Colombian star Nairo Quintana won the third stage of the Tour de La Provence on Saturday on Mont Ventoux to claim the race overall lead. The former Vuelta a Espana and Giro d'Italia winner, and two-time Tour de France runner-up, launched a lightning attack seven kilometres from the finish to leave his rivals in his wake. He won the stage by almost a minute from Kazakhstan's Alexey Lutsenko. Quintana, 30, now leads Russian Aleksandr Vlasov by one minute and four seconds in the general classification. bur-dif/vg/jc/dj