Tour Down Under 2018 – Stage 3 [FULL STAGE]

January 18, 2018

Tour Down Under 2018 – Stage 3 – Glenelg – Victor Harbor : 120,5 km

The 2018 Tour Down Under is a road cycling stage race, that is taking place between 16 and 21 January 2018 in South Australia. It is the 20th edition of the Tour Down Under and the first race of the 2018 UCI World Tour.

Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) won stage 3 at the Santos Tour Down Under with a late burst of speed that pushed him past overall race leader Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-Scott), who settled for third. Team Sunweb’s Phil Bauhaus was second.

Ewan’s team took control in the final kilometres and set the race leader up well for a second consecutive win, but as he appeared to hesitate in the closing 200 metres Viviani sailed past for the win and Bauhaus stopped up second. The win is Viviani’s first of 2018 and his first for Quick-Step since moving to the Belgian team from Team Sky in the off-season.

“It’s the fourth sprint we do, and it’s not easy to come in January in good condition, so I think I never win in the early season like that,” Viviani said. “That’s a good thing. I feel really, really lucky to be here and to take this win.”

The Italian said he beat the day’s heat, which soared past 40 degrees, by drinking a lot and staying as fresh as possible for the finale.

“I just tried to be in good position,” Viviani said after the stage. “The guys did another perfect job. The feeling was good with the team. I have an amazing team. I really thank all of my mates.”

Viviani can also thank Ewan, who admitted he botched the finale badly after his teammates set him up so well. Commentators speculated that Ewan saw a gap behind himself and lead-out man Alexander Edmondson and Ewan eased up to let his domestique take the win, but Ewan said it was just a simple mistake of starting his sprint too late.

“I’m pretty disappointed actually,” Ewan said. “My team gave me an absolutely perfect lead-out, but I really stuffed it up the end. “It was a bit of a head wind and I didn’t want to go too early. I waited a little bit too long, and Elia got the jump on me. He was too quick to bring him back.

“I think in hindsight with that finish you are better off coming from behind as I did last year. But like I said, I cannot fault my team. They were absolutely perfect. They did exactly what I asked them to do, and it was my stuff up in the end.”

The stage from Glenelg to Victor Harbor was supposed to be 146.km long and include three 13km circuits around Victor Harbor. But forecasts for high heat caused organisers to remove two of the finishing circuit laps and shorten the stage to 120.5km.

After a 7km neutral roll out, two riders escaped the bunch. The names will be familiar to people following the race, as KOM leader Nicholas Dlamini (Dimension Data) and Scott Bowden (UniSA-Australia) each made the move for the third-consecutive day.

With the heat in play, the peloton was confident in letting the gap go out, and the duo quickly had an advantage that approached six minutes. Dlamini took the maximum points on the first KOM 38km into the day, but then dropped off the pace with more than 50km to go.

Bowden continued on solo, taking top points in the intermediate sprints at 61.6km and 88.3km, leaving the GC contenders to fight for the remaining bonus seconds up for grabs. Bowden’s day off the front ended just inside 20km to go.

With all the escapees scooped up, the race reshuffled slightly at the front, and Katusha-Alpecin’s Tiago Machado took advantage to sneak away. The Portuguese rider got little reaction from the field, and he built a gap of 17 seconds over the ensuing kilometres before the sprinters’ teams got serious and brought him back with 8km to go.

From there the battle for position intensified, with Mitchelton-Scott eventually taking control and lining things up for Ewan, only to be disappointed.

Results :
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 3:04:40
2 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb
3 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
4 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
6 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
7 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
8 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia
9 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
10 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
11 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
12 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
13 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
14 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
15 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
16 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
17 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
18 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin
19 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
20 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin
21 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
22 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo
23 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
24 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
25 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
26 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
27 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo
28 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
29 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors
30 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia
31 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
32 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
33 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
34 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
35 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
36 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky
37 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
38 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
39 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
40 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team
41 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
42 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
43 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
44 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo
45 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
46 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
47 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team
48 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
49 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team
50 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia
51 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
52 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team
53 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin
54 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky
55 Rubén Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team
56 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
57 Georg Preidler (Aut) Groupama-FDJ
58 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
59 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
60 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
61 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
62 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Movistar Team
63 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
64 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo
65 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Dimension Data
66 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
67 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
68 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
69 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky
70 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida
71 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
72 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia
73 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team
74 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
75 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
76 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
77 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data
78 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
79 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
80 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team
81 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
82 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
83 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
84 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
85 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team
86 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
87 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
88 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
89 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:24
90 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:26
91 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia
92 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
93 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
94 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo
95 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Groupama-FDJ
96 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
97 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
98 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
99 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:31
100 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
101 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:34
102 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Bora-Hansgrohe
103 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:38
104 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:44
105 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
106 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:48
107 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
108 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
109 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:54
110 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:00:56
111 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:01:02
112 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:04
113 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
114 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Groupama-FDJ
115 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
116 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:01:29
117 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
118 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 0:02:00
119 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:17
120 Jaime Castrillo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:22
121 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
122 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:30
123 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:03:37
124 Scott Bowden (Aus) UniSA-Australia
125 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida
126 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
127 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:04:54
128 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team 0:05:20
129 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky 0:06:34
DNS Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-FDJ

General Classification after Stage 3 :
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 10:58:36
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:10
3 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:14
4 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:15
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:16
6 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:17
7 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:19
8 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:20
9 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
10 Anthony Roux (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
11 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
12 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
13 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo
14 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
15 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
16 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Spa) Movistar Team
17 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
18 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky
19 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
20 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
21 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
22 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo
23 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
24 Georg Preidler (Aut) Groupama-FDJ
25 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
26 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
27 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team
28 Rubén Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team
29 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
30 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
31 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Dimension Data
32 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia
33 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team
34 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
35 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team
36 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
37 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
38 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo
39 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
40 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
41 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
42 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia
43 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
44 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
45 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data
46 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
47 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky
48 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:00:31
49 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:33
50 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:36
51 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:47
52 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:52
53 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
54 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
55 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team
56 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
57 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
58 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:00
59 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team
60 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:02
61 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:10
62 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:14
63 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:18
64 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:01:23
65 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:01:24
66 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team
67 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:01:29
68 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:33
69 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:01:54
70 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:02:06
71 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
72 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:09
73 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:35
74 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:02:38
75 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:02:51
76 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:02:55
77 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:02:58
78 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors 0:03:03
79 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:06
80 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
81 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin 0:03:23
82 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:27
83 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:03:41
84 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:06
85 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
86 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
87 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:04:26
88 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:05:10
89 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:05:57
90 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 0:06:14
91 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:06:16
92 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:06:21
93 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team
94 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:06:23
95 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team 0:06:34
96 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:06:39
97 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:45
98 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:07:31
99 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 0:07:41
100 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky
101 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:07:43
102 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky 0:08:05
103 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:07
104 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:08:12
105 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:08:53
106 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:09:38
107 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin 0:09:39
108 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:10:15
109 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
110 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
111 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
112 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data 0:10:34
113 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Groupama-FDJ 0:10:41
114 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:10:59
115 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:11:54
116 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:12:23
117 Jaime Castrillo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:12:34
118 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:12:54
119 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:14:30
120 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:15:03
121 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:15:33
122 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo 0:16:11
123 Scott Bowden (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:18:38
124 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:21:01
125 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:22:08
126 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Groupama-FDJ 0:25:59
127 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida 0:28:08
128 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia
129 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky 0:31:05