Lee Westwood of England and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland tied for third place with three under par.
Home hopes dwindled as David Drysdale struggled to a 75 and slipped from third place after three rounds to thirtieth spot.
Despite catching Newport, Cardiff remain in third place, still three points behind leaders Swansea, who have a priceless game in hand.
However, his second place means the Spaniard now requires one third-place finish in any of the final three races to become the youngest world champion.
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Sweden retained its No. 1 ranking from last year while Finland improved three places to place third.
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The Yankees fell into a third-place tie with Tampa Bay, three games back.
But Craig Levein's side have designs on third place and have drawn each of their three league meetings with Celtic this season.
For me, the third place is not the last of the three places, but the middle place of an important sequence of holiday experiences.
It's a significant move for a team that was fourth in the Western Conference and three games behind the third-place Clippers.
The Liberal Democrats came third, with the Conservatives in fourth place just three votes ahead of the Peace Party's Imdad Hussain.
The 1-0 defeat leaves Celtic in third place in Group E after two matches, three points adrift of Manchester United and Villarreal.
Ford's Estonian Markko Martin was nearly three minutes adrift of Solberg in third place.
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"We are in a three-way split decision for third place, " the senator from Connecticut told supporters.
So it came as no surprise when third place came back into play after Chelsea won just three of its last six.
For three successive tournaments Nigeria finished in third place before crashing out at the quarterfinal stage of the 2008 edition in a 2-1 defeat by Ghana.
Wie played seven events this year and finished no lower than 23rd, including three second-place finishes and one third-place finish.
Despres came home 1:39 ahead of Gerard Farres Guell, with Coma back in third place, although the gap is still comparatively small with three stages still remaining.
After leading the table going into Tuesday's fixtures, Crusaders drop to third place on goal difference behind new leaders Linfield and Glentoran - with all three teams on 31 points.
In other action, Inter Milan's Champions League chances receded with a 3-1 loss at Parma which left the 2010 European titleholders three points behind Napoli and Udinese in the race for third place.
High new entries also went to Enrique Iglesias' Greatest Hits collection at number three, who beat Razorlight's third album Slipway Fires into fourth place.
The tie moved the U.S. (1-1-1) into third place in World Cup qualifying for the North and Central American and Caribbean region after three of 10 matches, one point behind Panama.
England's Luke Donald matched his Ryder Cup colleague McDowell with a 69 -- only three men shot under 70 on the final day -- to share third place with Kevin Streelman.
Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen, three points behind Hamilton in this year's title race, took third place in the grid with one minute 18.735 seconds while Fernando Alonso of Renault will start the race alongside the Finn in fourth.
Indeed, Milan has had a whole range of players stepping up in turn, like centerforward Giampaolo Pazzini, who earlier this season went 11 games without scoring, but on Saturday notched two of the three goals that sank Lazio, allowing Milan to leapfrog its opponent into third place.
Just three points off a relegation place in mid-February, this was only their third loss in 13 games since.
It has three days to do this before the Syriza Party gets a shot and then the third place, Pasok Party gets a try.
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