Dane Mads Pedersen won the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice in the sprint on Tuesday March 8 at Dun-le-Palestel in Creuse, on the eve of the time trial. Frenchman Christophe Laporte retained the leader’s yellow jersey despite an apparent minor fall in the final hectometres. In a rising false flat sprint, Pedersen beat Frenchman Bryan Coquard and Belgian champion Wout van Aert. The 26-year-old Dane, world champion in 2019, took his 20th victory, the second of the season.