Giulio Pellizzari wins hilly Stage 3 in Bad Dürkheim

Pellizzari takes the hilly stage

Giulio Pellizzari won Stage 3 of the Lidl Deutschland Tour 2026, a 170.8-kilometre hilly stage from Herxheim to Bad Dürkheim.

The important structural detail is that this was hilly terrain, but not a summit finish. That matters because the stage was not simply about who could climb best at the line. A non-summit finish after a hilly day tends to reward a rider who can handle the repeated load of the course and still have enough left for the closing kilometres into the finish town.

Within the facts provided, Pellizzari is the rider who converted that terrain into the stage win. Without listed climb details, time gaps, or finishing order beyond the winner, the clean takeaway is that Stage 3 produced a selective enough profile to suit a durable finisher rather than a pure uphill finale scenario.

GC picture after Stage 3

Isaac del Toro is listed first overall after the stage, with Louis Barré second and Marc Hirschi third.

There are no time gaps or jersey-change details provided, so the GC impact should be read narrowly: the post-stage top three is del Toro, Barré, and Hirschi. On a hilly stage like this, the main GC significance is that the race has reached Bad Dürkheim with del Toro still at the head of the standings and two major chasers directly behind him in the listed order.