January 14/18 8:21 am - Women's Tour Down Under: Stage 4 and final GC
Posted by Editoress on 01/14/18
Spratt claimed a second Santos WTDU overall victory as Hosking wins Stage 4
Mitchelton-SCOTT’s Amanda Spratt survived a scare on lap eight to claim her second Santos Women’s Tour Down Under GC win in a street race finale won by Ale Cipollini’s Chloe Hosking.
Hosking’s teammates mobilised to the front of the peloton on the final lap, giving her the perfect opportunity to launch to the line and claim the stage.
Spratt, who earned Ochre during a commanding performance into Hahndorf on Saturday’s gruelling third stage, made history as the first to claim multiple, and consecutive, Santos WTDU titles.
She went into the straightforward 20-lap criterium with a comfortable 29-second buffer over her nearest rival Lauren Stephens (Cylance), and a further 90 seconds back to Katrin Garfoot (UniSA-Australia).
In a straightforward 20-lap criterium, Spratt’s lead was ultimately – and unsurprisingly – unassailable, but the champion encountered a hairy moment in the dash to the line of the Subaru Prime on lap eight, when a pack of riders crashed down Wakefield Road.
While she was able to avoid the initial carnage, she was run into by the riders behind.
“I actually had time to stop, but the people behind me didn’t see it and someone zoomed into the back of me,” Spratt said.
“I was very shaken up, but my team was awesome: Jess Allen stopped, Annemiek stopped (Van Vleuten) just calming me down.
“I’m so thankful to them.”
Straight off the bike, Spratt admitted the feeling of claiming victory in the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under was still sinking in.
But claiming victory filled her with pride, having competed at the first women’s national series races at Tour before the emergence of the UCI-graded Santos Women’s Tour Down Under in 2016.
“I’m really happy… it’s such a special race, I’m really proud of this race,” Spratt said.
“I think I’ve been in Adelaide for every (women’s) edition at the Tour Down Under – even when it was a bunch of criteriums – so I feel like I’ve grown with the race as well.
“Just to see it grow like this, it’s special, and it’s a really important race for Mitchelton-SCOTT.
The only Canadian entry, Alison Jackson (Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) finished 9th in the same time as the winner and finished 27th in the GC at 4:13 back.
Results
| Stage 4: Adelaide City, 46 km | |
| 1 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Ale Cipollini | 1:07:29 |
| 2 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Cylance Pro Cycling | |
| 3 Annette Edmondson (Aus) Wiggle High5 | |
| 4 Abigail Van Twisk (GBr) Trek-Drops | |
| 5 Maria Vittoria Sperotto (Ita) BePink | |
| 6 Emilie Moberg (Nor) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 7 Jelena Eric (Srb) Cylance Pro Cycling | |
| 8 Sarah Roy (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 9 Alison Jackson (Can) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 10 Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 11 Rachele Barbieri (Ita) Wiggle High5 | |
| 12 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 13 Georgia Baker (Aus) TIS Racing | |
| 14 Eva Buurman (Ned) Trek-Drops | |
| 15 Grace Brown (Aus) Holden Team Gusto Racing | |
| 16 Katrin Garfoot (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 17 Mikayla Harvey (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | |
| 18 Alex Manly (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 19 Amanda Spratt (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 20 Kristina Clonan (Aus) TIS Racing | |
| 21 Kate McIlroy (NZl) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 22 Danielle Morshead (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 23 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 24 Amy Cure (Aus) Wiggle High5 | |
| 25 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 26 Georgia Whitehouse (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | |
| 27 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Cylance Pro Cycling | |
| 28 Shannon Malseed (Aus) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 29 Shayna Powless (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 30 Erica Magnaldi (Ita) BePink | |
| 31 Taryn Heather (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 32 Ashlee Ankudinoff (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 33 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 34 Barbara Guarischi (Ita) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 35 Sharlotte Lucas (NZl) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 36 Christel Van Loo (Ned) Maaslandster International | |
| 37 Maeve Plouffe (Aus) TIS Racing | |
| 38 Jessica Mundy (Aus) TIS Racing | |
| 39 Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Fra) Wiggle High5 | |
| 40 Lucy Kennedy (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 41 Linda Villumsen (NZl) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 42 Amanda Jamieson (NZl) Maaslandster International | |
| 43 Kathrin Hammes (Ger) Trek-Drops | |
| 44 Margot Clyne (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 45 Emma Grant (GBr) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 46 Grace Anderson (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | |
| 47 Deborah Paine (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | |
| 48 Rylee Mcmullen (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | |
| 49 Holly Marie Breck (USA) Cylance Pro Cycling | |
| 50 Lucy Bechtel (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 51 Riejanne Markus (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | |
| 52 Francesca Pattaro (Ita) BePink | |
| 53 Kendall Ryan (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | all s.t. |
| 54 Angela Smith (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | 0:13 |
| 55 Lauren Stephens (USA) Cylance Pro Cycling | |
| 56 Emily Newsom (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 57 Ella Bloor (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | |
| 58 Gina Ricardo (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | |
| 59 Kathryn Buss (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 60 Scotti Lechuga-Wilborne (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 61 Anouska Koster (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | |
| 62 Jessica Allen (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | |
| 63 Jeanne Korevaar (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | |
| 64 Eri Yonamine (Jpn) Wiggle High5 | |
| 65 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Holden Team Gusto Racing | |
| 66 Louise Norman Hansen (Den) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 67 Lauretta Hanson (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 68 Erica Clevenger (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | |
| 69 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Virtu Cycling | |
| 70 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) BePink | all s.t. |
| 71 Roxanne Knetemann (Ned) Ale Cipollini | 0:21 |
| 72 Karlijn Swinkels (Ned) Ale Cipollini | |
| 73 Megan Scott (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | all s.t. |
| 74 Annasley Park (GBr) Trek-Drops | 0:24 |
| 75 Soraya Paladin (Ita) Ale Cipollini | 0:28 |
| 76 Rachel Neylan (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 1:07 |
| DNS Molly Weaver (GBr) Trek-Drops | |
| DNS Tayler Wiles (USA) Trek-Drops | |
| GC | |
| 1 Amanda Spratt (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | 10:47:21 |
| 2 Lauren Stephens (USA) Cylance Pro Cycling | at 0:41 |
| 3 Katrin Garfoot (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 1:21 |
| 4 Lucy Kennedy (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | 1:36 |
| 5 Grace Brown (Aus) Holden Team Gusto Racing | 1:54 |
| 6 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Mitchelton Scott | 2:07 |
| 7 Shannon Malseed (Aus) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 2:09 |
| 8 Kate McIlroy (NZl) Specialized Women's Racing | 2:25 |
| 9 Grace Anderson (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | 2:42 |
| 10 Emma Grant (GBr) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 2:46 |
| 11 Taryn Heather (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | 2:49 |
| 12 Kathrin Hammes (Ger) Trek-Drops | s.t. |
| 13 Mikayla Harvey (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | 2:54 |
| 14 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Ale Cipollini | 3:09 |
| 15 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol) Team Virtu Cycling | 3:11 |
| 16 Linda Villumsen (NZl) Team Virtu Cycling | 3:15 |
| 17 Abigail Van Twisk (GBr) Trek-Drops | 3:24 |
| 18 Roxanne Knetemann (Ned) Ale Cipollini | s.t. |
| 19 Sharlotte Lucas (NZl) Specialized Women's Racing | 3:25 |
| 20 Amy Cure (Aus) Wiggle High5 | 3:26 |
| 21 Erica Magnaldi (Ita) BePink | 3:29 |
| 22 Eva Buurman (Ned) Trek-Drops | 3:31 |
| 23 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 3:39 |
| 24 Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Fra) Wiggle High5 | 3:56 |
| 25 Shayna Powless (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 4:07 |
| 26 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Cylance Pro Cycling | 4:08 |
| 27 Alison Jackson (Can) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 4:13 |
| 28 Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 4:16 |
| 29 Georgia Baker (Aus) TIS Racing | 4:18 |
| 30 Deborah Paine (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | 4:20 |
| 31 Annette Edmondson (Aus) Wiggle High5 | 4:31 |
| 32 Maeve Plouffe (Aus) TIS Racing | 4:39 |
| 33 Scotti Lechuga-Wilborne (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 5:03 |
| 34 Anouska Koster (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 35 Alex Manly (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | 5:10 |
| 36 Jeanne Korevaar (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 37 Amanda Jamieson (NZl) Maaslandster International | 5:26 |
| 38 Rachel Neylan (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 5:27 |
| 39 Jessica Mundy (Aus) TIS Racing | 5:31 |
| 40 Riejanne Markus (Ned) Waowdeals Pro Cycling Team | 5:37 |
| 41 Ashlee Ankudinoff (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | 5:42 |
| 42 Eri Yonamine (Jpn) Wiggle High5 | 5:45 |
| 43 Erica Clevenger (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 5:55 |
| 44 Sarah Roy (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | 6:00 |
| 45 Lucy Bechtel (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | 6:07 |
| 46 Jessica Allen (Aus) Mitchelton Scott | 6:13 |
| 47 Rachele Barbieri (Ita) Wiggle High5 | 6:49 |
| 48 Soraya Paladin (Ita) Ale Cipollini | s.t. |
| 49 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 7:29 |
| 50 Christel Van Loo (Ned) Maaslandster International | 8:07 |
| 51 Emilie Moberg (Nor) Team Virtu Cycling | 8:22 |
| 52 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Virtu Cycling | 8:46 |
| 53 Lauretta Hanson (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 9:38 |
| 54 Kathryn Buss (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 12:46 |
| 55 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Cylance Pro Cycling | 14:45 |
| 56 Maria Vittoria Sperotto (Ita) BePink | 15:54 |
| 57 Karlijn Swinkels (Ned) Ale Cipollini | 16:39 |
| 58 Kristina Clonan (Aus) TIS Racing | 16:58 |
| 59 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Holden Team Gusto Racing | 17:12 |
| 60 Margot Clyne (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 17:56 |
| 61 Barbara Guarischi (Ita) Team Virtu Cycling | 18:21 |
| 62 Ella Bloor (Aus) Specialized Women's Racing | 19:28 |
| 63 Emily Newsom (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 20:19 |
| 64 Georgia Whitehouse (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | 20:54 |
| 65 Megan Scott (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | 21:03 |
| 66 Holly Marie Breck (USA) Cylance Pro Cycling | 22:01 |
| 67 Francesca Pattaro (Ita) BePink | 22:55 |
| 68 Louise Norman Hansen (Den) Team Virtu Cycling | 23:38 |
| 69 Rylee Mcmullen (NZl) Vantage New Zealand National Team | 23:58 |
| 70 Kendall Ryan (USA) Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank | 24:02 |
| 71 Angela Smith (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | 24:48 |
| 72 Jelena Eric (Srb) Cylance Pro Cycling | 26:47 |
| 73 Danielle Morshead (USA) Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air | 29:21 |
| 74 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) BePink | 31:52 |
| 75 Annasley Park (GBr) Trek-Drops | 35:49 |
| 76 Gina Ricardo (Aus) Sydney Uni-Staminade Women's Cycling Team | 39:14 |
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