Albanian national champion Olsian Velia has won the Elbasan / Valona stage, the third stage of the Tour of Albania, contested over a distance of 146 kilometers. Behind the 31-year-old rider were British rider Oscar Hutchings, 33, registered with Schils – Doltcini, and Mees Jacobs, a Dutch rider from Wielerploeg Groot Amsterdam, who completed the day's podium. In the Valona finish, Filippo Cecchi's (Bike Academy Marchini Costruzioni) twelfth place is also noteworthy. No changes in the general classification: Niels Reemeijer, yesterday's winner, remains in command and is followed by his teammate Tom Jonkmans, with Italian-Albanian Gabriele De Fabritiis (eighth in today's stage) in third position.