Riding for the Belkin Pro Cycling Team, the 31-year old Bos made good use of information on the turns heading into the finish line in Pekan to deliver his second stage win of this edition, after winning Stage 2 from Sungai Petani to Taiping.
Bos was led-out by the experienced Australian Greame Brown, who himself has 9 LTdL stage wins under his name, as the peloton was swept aside in the bunch sprint for a dominant win, similar to their one-two finish in Taiping where the rest of the pack were left trailing by a significant distance.
"I had some information from the team car and from those who were already at the finish line, plus we had studied the finish profile before the stage, so I knew exactly where there would be turns and corners, I knew there would be a turn with 500m to go," said Bos.
The day was marked by a long breakaway with four riders - Yellow Fluo's Yonnatha Monsalve (the overall winner in 2011), Orica-GreenEDGE's Brett Lancaster, OCBC Singapore's Eric Sheppard and Colombia's Duber Quintero, the winner of Stage 1 in Langkawi.
After opening up a gap of more than 4 minutes, which would have put Monsalve in the overall lead, the peloton began to reel in the breakaway to catch them at 15km to go and preserve the yellow jersey of Tabriz Petrochemical's Mirsamad Pourseyedigolakhour.
At the finish, Bos finished well ahead of Orica-GreenEDGE's Aidis Kroupis and Leonardo Duque of Colombia.
"Heading into the finish, we knew that Kroupis was without Lancaster, who would have been tired after the breakaway. So, we believed we had a bit of an advantage," said Bos. "We have more stages to look at from tomorrow with the race being flat all the way to the finish, so we can definitely be looking at more wins."
The result also saw Kroupis disappointed with not winning the stage, but he did manage to take charge of the blue jersey as the new leader of the points classification from OCBC Singapore's Thomas Rabou. The red jersey for the mountains classification lead remained with Synergy-Baku's Matt Brammeier, who has held it from Stage 1.
Tomorrow will present another long stage, covering 202.3km from Kuantan to Marang, with another bunch sprint expected.
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