Tour Down Under 2019 – Stage 5 [LAST 15 KM]

January 19, 2019

Tour Down Under 2019 – Stage 5 – Glenelg – Strathalbyn : 149,5 km

The 2019 Tour Down Under will once again kick off the WorldTour season in Australia. The racing will begin with the People’s Choice Classic on January 13 and the peloton will move straight into the stage race held from January 15 to 20 in and around Adelaide. The climb of Willunga Hill will feature as the climax to the 2019 Tour Down Under, as the Australian UCI WorldTour event eschews its final ‘Champs-Elysées-like’ processional stage in favour of a ‘queen stage’ that should keep things exciting right to the very end. In 2019 last year’s winner Darly Impey (Mitchelton Scott) returns to defend his crown. He will be joined by Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe), Richie Porte (Trek Segafredo) and Rohan Dennis (Bahrain Merida). The race will also represent Caleb Ewan’s first outing as a Lotto Soudal rider after his move from Mitchelton Scott.

Second-placed finisher Jasper Philipsen (UAE Team Emirates) was sensationally promoted to first place at the conclusion of stage 5 at the Tour Down Under in Strathalbyn on Saturday after Lotto Soudal’s Caleb Ewan – who was first across the finish line – was relegated.

The race jury’s ruling meant that Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) was moved up to runner-up on the stage, with Jumbo-Visma’s Danny van Poppel being handed third place.

Overnight race leader Patrick Bevin (CCC Team) crashed heavily with 10km of the stage remaining, but he battled back bravely to hold onto his race lead by seven seconds from Mitchelton-Scott’s Daryl Impey with just one stage to go on Sunday.

The New Zealander’s injuries, however, had to be assessed at hospital to see whether he’d be capable of defending his ochre leader’s jersey on stage 6, and whether he’d even be able to start the stage. But following medical examinations that revealed nothing was broken – and subject to a concussion test on Sunday morning – by Saturday evening Bevin was hoping that he’d be able to continue in the race.

Calm before the storm

The day had begun in significantly calmer fashion when UniSA-Australia duo Ayden Toovey and Jason Lea escaped from the gun on the hunt for king-of-the-mountain points to stretch Lea’s lead in the competition, with the peloton content to let them go.

The pair were joined by AG2R La Mondiale’s Clement Chevrier, and while Toovey dropped back to the bunch before the day’s climb, the Frenchman allowed the Australian to take the maximum points available, but their day out front was soon over as the bunch readied themselves for the first intermediate sprint with 50km of the day’s 149.5km distance covered.

Mitchelton-Scott leading it out for defending champion Daryl Impey as though it was the finish of the stage. Alex Edmondson was the Australian team’s last man before Impey took over, and the youngster tried to keep it going in order to take the points for second place, too.

Edmondson slipped away, however, with Bevin coming through to take second place behind Impey, with Bevin’s CCC teammate Fran Ventoso looking like he had to brake at the last second to ensure that Bevin, and not him, got the two bonus seconds.

It was another second chipped off Bevin’s race lead by Impey to make it six seconds – while the other contenders dropped even further behind – but their positions were reversed 25km later when Bevin took the three-second time bonus for winning the second intermediate sprint with Impey taking the two seconds for second place.

Almost immediately, Groupama-FDJ’s Matthieu Ladagnous launched an attack – just as he had on stage 2 – and was joined by Toovey once more, having seemingly recovered from his earlier breakaway effort.

The two built up a lead approaching four minutes, but it was all over once more with 35km to race once the sprinters’ teams began to come to the front in readiness for the finish.

Soon after the catch, and with crosswinds to contend with at various points on the stage, Team Jumbo-Visma – boasting both George Bennett for the GC and Danny van Poppel for bunch sprints – decided to try to split the race up, and although the move shed a few riders, it wasn’t enough to shake the other GC contenders’ teams.

Crash brings down Bevin

With 10km to go, Bevin went down hard in a crash around halfway down the bunch. Clearly injured, the New Zealander nevertheless remounted and began the long chase back to the bunch, which initially appeared content to wait for the race leader.

However, with the finish fast approaching, there was only so long that the sprinters’ teams were prepared to call a truce, although Bevin nevertheless managed to get back on terms thanks to the combination of both his CCC teammates and a team car.

While Deceuninck-QuickStep led the race into the final few hundred metres in an attempt to get Elia Viviani his second stage win at this year’s race, with Sagan on the Italian champion’s wheel, the true fight was happening just behind them, with Ewan and Philipsen clashing, and Ewan getting the upper hand thanks to using his head.

The Australian then pulled away off Sagan’s wheel with an impressive burst of speed, with Philipsen following in turn to take second place on the line.

Ewan’s joy, however, was short-lived, with Philiposen handed the victory following deliberation by the race judges.

“This is very disappointing,” Ewan said in a press release. “I was so looking forward to my first official victory for Lotto Soudal. After crossing the line, it felt like a massive relief, but the next moment all of that joy disappeared when I heard that I had been relegated.

“During the final kilometres, I was on Peter Sagan’s wheel, but Philipsen tried to take that spot as he tried to push me out of Sagan’s wheel,” he continued. “You are not allowed to take your hands off the handlebars in the sprint, so I used my head to avoid ending up in the barriers. Head movements are of course clearly visible on a helicopter shot, but a lot of former sprinters will confirm that my manoeuvre was not irregular.

“Of course, I have to accept the decision taken by the jury, but I don’t agree with it.”

The race continues with its sixth and final stage on Sunday with a 151.5km stage that includes two climbs of Willunga Hill, with the race finishing at the top after the second ascent.

With two intermediate sprints again offering bonus seconds of three, two and one seconds, and 10, six and four seconds available for the first three finishers of the stage, the race is set to go right down to the wire – whether race leader Bevin is able to start stage 6 or not.

Results :
1 Jasper Phlipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 3:37:00
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
3 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
4 Jens Debesschere (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
6 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain-Merida
7 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb
8 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
9 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
10 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana Pro Team
11 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
12 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
13 Eduard Prades (Spa) Movistar Team
14 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
15 Lluís Mas (Spa) Movistar Team
16 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
17 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team
18 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
19 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
20 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
21 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
22 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb
23 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First Pro Cycling
24 Daniel McClay (GBr) EF Education First Pro Cycling
25 Ryan Mullen (Ire) Trek-Segafredo
26 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
27 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
28 Lars Bak (Den) Dimension Data
29 Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
30 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
31 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ
32 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
33 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
34 Neil Van der Ploeg (Aus) UniSA-Australia
35 Michael Valgren (Den) Dimension Data
36 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
37 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
38 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
39 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
40 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky
41 Nick White (Aus) UniSA-Australia
42 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
43 Patrick Bevin (NZl) CCC Team
44 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin
45 Tom Leezer (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
46 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky
47 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo
48 Héctor Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
49 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
50 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
51 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
52 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) Groupama-FDJ
53 Herman Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida
54 Nans Peter (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
55 Gregor Muhlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
56 Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned) Dimension Data
57 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
58 Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
59 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
60 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky
61 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
62 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) UniSA-Australia
63 William Clarke (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
64 Nic Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
65 Ivo Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
66 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
67 Rafael Valls (Spa) Movistar Team
68 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
69 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
70 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo
71 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky
72 Yukiya Arashiro (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
73 Michael Morkov (Den) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
74 Chris Harper (Aus) UniSA-Australia
75 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team
76 Rubén Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team
77 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
78 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
79 Danil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
80 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
81 Jaime Castrillo (Spa) Movistar Team
82 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) CCC Team
83 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal
84 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:17
85 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:20
86 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma
87 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:24
88 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
89 Nico Denz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
90 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:29
91 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:31
92 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data
93 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Team Sky 0:00:34
94 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:41
95 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
96 Leo Vincent (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:43
97 Dimitrii Strakhov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
98 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:00:46
99 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:00:47
100 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:54
101 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:00:56
102 James Whelan (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:01:00
103 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First Pro Cycling
104 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:04
105 Victor De La Parte (Spa) CCC Team
106 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale
107 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:11
108 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin
109 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:22
110 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling
111 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
112 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
113 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
114 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) CCC Team 0:01:59
115 Adam Blythe (GBr) Lotto Soudal
116 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Team 0:02:14
117 Joey Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team
118 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky
119 Michael Potter (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:03:30
120 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:04:18
121 Lachlan Morton (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:04:33
122 Michael Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team
123 Mat Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:05:40
124 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates
125 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
126 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin
127 Jason Lea (Aus) UniSA-Australia
128 Ayden Toovey (Aus) UniSA-Australia
129 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
130 Lukas Postlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
131 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
DNS Mikkel Honoré (Den) Deceuninck – Quick-Step

General Classification after Stage 5 :
1 Patrick Bevin (NZl) CCC Team 17:00:25
2 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott 0:07:00
3 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:16:00
4 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data 0:26:00
5 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
6 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
7 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
8 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
9 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky
10 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First Pro Cycling
11 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
12 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
13 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky
14 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
15 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
16 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
17 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
18 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
19 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:33:00
20 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:38:00
21 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 0:47:00
22 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
23 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
24 Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned) Dimension Data
25 Gregor Muhlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
26 Herman Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida 0:52:00
27 Lluís Mas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:54:00
28 Eduard Prades (Spa) Movistar Team 0:58:00
29 Michael Valgren (Den) Dimension Data
30 Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
31 Chris Harper (Aus) UniSA-Australia
32 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:01:05
33 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck – Quick-Step
34 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:01:10
35 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:15
36 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:22
37 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:31
38 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:41
39 Dimitrii Strakhov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
40 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:02:05
41 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 0:02:20
42 Lars Bak (Den) Dimension Data 0:02:21
43 Héctor Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:27
44 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:02:47
45 Rafael Valls (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:54
46 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ 0:03:16
47 Yukiya Arashiro (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:26
48 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 0:04:00
49 James Whelan (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:04:45
50 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:51
51 Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:05:06
52 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Team Sky
53 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:58
54 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:06:00
55 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 0:06:27
56 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 0:06:33
57 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:34
58 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 0:07:02
59 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:07:12
60 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:07:21
61 Joey Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team 0:08:09
62 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:08:10
63 Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:08:15
64 Ryan Mullen (Ire) Trek-Segafredo 0:08:28
65 Nick White (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:08:39
66 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:08:56
67 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:09:08
68 Tom Leezer (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:09:25
69 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain-Merida 0:10:36
70 Ayden Toovey (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:11:21
71 Jasper Phlipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 0:11:26
72 Rubén Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:11:52
73 Danil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:12:28
74 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:12:32
75 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 0:12:45
76 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:13:00
77 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:13:08
78 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:13:18
79 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:13:25
80 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
81 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:13:27
82 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:13:49
83 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:13:59
84 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:14:19
85 Lachlan Morton (Aus) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:14:40
86 Mat Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:14:52
87 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:14:55
88 Victor De La Parte (Spa) CCC Team 0:15:01
89 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:15:08
90 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:25
91 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:15:49
92 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) Groupama-FDJ 0:16:06
93 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky 0:16:08
94 Nic Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data 0:16:19
95 Jaime Castrillo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:16:23
96 Leo Vincent (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:16:48
97 Ivo Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:17:00
98 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:17:24
99 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
100 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky 0:17:27
101 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:17:30
102 William Clarke (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:18:32
103 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:18:36
104 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin 0:18:41
105 Nans Peter (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:18:50
106 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:19:07
107 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Team 0:19:14
108 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Sky 0:19:49
109 Jens Debesschere (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 0:19:51
110 Jason Lea (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:19:56
111 Michael Potter (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:20:09
112 Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:20:18
113 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:20:27
114 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:20:29
115 Michael Morkov (Den) Deceuninck – Quick-Step 0:20:34
116 Neil Van der Ploeg (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:20:35
117 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain-Merida 0:20:44
118 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates 0:20:46
119 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) CCC Team 0:21:01
120 Adam Blythe (GBr) Lotto Soudal
121 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 0:21:18
122 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) CCC Team 0:21:28
123 Nico Denz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:21:36
124 Daniel McClay (GBr) EF Education First Pro Cycling 0:22:12
125 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:23:07
126 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:23:10
127 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 0:23:33
128 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:26:54
129 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:26:57
130 Lukas Postlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:27:50
131 Michael Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team 0:34:20