After the two first sessions at Nessadiou, and Sunday’s “rest day”, the “Six Days de la Province Sud” track cycling event moved to the Velodrome of New Caledonia’s main city Nouméa, where it resumed on Monday evening with the third leg of this contest.

And with good news for 29-year-old Florian Rousseau who, after an impressive string of second and third place finishes, finally managed to score a victory, as he edged out Nouméa’s very own Laurent Gané in the “Vitesse” competition. Britain’s Craig Mc Lean filled the remaining podium spot ahead of Laurent’s cousin Hervé Gané.

But crowd favorite Laurent Gané, recent winner of the "Vélo d'Or" prize awarded by French journalists (the Nouméa-born track specialist got this honour for the second time as he received 86 votes, 19 more than Richard Virenque, 46 more than TdF Final Stage winner Jean-Patrick Nazon 40) took revenge soon later. Gané won the Keirin (which he's also World Champion of - btw) event, ahead of Australian Jason Niblett, who put on a surprising performance and improved on the third place he got at Nessadiou on Saturday, while Rousseau was back to old habits as he snatched third in Nouméa.

As to the main race, Germany’s Eric Weispfennig and Stefan Steinweg won the first Madison of the night, but lost the overall lead to local favorites Jean-Michel Tessier (winners of the last two editions of the Nouméa Six, and aiming for a possible hat-trick) and Robert Sassone, after the Neo Caledonian pairing dominated the second chase ahead of local rider Thierry Fondère and his Swiss teammate David Gisiger.

Nothing changed at the top of the “Mini 6 Jours”, with the Zahn brothers (Tuana and Tevitu) still in the lead, even though winners of Monday’s session were last year’s runners-up Kévin Maitere and François Tejada.

Sprinters: Vitesse
1. Florian Rousseau (Fra)
2. Laurent Gané (Fra)
3. Craig Mc Lean (GBR)

Six Days of Nouméa - Madison #2
1. Jean-Michel Tessier - Robert Sassone (N.Cal.)

Six Days of Nouméa - GC after Night 3
1. Jean Michel Tessier - Robert Sassone (N.Cal.) - 156 points
2. Eric Weispfennig - Stefan Steinweg (Ger) - 145 points
3. Franck Perque - Fabien Merciris (Fra) - 76 points
4. Benoît Genauzeau - Julien Tejada (Fra) - 75 points

at 1 lap
5. Yaroslav Popovych - Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) - 30 points

at 3 laps
6. David Gisiger (Swi) - Thierry Fondère (N.Cal.) - 58 points
7. Jerry Bousquet - Wilfried Loquet (N.Cal.) - 38 points

at 4 laps
8. Richard Bowker - Troy Klink (NZL) - 31 points
9. Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) - Nicolas Nagle (Fra) - 20 points

at 7 laps
10. Michael Lewis/Peter Fitzpatrick (Aus) - 7 points
11. Xavier Latoupie (Fra) - 0 points

at 8 laps
12. Shinichi Fukushima - Takehiro Mizutani (Jap) - 35 points

at 27 laps
13. Adam Curry (NZL) - Kevin Aubrey (Aus) - 6 points

at 1 lap
2. Kevin Maïtéré - François Tejada - 64 points
3. Chris Young - Cyril Guillemard - 33 points
4. Jean-Noël Royer - Adam Coker - 30 points
5. Florian Bonnerot - Grégory Lemaitre - 16 points

at 3 laps
6. Guillaume Geiller - Arnaud D’Arcangelo - 0 points
7. Enrico Dubain - Alexandre Gauthier - 0 points

at 4 laps
8. Jérémy Porterat - Kevin Harrault - 0 points

at 10 laps
9. Richard Berton - Jonathan Dangio - 14 points