Final KM: Santos Tour Down Under Stage 6

First WorldTour race of the year winds up with the Adelaide circuit sprint. It was hectic, it was fast, there were some cheeky chances taken and I don’t think anyone predicted the final GC podium.

Stage 6: Adelaide to Adelaide, 90km

Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) claimed victory by a bike throw after he hunted down Mitchelton-SCOTT’s Caleb Ewan in the final metres. Points jersey winner Peter Sagan (BORA-hansgrohe) rounded out the podium. Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-SCOTT) finished safely to claim the overall on countback from BMC’s Richie Porte with Tom-Jelte Slagter (Dimension Data) in 3rd at +16secs. Two neopros go home with jerseys: Egan Bernal (Sky) as best young rider and Dimension Datas’s Nickolas Dlamini the polkadots. Best team overall was Bahrain-Merida.

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Victorious

The King of #TDU #Adelaide #Australia. 2nd victory this week, 18th in history. Congratz @Lotto_Soudal and @AndreGreipel! pic.twitter.com/y6YBgwSVnV

— Lotto Soudal (@Lotto_Soudal) January 21, 2018

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“W I N N E R” . . @tourdownunder @imps28 . . #cyclingimages #tourdownunder #tdu #impey #winner #podium #confetti

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It all seems impossible until it's done ! What a crazy and fantastic week for me and @MitcheltonSCOTT riders and staff. This will take some time to sink in https://t.co/cruGRfrAZV

— Daryl Impey (@darylimpey) January 21, 2018

If you can finish second behind Ewan in Stirling, second behind Sagan in Uraidla and second behind Porte on Willunga then you absolutely deserve to win the Tour.

— Reece Homfray (@reecehomfray) January 20, 2018

A tightly packed top 20 on GC and bonus seconds available on the sprints meant top 10 positions to play for. Trek-Segafredo’s Ruben Guerreiro and Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana) both took their chances and moved up to 9th and 8th respectively. Well played!

Wahoo!
Great communication from @laurent_didier to let @Rguerreiro94 know the break was falling apart.
Ruben has taken the 3rd place time bonus for the one second he needs to move from 13th to 8th GC!!! pic.twitter.com/w9zJlHRulL

— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) January 21, 2018

At the first intermediate sprint, @gatto_oscar led out @LLEONSANCHEZ for a sprint to win 2 bonus seconds, enough to get eight place in final general classification. That was a perfect team's strategy! #AstanaProTeam #TDU

— Astana Pro Team (@AstanaTeam) January 21, 2018

That’s a wrap from the first FINAL KM of 2018, look out for our Race Report later…

This worked out pretty well. Both Mads and Mads finished in the top 10 on the final stage @tourdownunder
📸 @TrekSegafredo pic.twitter.com/1J1GZSegTE

— CORSO (@CORSOsports) January 21, 2018

Full report at Cycling News

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