January 21/18 10:35 am - Tour Down Under: Stage 6 and Final GC
Posted by Editoress on 01/21/18
Daryl Impey is the new king of Adelaide after taking the Santos Ochre Winner’s Jersey on the city’s streets on Sunday afternoon, while the Be Safe Be Seen MAC Stage 6 was won by André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) over Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-SCOTT) and Peter Sagan (BORA-hansgrohe).
It is the first time a South African has claimed the winner's ochre in the race, and along with neo-pro countryman Nic Dlamini (Team Dimension Data) took the Subaru King of the Mountain winner's jersey following his domination of that classification earlier in this week.
The result is noteworthy for Impey's Mitchelton-SCOTT team as well, given it came to Adelaide seeking stage wins for lead rider Caleb Ewan - not the general classification.
It also means Mitchelton-SCOTT (the current guise of the GreenEDGE operation) draws level with AG2R La Mondiale with four GC wins at the race.
Impey now leads the UCI WorldTour points table - taking 100 points from the event ahead of Richie Porte (BMC) and Tom Jelte-Slagter (Team Dimension Data).
Speaking after the race, Impey dedicated his thrilling victory to his family back in South Africa, but admitted it was a nervous day in the saddle.
"Coming in ... I didn't expect to win the race, but sometimes the stars line up and things go according to plan," Impey said.
"I worked real hard in the off-season, [I'm] so happy to get this win.
"[But] it was pretty hectic... I've been in this position before with Simon [Gerrans] trying to defend the jersey for him.
"I've prepared for that. But it's definitely more nerve-wracking when you have the jersey yourself.
"I'm stoked to get to the line, and obviously with the team I knew it was under control."
For Greipel, the victory extended his stage wins record to 18 at the Santos Tour Down Under.
His Stage 6 win was just the second time this year that a rider had claimed multiple stages (Greipel won Stage 1 in Lyndoch as well).
The peloton was truly out of formation as it swung down Pennington Terrace and onto the final uphill sprint to the line on King William Road.
Quick-Step emerged as the best positioned team on the run to the line, with Elia Viviani gunning for his second victory.
Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-SCOTT) drew level with the Italian, but Greipel came from six deep with his incredible turn of speed to take victory.
2018 marks the first time since 2013 that an Australian has failed to win a classification in the Santos Tour Down Under, highlighting the truly international spirit of the event.
Aside from South Africans Impey and Dlamini winning the Santos Ochre Winner's Jersey and Subaru KOM respectively, triple UCI World Road Champion Peter Sagan won the southaustralia.com sprinter's jersey, and neopro climber Egan Bernal (Sky) claimed the #seesouthaustralia Young Rider's classification.
Bahrain-Merida was crowned the Wilson Parking Winning Team for having the best cumulative time across its line-up.
Results from the sixth and final stage in Australia
| Stage 6: Adelaide Circuit, 90km | |
| 1 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal | 2:01:19 |
| 2 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 3 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 4 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb | |
| 5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 6 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 7 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 8 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 9 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 10 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 11 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 12 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 13 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 14 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 15 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team | |
| 16 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 17 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 18 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 19 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky | |
| 20 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 21 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky | |
| 22 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 23 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 24 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 25 Rudiger Selig (Ger) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 26 Jay McCarthy (Aus) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 27 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 28 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb | |
| 29 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 30 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 31 Luis León Sánchez (Esp) Astana Pro Team | |
| 32 Georg Preidler (Aut) FDJ | |
| 33 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Team Dimension Data | |
| 34 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data | |
| 35 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 36 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 37 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 38 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 39 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky | |
| 40 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 41 Marc Soler (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 42 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 43 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal | |
| 44 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal | |
| 45 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 46 Daniel Oss (Ita) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 47 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 48 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team | |
| 49 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 50 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal | |
| 51 Danilo Wyss (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 52 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 53 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team | |
| 54 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| 55 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 56 Ben O'Connor (Aus) Team Dimension Data | |
| 57 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 58 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 59 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 60 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 61 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 62 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 63 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 64 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 65 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 66 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 67 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 68 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 69 Scott Davies (GBr) Team Dimension Data | |
| 70 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 71 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 72 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | |
| 73 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 74 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 75 Rubén Fernandez (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 76 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 77 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ | |
| 78 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 79 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 80 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 81 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team | |
| 82 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Esp) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 83 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal | |
| 84 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Team Dimension Data | |
| 85 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data | all s.t. |
| 86 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 0:12 |
| 87 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 0:13 |
| 88 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 0:16 |
| 89 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 0:18 |
| 90 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 91 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 92 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team | |
| 93 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb | |
| 94 Antoine Duchesne (Can) FDJ | |
| 95 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 96 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 97 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 98 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 99 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 100 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | |
| 101 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb | all s.t. |
| 102 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:30 |
| 103 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 0:37 |
| 104 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb | 0:40 |
| 105 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | 0:42 |
| 106 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates | 1:05 |
| 107 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida | 1:09 |
| 108 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 1:10 |
| 109 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 1:20 |
| 110 Jaime Castrillo (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 111 Davide Cimolai (Ita) FDJ | |
| 112 Scott Bowden (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 113 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) BORA-hansgrohe | all s.t. |
| 114 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 1:31 |
| 115 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 1:46 |
| 116 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo | 2:04 |
| 117 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 2:10 |
| 118 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 119 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) BORA-hansgrohe | both s.t. |
| 120 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA-hansgrohe | 2:19 |
| 121 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 2:43 |
| 122 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | s.t. |
| 123 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky | 3:23 |
| 124 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac | 4:26 |
| 125 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 4:46 |
| Final GC | |
| 1 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 20:03:34 |
| 2 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team | at s.t. |
| 3 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Team Dimension Data | 0:16 |
| 4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 0:20 |
| 5 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 6 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky | |
| 7 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | all s.t. |
| 8 Luis León Sánchez (Esp) Astana Pro Team | 0:23 |
| 9 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 10 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 0:24 |
| 11 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 12 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 13 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 14 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 15 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 16 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb | |
| 17 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | all s.t. |
| 18 Ben O'Connor (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 0:26 |
| 19 Jay McCarthy (Aus) BORA-hansgrohe | 0:29 |
| 20 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 21 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 22 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | all s.t. |
| 23 Scott Davies (GBr) Team Dimension Data | 0:45 |
| 24 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Esp) EF Education First-Drapac | 0:57 |
| 25 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 1:01 |
| 26 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team | 1:12 |
| 27 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal | 1:22 |
| 28 Georg Preidler (Aut) FDJ | 1:26 |
| 29 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 1:28 |
| 30 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 1:46 |
| 31 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo | 1:57 |
| 32 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-hansgrohe | 2:25 |
| 33 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal | 3:04 |
| 34 Marc Soler (Esp) Movistar Team | 3:09 |
| 35 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates | 3:11 |
| 36 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo | 5:24 |
| 37 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin | 6:16 |
| 38 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 6:28 |
| 39 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 6:34 |
| 40 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale | 6:53 |
| 41 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 7:06 |
| 42 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 7:42 |
| 43 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida | 9:00 |
| 44 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 9:57 |
| 45 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | 10:30 |
| 46 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | 10:34 |
| 47 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 11:01 |
| 48 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb | 11:02 |
| 49 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale | 11:20 |
| 50 Rubén Fernandez (Esp) Movistar Team | 11:24 |
| 51 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo | 11:43 |
| 52 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | 12:00 |
| 53 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | 12:41 |
| 54 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 12:47 |
| 55 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin | 13:45 |
| 56 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb | 13:46 |
| 57 Danilo Wyss (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 13:47 |
| 58 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 13:50 |
| 59 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team | 14:18 |
| 60 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 15:30 |
| 61 Daniel Oss (Ita) BORA-hansgrohe | 15:43 |
| 62 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 16:09 |
| 63 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo | 16:22 |
| 64 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky | 16:32 |
| 65 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 16:34 |
| 66 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | 17:02 |
| 67 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team | 17:15 |
| 68 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo | 17:19 |
| 69 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 17:46 |
| 70 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 18:32 |
| 71 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 18:36 |
| 72 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team | 19:55 |
| 73 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 20:18 |
| 74 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 20:20 |
| 75 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors | 21:05 |
| 76 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 22:55 |
| 77 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 23:01 |
| 78 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Esp) Movistar Team | 23:27 |
| 79 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale | 23:34 |
| 80 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ | 23:46 |
| 81 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac | 24:01 |
| 82 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 24:12 |
| 83 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 24:22 |
| 84 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 24:45 |
| 85 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 24:58 |
| 86 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Team Dimension Data | 25:27 |
| 87 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team | 27:13 |
| 88 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 28:13 |
| 89 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 28:20 |
| 90 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 28:25 |
| 91 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) BORA-hansgrohe | 28:40 |
| 92 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | 29:06 |
| 93 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin | 29:24 |
| 94 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb | 30:35 |
| 95 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 30:48 |
| 96 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal | 31:08 |
| 97 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 31:21 |
| 98 Antoine Duchesne (Can) FDJ | 33:18 |
| 99 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data | 33:40 |
| 100 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky | 33:55 |
| 101 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 34:27 |
| 102 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 35:10 |
| 103 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 35:45 |
| 104 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 35:46 |
| 105 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 36:12 |
| 106 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors | 36:16 |
| 107 Jaime Castrillo (Esp) Movistar Team | 37:01 |
| 108 Rudiger Selig (Ger) BORA-hansgrohe | 38:14 |
| 109 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal | 39:07 |
| 110 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | 39:09 |
| 111 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 39:39 |
| 112 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) BORA-hansgrohe | 39:51 |
| 113 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo | 41:09 |
| 114 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | 41:24 |
| 115 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky | 41:25 |
| 116 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo | 41:33 |
| 117 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac | 41:46 |
| 118 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 41:49 |
| 119 Scott Bowden (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 43:13 |
| 120 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb | 45:21 |
| 121 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo | 47:29 |
| 122 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA-hansgrohe | 53:09 |
| 123 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida | 55:28 |
| 124 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 56:34 |
| 125 Davide Cimolai (Ita) FDJ | 59:55 |
| Sprint GC: Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| KOM: Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data | |
| Team GC: Bahrain-Merida | |
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