Tour Down Under - Highlights

Santos Tour Down Under is the first UCI World Tour race of the year. Many riders want to get  a good start of the year and therefore is the race really popular. Especially between the sprinters and other good people on the flat. Great sprinteres like Andre Griepel, Alessandro Petacchi, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Oscar Freire and Daniele Bennati completed this years tour. While Alejandro Valverde was back from his quarantine. Since this is the biggest race in Australia, then there was many good Australian riders too like Michael Rogers, Robbie McEwen, Simon Gerrans, Mark Renshaw and Michael Matthews. So there was many good riders to fight against each other and make the race interesting for the viewers.

Here is the highlights of the race:

Stage 1 

Results:
1. Andre Greipel
2. Alessandro Petacchi
3. Martin Kohler

 

Stage 2

Results:
1. Will Clarke
2. Michael Matthews
3. Simon Gerrans

 

Stage 3

Results:
1. Andre Greipel
2. Yauheni Hutarovich
3. Edvald Boasson Hagen

 

Stage 4

Results:
1. Oscar Freire
2. Gerald Ciolek
3. Daniele Bennati

 

Stage 5

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Results:
1. Alejandro Valverde
2. Simon Gerrans
3. Tiago Machado

 

Stage 6

Results:
1. Andre Greipel
2. Mark Renshaw
3. Alessandro Petacchi

 

After the 6 stages the general classifications looks like this:

1. Simon Gerrans 20h46'12"
2. Alejandro Valverde s.t.
3. Tiago Machado +8"

Rohan Dennis won king of the mountain jersey, while Edvald Boasson Hagen won the sprinters jersey.