German sprinter Phil Bauhaus has received stage one of many Tour Down Beneath at Tanunda within the Barossa Valley.
Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) held off Australian dash ace Caleb Ewan (Nationwide Group) to take out the 149.9km stage on Wednesday, in unusually gentle circumstances for January.
Fellow Australian Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla) completed third and in addition picked up time bonuses within the intermediate sprints as he hunts the general title.
A crash with 1km left within the high-speed end break up the bunch.
Robert Gesink (Jumbo-Visma) was the worst off when a number of riders crashed at 24km to go, with the Dutch rider hitting his head closely on the highway.
His staff later introduced he had withdrawn from the race.
French rider Nans Peters (Ag2r) launched a solo assault early within the stage and the peloton was glad to let him go.
He was caught because the tempo ramped up for the second intermediate dash, at 97.8km.
Simply as that occurred, a crash in the back of the peloton took out a number of riders together with Austrian Herman Pernsteiner (Bahrain Victorious) and Dutchman Sjoerd Bax (UAE Group Emirates), whose jersey was shredded on the again.
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Matthews was runner-up within the second dash behind New Zealand’s Corbin Robust (Israel Premier Tech), that means the Australian star picked up two bonus seconds.
Within the 22 editions of the tour, eight of them have been determined by three seconds or much less, so bonus seconds are at all times very important.
New Zealand rider Patrick Bevin (Group DSM) pulled out of the tour on Wednesday after he crashed throughout Saturday’s road race.
– AAP
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