12 Mar 2009

Roulston 43rd in latest Paris-Nice race stage

7:45 am on 12 March 2009

The New Zealand cyclist Hayden Roulsten has slipped to 47th after three stages of the Paris-Nice race.

Roulston finished 43rd in the 178-kilometre Orval - Vichy stage overnight.

Roulston is more than three and a half minutes off the leader, Sylvain Chavanel of France.