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Results in the third stage of the Dauphine Libere on Wednesday, a 31km time-trial around
Saint-Paul-en-Jarez:

1. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 44min 59sec (average: 41.34 km/h), 2. Levi Leipheimer (USA/AST) at 19sec, 3. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 20, 4. Mikel Astarloza
(ESP/EUS) 1:00, 5. Maxime Monfort (BEL/COF) 1:01, 6. Stef Clement (NED/BTL) 1:06, 7. Yury Trofimov (RUS/BTL) 1:35, 8. Andriy Grivko (UKR/MRM) 1:47, 9.
Juan Jose Cobo (ESP/SDV) 2:07, 10. Robert Gesink (NED/RAB) 2:08, 11. Oscar Pereiro (ESP/GCE) same time, 12. Samuel Sanchez (ESP/EUS) 2:10, 13. Lars Bak
(DEN/CSC) 2:11, 14. Carlos Barredo (ESP/QST) 2:21, 15. Sergio Paulinho
(POR/AST) 2:26, 16. George Hincapie (USA/THR) 2:32, 17. Laurent Lefèvre
(FRA/BTL) 2:35, 18. Peter Velits (SVQ/MRM) s.t., 19. Remy Di Gregorio
(FRA/FDJ) 2:37.

General classification
1. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 10hr 10min 19sec, 2. Levi Leipheimer
(USA/AST) at 23secs, 3. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 37, 4. Maxime Monfort (BEL/COF) 1:17, 5. Mikel Astarloza (ESP/EUS) 1:20, 6. Andriy Grivko (UKR/MRM) 2:08, 7.
Yury Trofimov (RUS/BTL) 2:10, 8. Robert Gesink (NED/RAB) 2:28, 9. Samuel Sanchez (ESP/EUS) 2:30, 10. Carlos Barredo (ESP/QST) 2:39, 11. George Hincapie
(USA/THR) 2:44, 12. Lars Bak (DEN/CSC) 2:47, 13. Oscar Pereiro (ESP/GCE) 2:48, 14. Laurent Lefevre (FRA/BTL) 2:59, 15. Vladimir Efimkin (RUS/A2R) 2:59, 16.
Peter Velits (SVQ/MRM) 3:00, 17. Sergio Paulinho (POR/AST) 3:09, 18. Remy Di Gregorio (FRA/FDJ) 3:12, 19. Haimar Zubeldia (ESP/EUS) s.t., 20. Dmytro Grabovskyy (UKR/QST) 3:14