Tour Down Under 2017 – Stage 5 [FULL STAGE]

January 21, 2016

Tour Down Under 2017 – Stage 5 – McLaren Vale – Willunga Hill – 151,5 km

The 2007 Tour Down Under was held from 16 to 21 January 2007 in Australia. It was a multiple stage road cycling race that took part over five stages with a total of 667 kilometres and is part of the 2006-2007 UCI Oceania Tour. The 2007 Down Under Classic was the official warm-up race for the event.

Richie Porte (BMC Racing) solidified his overall lead at the Tour Down Under on Saturday, once again proving he’s easily the strongest rider at the WorldTour opener by riding away from the rest of the contenders on Willunga Hill to take his second stage win of the race. Nathan Haas (Dimension Data) put in an impressive effort on the climb, finishing ahead of Esteban Chaves (Orica-Scott) to take second.

Porte now leads the overall by 48 seconds over Chaves, while Haas jumped to third overall, 51 seconds back. Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), who started the day second overall, struggled on the final climb and dropped out of the top 10.

Porte arrived at the bottom of the climb with all the major contenders after the peloton reeled in the survivors from the day’s breakaway. Team Sky set the tempo at the bottom for Sergio Henao, but Port was having none of it and jumped away with about 2km remaining. Rafael calls (Lotto Soudal) and Chaves initially tried to stay with him, but just like on the stage 2 climb to Paracombe, they were no match of this power.

Porte acknowledged his performance on Willunga Hill made his job on Sunday a bit easier with another dominant performance on Willunga Hill.

“I think it will make tomorrow a little bit more relaxed for us,” he said.

Porte also said his performance so far this week, with another stage win on the difficult Paracombe climb, bodes well for his season.

“This is not an easy climb, so to win it is great for morale,” he said. “Obviously the biggest goal this year is in July at the Tour de France, but things are going well.”

How it happened

While it may have been dethroned of its status as ‘queen stage’ of the Tour Down Under, the familiar stage 5 roll out from McLaren Vale, out to the beach for three circuits, and up Willunga Hill twice was buzzing with anticipation and nerves from riders and fans alike.

The McLaren Vale start saw 132 riders burst out of the blocks with Julien Berard (AG2R La Mondiale) and Will Clarke (Cannondale-Drapac) quick to make a move as Jacques Janse Van Rensburg (Dimension Data) and Arnaud Courteille (FDJ) decided it was a break they wanted to infiltrate. The peloton thought otherwise and brought the duo back.

Clarke tried again and was joined by Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) in the KOM jersey, Jeremy Maison (FDJ), and yesterday’s co-most combative rider Jack Bauer (Quick – Step Floors). The quartet established a minute lead over the chasing peloton in a matter of kilometres as the bunch considered then accepted the breakaway.

The BMC-controlled peloton let the break get out to a touch over 2:30 and let it hover over the circuits around Aldinga and back through the start line in McLaren Vale. BMC’s presence of six riders dropped to four as the race closed within 50km of the finish line, but the gap continued to hover around two minutes. De Gent decided to push the pace and as a result, the break’s advantage ballooned out to almost three minutes.

At the 30km to go mark, the four leaders turned onto lap one of two up Willunga with a 2:30 minute advantage over the bunch. Clarke was the first casualty in the breakaway, going backwards as the quartet started to ascend the 3km climb. Team Sunweb and UAE Abu Dhabi came to the fore of the chasing peloton behind the now-three leaders before Chris Hamilton decided to have a dig and shake things up.

Bahrain-Merida’s Giovanni Visconti jumped onto Hamilton’s wheel with the duo hanging out in front the peloton. At the head of the race, De Gent temporarily took the lead in the KOM classification by 16 points over Porte as he led Bauer over the finish line for lap one, 1:45 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Visconti and the peloton 10 seconds behind the duo.

Team Sky, Lotto Soudal, Orica-Scott and BMC swelled to the front after cresting to the climb and racing down Crest Road. On the back half of the lap around Penny’s Hill Road and McCurtie Road before taking the left-hand turn into Main Road on the long straight into the base of the climb, the gap continued to fall towards the one-minute mark.

With 10km to go, the gap was down to 45 seconds for the three leaders, with Sky, Orica and BMC continuing the chase to set up it leaders for the final ascent. Ian Stannard buried himself along Main Road to ensure hard and fast run into the climb, further shredding the size of the already reduced peloton. Daryl Impey did the same for Orica-Scott as Porte was down to just one teammate in Rohan Dennis. With 6km left in the race the three leaders quickly spat out the back once caught by the peloton, bar Bauer who turned workhorse for one final dig.

Izaguirre was quickly going backwards on the first few hundred metres of the climb with Kenny Elissonde taking up the pace for Henao. Sebastian Heano took over when Elissonde pulled off, then briefly slipped away and had his own gap as Chaves looked to others to chase him down. That was enough to spur on Porte, who jumped out of the saddle, quickly caught and passed Sebastian Henao then drilled it for the line, padding his overall lead by another 20 seconds.

Results :
1 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 3:40:13
2 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:20
3 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-Scott
4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
5 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
6 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:00:23
7 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal
8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky
9 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
10 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
11 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
12 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
13 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:28
14 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 0:00:32
15 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team
16 Michael Storer (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:00:35
17 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:39
18 Ondrej Cink (Cze) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:40
19 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
20 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:44
21 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:46
22 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:00
23 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:01:01
24 Jai Hindley (Aus) UniSA-Australia
25 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
26 Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col) Team Sky
27 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac
28 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:01:09
29 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
30 Víctor de la Parte (Spa) Movistar Team
31 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:22
32 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin
33 Francois Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
34 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:25
35 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:33
36 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
37 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:44
38 José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:50
39 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
40 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
41 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ
42 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
43 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
44 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:00
45 Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:10
46 Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:02:18
47 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:02:25
48 Ben Swift (GBr) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
49 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo
50 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:02:54
51 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Bahrain-Merida
52 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Team Sky 0:03:20
53 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ
54 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
55 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:03:31
56 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-Scott
57 Cameron Meyer (Aus) UniSA-Australia
58 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:03:36
59 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:58
60 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
61 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:04:05
62 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky
63 Manuele Mori (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
64 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:04:14
65 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:05:00
66 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:05:12
67 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 0:05:56
68 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
69 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:05:58
70 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
71 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
72 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:06:28
73 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Sunweb
74 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:06:35
75 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
76 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
77 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
78 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:06:37
79 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
80 Angel Vicioso Arcos (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
81 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:41
82 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:47
83 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:49
84 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:06:58
85 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky 0:07:05
86 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott
87 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott
88 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:07:20
89 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:07:31
90 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:07:41
91 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team
92 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:08:05
93 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ
94 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:08:10
95 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
96 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 0:08:52
97 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:08:57
98 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac
99 Thomas Scully (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac
100 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:09:37
101 Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:10:22
102 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors
103 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain-Merida
104 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ
105 Alex Howes (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
106 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:11:25
107 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:12:24
108 Roger Kluge (Ger) Orica-Scott
109 Samuel Jenner (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:13:41
110 Callum Scotson (Aus) UniSA-Australia
111 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky
112 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
113 Marko Kump (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi
114 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:14:48
115 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:15:19
116 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:16:06
117 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
118 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
119 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal
120 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb
121 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
122 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:18:26
123 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
124 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
125 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Movistar Team
126 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team
127 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
128 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) BMC Racing Team
129 Michal Kolár (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
130 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
131 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team
DNF James Shaw (Aus) Lotto Soudal

General classification after Stage 5 :
1 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team 18:00:21
2 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-Scott 0:00:48
3 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 0:00:51
4 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:54
5 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:00:59
6 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:01:02
7 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal
8 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
9 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
10 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:01:06
11 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky
12 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:07
13 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:15
14 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:18
15 Michael Storer (Aus) UniSA-Australia
16 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:01:19
17 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:23
18 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:25
19 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 0:01:29
20 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:38
21 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:44
22 Ondrej Cink (Cze) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:45
23 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:03
24 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:02:04
25 Jai Hindley (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:02:08
26 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:12
27 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:16
28 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:20
29 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:24
30 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:25
31 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:02:36
32 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:45
33 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:49
34 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:54
35 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 0:03:12
36 José Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:15
37 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin
38 Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors 0:03:45
39 Ben Swift (GBr) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:04:16
40 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:23
41 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:04:43
42 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:04:46
43 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:04:48
44 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-Scott
45 Víctor de la Parte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:57
46 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:05:04
47 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:05:34
48 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
49 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:06:00
50 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:05
51 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:44
52 Cameron Meyer (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:06:45
53 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 0:07:07
54 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:07:27
55 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:07:28
56 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:07:31
57 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:01
58 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:08:03
59 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:08:04
60 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 0:08:08
61 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:08:14
62 Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0:08:24
63 Manuele Mori (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:08:36
64 Francois Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:09:15
65 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:09:22
66 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:09:30
67 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:09:49
68 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:10:01
69 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:10:11
70 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:10:13
71 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 0:10:20
72 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:10:31
73 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:10:48
74 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:11:08
75 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Bahrain-Merida 0:11:53
76 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:11:55
77 Angel Vicioso Arcos (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 0:11:59
78 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:12:10
79 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:12:16
80 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ 0:12:21
81 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 0:12:43
82 Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col) Team Sky 0:13:08
83 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:33
84 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:14:10
85 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:14:20
86 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:14:57
87 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:15:08
88 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Team Sky 0:15:11
89 Samuel Jenner (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:15:54
90 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:16:23
91 Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors 0:16:43
92 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:17:05
93 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:17:15
94 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:17:23
95 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:17:59
96 Alex Howes (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 0:20:28
97 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:20:37
98 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky 0:20:46
99 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:21:11
100 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:21:24
101 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain-Merida 0:21:58
102 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ 0:22:43
103 Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:22:45
104 Thomas Scully (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:23:37
105 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:24:02
106 Roger Kluge (Ger) Orica-Scott 0:24:19
107 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 0:24:39
108 Callum Scotson (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:24:46
109 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:25:01
110 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:25:42
111 Marko Kump (Slo) Team UAE Abu Dhabi 0:25:43
112 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ 0:26:19
113 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:26:43
114 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Movistar Team 0:27:13
115 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac 0:27:49
116 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
117 Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:28:09
118 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:28:14
119 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 0:28:42
120 Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data 0:28:59
121 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:29:23
122 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 0:30:22
123 Michal Kolár (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:30:24
124 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:31:25
125 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:34:22
126 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:35:33
127 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:35:34
128 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) BMC Racing Team 0:35:36
129 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:35:56
130 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:38:33
131 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:46:29