January 19/18 9:33 am - Tour Down Under: Stage 4
Posted by Editoress on 01/19/18
Peter Sagan blitzed his rivals on the downhill run to the finish in Uraidla amid 45-degree temperatures in Adelaide to claim Stage 4 of the Santos Tour Down Under – and the Santos Ochre Leader’s Jersey - while becoming the first reigning world road champion to claim stage honours in the event’s 20-edition history.
Sagan (BORA-hansgrohe) formed part of the lead bunch that reeled in race leader Zak Dempster on the approach to the Subaru King of the Mountain climb atop Norton Summit Road.
Dicing with defending Santos TDU champion Richie Porte on the run through Ashton and on towards the finish at Uraidla, Sagan hovered at the front of the race-leading group as ownership of the front changed hands.
Then on the fast descent to the line, the Sagan made his move.
Taking the wheel of South African Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-SCOTT), it was Sagan accelerating in the final metres to claim his first stage win of the Santos Tour Down Under following his non-points victory in the People’s Choice Classic last Sunday.
Impey took second ahead of former winner Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana), Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) and Sagan’s Australian teammate Jay McCarthy (BORA-hansgrohe).
Sagan will shed the rainbow jersey for the iconic Ochre for tomorrow’s fifth stage from McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill.
While the 27-year-old savoured his win, he affirmed his commitment to race for teammate Jay McCarthy, who is nine seconds behind in third position on the general classifcation.
"It's been a very hard day of racing but maybe not the hottest in my career so far as I've experienced something slightly hotter in California a couple of years ago," Sagan said.
"I already won the opening criterium but it's nice to grab my first stage of the Santos Tour Down Under.
"It's very good for the organisation and very nice for the fans to have a different stage winner every day.
"Tomorrow will be again another story. I'm in the Ochre jersey now but we all know we are racing here for Jay McCarthy.
"It's his home race. He'll have a much harder climb than today to have his say tomorrow."
Antoine Duchesne (FDJ) the only Canadian entry finished 71st, 10:43 behind the winner, and now sits 95th in GC at 21:18 back.
Results
| Stage 4: Norwood to Uraidla, 128.2 km | |
| 1 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-hansgrohe | 3:21:07 |
| 2 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 3 Luis León Sánchez (Esp) Astana Pro Team | |
| 4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 5 Jay McCarthy (Aus) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 6 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 8 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 9 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 10 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 11 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky | |
| 12 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 13 Georg Preidler (Aut) FDJ | |
| 14 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 15 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 16 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 17 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 18 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 19 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 20 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 21 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 22 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb | |
| 23 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| 24 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 25 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 26 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Esp) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 27 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 28 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal | |
| 29 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Team Dimension Data | |
| 30 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 31 Scott Davies (GBr) Team Dimension Data | |
| 32 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 33 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 34 Ben O'Connor (Aus) Team Dimension Data | |
| 35 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb | all s.t. |
| 36 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin | 0:54 |
| 37 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
| 38 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 1:21 |
| 39 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin | 2:19 |
| 40 Marc Soler (Esp) Movistar Team | 2:40 |
| 41 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 3:51 |
| 42 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 3:56 |
| 43 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 44 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 45 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 46 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 47 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team | |
| 48 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo | all s.t. |
| 49 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ | 4:05 |
| 50 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 5:03 |
| 51 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | 6:21 |
| 52 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 53 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 6:38 |
| 54 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 55 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | |
| 56 Danilo Wyss (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 57 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 58 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 59 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Team Dimension Data | all s.t. |
| 60 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 8:01 |
| 61 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 62 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ | 9:00 |
| 63 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | 9:02 |
| 64 Daniel Oss (Ita) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 65 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | |
| 66 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 67 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 68 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team | all s.t. |
| 69 Rubén Fernandez (Esp) Movistar Team | 10:39 |
| 70 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 10:43 |
| 71 Antoine Duchesne (Can) FDJ | |
| 72 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | both s.t. |
| 73 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 10:46 |
| 74 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 11:30 |
| 75 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 76 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data | |
| 77 Jaime Castrillo (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 78 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team | |
| 79 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Esp) Movistar Team | |
| 80 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 81 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 82 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 83 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | |
| 84 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 85 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 86 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 87 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky | |
| 88 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 89 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Team Dimension Data | |
| 90 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 91 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 92 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 93 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | all s.t. |
| 94 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb | 13:21 |
| 95 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida | 14:34 |
| 96 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 97 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo | both s.t. |
| 98 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 14:37 |
| 99 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 100 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 15:18 |
| 101 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal | |
| 102 Scott Bowden (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 103 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | all s.t. |
| 104 Rudiger Selig (Ger) BORA-hansgrohe | 15:25 |
| 105 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 15:26 |
| 106 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 107 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 108 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 109 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) BORA-hansgrohe | all s.t. |
| 110 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team | 16:32 |
| 111 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia | s.t. |
| 112 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky | 17:15 |
| 113 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal | |
| 114 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb | |
| 115 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | |
| 116 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team | |
| 117 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 118 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 119 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal | all s.t. |
| 120 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky | 18:44 |
| 121 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 122 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo | both s.t. |
| 123 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 19:10 |
| 124 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 19:13 |
| 125 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 126 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin | |
| 127 Davide Cimolai (Ita) FDJ | 19:33 |
| 128 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky | OTL |
| DNF Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| GC | |
| 1 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA-hansgrohe | 14:19:49 |
| 2 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-SCOTT | at 0:02 |
| 3 Jay McCarthy (Aus) BORA-hansgrohe | 0:09 |
| 4 Luis León Sánchez (Esp) Astana Pro Team | 0:10 |
| 5 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 0:14 |
| 6 Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 7 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 8 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo | |
| 9 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 10 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Sky | |
| 11 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 12 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Esp) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 13 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 14 Mickael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 15 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 16 Georg Preidler (Aut) FDJ | |
| 17 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb | |
| 18 Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 19 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb | |
| 20 Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 21 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 22 Sam Welsford (Aus) UniSA-Australia | |
| 23 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal | |
| 24 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Team Dimension Data | |
| 25 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Esp) EF Education First-Drapac | |
| 26 Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| 27 Chris Lawless (GBr) Team Sky | |
| 28 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 29 Scott Davies (GBr) Team Dimension Data | |
| 30 Enric Mas (Esp) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 31 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | |
| 32 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | |
| 33 Ben O'Connor (Aus) Team Dimension Data | all s.t. |
| 34 Nathan Haas (Aus) Katusha-Alpecin | 1:05 |
| 35 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 1:18 |
| 36 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal | 1:21 |
| 37 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 1:35 |
| 38 Marc Soler (Esp) Movistar Team | 2:54 |
| 39 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo | 4:10 |
| 40 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ | 4:19 |
| 41 Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 4:37 |
| 42 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo | 4:42 |
| 43 Simon Gerrans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | |
| 44 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale | both s.t. |
| 45 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team | 5:14 |
| 46 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin | 5:36 |
| 47 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 6:52 |
| 48 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida | 6:56 |
| 49 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | s.t. |
| 50 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 7:06 |
| 51 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo | 7:25 |
| 52 Daan Olivier (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 7:32 |
| 53 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 7:34 |
| 54 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team | 8:01 |
| 55 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo | 8:05 |
| 56 Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 8:26 |
| 57 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb | 8:31 |
| 58 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb | 9:06 |
| 59 Danilo Wyss (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 9:10 |
| 60 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale | 9:16 |
| 61 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky | s.t. |
| 62 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb | 9:32 |
| 63 Rubén Fernandez (Esp) Movistar Team | 10:53 |
| 64 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | s.t. |
| 65 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 11:24 |
| 66 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | s.t. |
| 67 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 11:32 |
| 68 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin | 11:43 |
| 69 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Esp) Movistar Team | 11:44 |
| 70 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky | 11:55 |
| 71 Tom Bohli (Sui) BMC Racing Team | 12:16 |
| 72 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team | |
| 73 Daniel Oss (Ita) BORA-hansgrohe | 12:23 |
| 74 Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 12:38 |
| 75 Maarten Wynants (Bel) LottoNL-Jumbo | 12:42 |
| 76 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 13:02 |
| 77 Nathan Earle (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 13:25 |
| 78 Tom Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo | 13:30 |
| 79 Matteo Bono (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 13:59 |
| 80 Thomas Scully (NZl) EF Education First-Drapac | 14:19 |
| 81 Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 14:21 |
| 82 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Quick-Step Floors | 14:27 |
| 83 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale | 15:30 |
| 84 Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
| 85 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | 15:40 |
| 86 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 15:51 |
| 87 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac | 16:58 |
| 88 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team | 17:26 |
| 89 Jacobus Venter (RSA) Team Dimension Data | 18:03 |
| 90 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data | 19:05 |
| 91 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ | 19:09 |
| 92 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb | 19:29 |
| 93 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 20:22 |
| 94 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) BORA-hansgrohe | 21:16 |
| 95 Antoine Duchesne (Can) FDJ | 21:18 |
| 96 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data | 21:58 |
| 97 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 22:14 |
| 98 Alex Porter (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 22:44 |
| 99 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 23:06 |
| 100 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin | 23:13 |
| 101 Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Quick-Step Floors | 23:18 |
| 102 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin | 23:25 |
| 103 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 23:27 |
| 104 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team | 23:30 |
| 105 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-SCOTT | s.t. |
| 106 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors | 23:32 |
| 107 Jaime Castrillo (Esp) Movistar Team | 23:58 |
| 108 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-SCOTT | 24:05 |
| 109 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida | 24:29 |
| 110 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal | 24:40 |
| 111 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky | 25:14 |
| 112 Rudiger Selig (Ger) BORA-hansgrohe | 25:34 |
| 113 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky | 26:19 |
| 114 Robert Wagner (Ger) LottoNL-Jumbo | 27:22 |
| 115 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal | 27:24 |
| 116 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First-Drapac | 27:43 |
| 117 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin | 28:46 |
| 118 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo | 28:53 |
| 119 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) BORA-hansgrohe | 29:50 |
| 120 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal | 30:06 |
| 121 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb | 32:12 |
| 122 Timothy Roe (Aus) UniSA-Australia | 33:50 |
| 123 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo | 34:49 |
| 124 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA-hansgrohe | 38:10 |
| 125 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Bahrain-Merida | 42:36 |
| 126 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo | 43:20 |
| 127 Davide Cimolai (Ita) FDJ | 45:26 |
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