but it was not for an improbable ascent on the northern route via the Brenner Pass: he branched off quite quickly again towards Trento and the Italian route opened by Adam Bialek, far ahead. Joshua simply avoided 400/500 positive elevation.

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__Fanny Bensussan (21)__ was the 9th rider (and first woman) to reach Passo Rombo. She celebrated alone ger birthday after a good night at hotel in San Leonardo in Passiria before the last big climb of Parcours 1.

Stefan Blumm, a dotwatcher, saw her at the top of Jaufenpass/ Passo del Giovo. He took a photo of heer and explained that : " It is amazing warm here at almost 2100 meters with 13 degrees for this time of the day. Fanny came round around 15 minutes later. She slept in a hotel, she said it was well deserved." 

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After night 2

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The riders coming from the North (Adam Bialek, Bernhard Ritter, Joshu Hampp, Marcel Opprercht) are crossing the riders coming from the South (Rémi Méjean, Marcel Knaus, Jimmy Ashby, Bjorn Lenhard) !

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Among all those crossovers, there is the meeting between __Adam Bialek (2)__ and __Bjorn Lenhard (26)__, two great bikepacking champions who had recently met themselves during Race Through Poland.

![chassé croisé](//images.ctfassets.net/6hyijb95boju/6Mopv1BGKTSXOKQA2p8opy/fe7fbf0dd05ba388c52811a827d8aa2c/chass___crois__.jpg)

Hotchpotch in Parcours One

As expected, __Adam Bialek__ was the first to enter parcours 1 via the North route and is tackling the sequence of Rombo>Monte Giovo>Sella passes.

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He must join the Italian Tyrol by taking one of the most beautiful and high cross-border alpine passes. When you don't know the Alps well, the maze of valleys is mysterious and difficult to read. To simplify, this route is located not far (as the crow flies) from an Innsbruck/Bolzano axis, near the major crossing point for North European tourists in search of Italy (Brenner Pass). The 1926 distribution map of the Alps speaks of the Stubai Alps (Stubaier Alpen) or Western Breonie Alps (Italian: Alpi Breonie di Ponente). 

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From north to south, the route is richer in elevation but the climbs are perhaps more regular there, it takes you not far from Lake Garda, which will involve re-crossing the Alps between Italy and France. On this route, Adam is 2 hours ahead of __Bernhard Ritter__ and 2 hours 45 minutes over __Joshua Hampp__. 
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In the other option (South>North), __Rémi Mejean__ is in Cortina d'Ampezzo and he still has to overcome 50km and 1800m of elevation gain over the Falzarego and Pordoï passes. But at the exit of route 1, he could have a milder route (and weather) towards the Massif Central. We will see that in a few days.

To enter the game of PARCOURS ONE

Thomas Chateau

Three Peaks Bike Race 2023 Tracking + Commentary: One for the grimpeurs! A free-route race between three revered European climbs.

Three Peaks Bike Race 2023 Tracking

One for the grimpeurs! A free-route race between three revered European climbs: Passo del Rombo in Dolomites on the Italian-Austrian border, Pas de Peyrol et Puy Mary in the French Massif Central and finally two climbs in the Pyrenees (Col de la Core and Col de Portet d'Aspet), before heading south to the finish in Barcelona, Spain.

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