2018 Santos Tour Down Under (World Tour), Australia

Stage 2, Wednesday, January 17, 2018

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Wednesday, January 17: Stage 2, Unley - Stirling, 148.6 km

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Caleb Ewan wins the second stage. Sirotti photo

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Mitchelton-SCOTT has conquered Stirling with Caleb Ewan claiming Stage 2 ahead of teammate Daryl Impey. BORA-hansgrohe riders Jay McCarthy and Peter Sagan finished third and fourth respectively.

With former Santos Ochre Leader’s Jersey-wearer Andre Greipel finishing further down the order, the result means that Ewan streaks to the top of the Santos general, southaustralia.com sprint and #seesouthaustralia Young Rider classifications heading into tomorrow’s Big Screen Video Stage 3 from Glenelg to Victor Harbor.

The scorching finish from the Mitchelton-SCOTT duo capped a day where the peloton bade its time, while a lone warrior pushed ahead through the Adelaide Hills.

That man was young Spaniard Jaime Castrillo (Movistar), who held a consistent three-minute gap to the peloton after the breakaway cleared the final southaustralia.com intermediate sprint in Mylor.

It reminiscent of the performance shown by Australian Will Clarke (EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale) in Tuesday’s opening stage.

Clarke wasn’t far from the action, forming an early four-man breakway as the peloton commenced racing at Walkley Heights with Tuesday counterparts Nic Dlamini (Dimension Data), Scott Bowden (UniSA-Australia) and Castrillo.

Dlamini again cemented his Subaru King of the Mountain ownership with maximum points up North East Road in Tea Tree Gully. The South African then faded away, where Clarke, Castrillo and Bowden diced for southaustralia.com intermediate sprint points in Oakbank and Mylor – Clarke winning both battles.

Castrillo took the mantle of the stage’s lone road warrior from Clarke as the two Australians faded from the front.

Maintaining a three-minute lead heading into the final series of circuits between Aldgate, Mylor and Stirling, the Spaniard began to wilt with 42km to the finish, as the peloton began to kick into gear. But he pressed on for another 20kms before eventually being absorbed by the main group inside the final twenty.

With temperatures clicking over 34 in Unley for the neutral start, the race was a near-copy of Tuesday’s first stage, with a breakaway forging ahead while the peloton waited back for its final attack. But the peloton was welcomed back to Stirling with strong crowds along the roadside through Adelaide’s northern suburbs and into the north-eastern foothills.

The men burning up the road in the breakaway were no doubt the same ones burning under their jerseys, with temperatures at nearby Mount Lofty reaching 32 degrees by race’s end.

Weather: At the finish city of Stirling, Australia at 3:00 PM local time. 26C (79F), fair, with the wind from the East at 18 km/hr (11 mph)

Complete Results:

1	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	4hr 3min 55sec
2	IMPEY Daryl	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
3	MCCARTHY Jay	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
6	VIVIANI Elia	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
7	IZAGIRRE Gorka	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
8	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
9	SANCHEZ Luis Leon	Astana	s.t.
10	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
11	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
12	ROUX Anthony	FDJ	s.t.
13	ULISSI Diego	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
14	MORENO Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
15	DENNIS Rohan	BMC	s.t.
16	ROE Timothy	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
17	CONSONNI Simone	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
18	IZAGIRRE Ion	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
19	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
20	GESINK Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
21	DEVENYNS Dries	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
22	PORTE Richie	BMC	s.t.
23	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
24	GUERREIRO Ruben	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
25	BERNAL Egan Arley	Sky	s.t.
26	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
27	OOMEN Sam	Team Sunweb	s.t.
28	VALGREN Michael	Astana	s.t.
29	PREIDLER Georg	FDJ	s.t.
30	MAS Enric	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
31	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
32	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
33	BENNETT George	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
34	EARLE Nathan	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
35	CHÉREL Mickaël	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
36	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
37	CANTY Brendan	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
38	BAK Lars Ytting	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
39	RESTREPO Jhonatan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
40	TEUNISSEN Mike	Team Sunweb	s.t.
41	CAPECCHI Eros	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
42	EG Niklas	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
43	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
44	DOULL Owain	Sky	s.t.
45	GASTAUER Ben	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
46	DIDIER Laurent	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
47	O'CONNOR Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
48	MORTON Lachlan	Dimension Data	s.t.
49	PUCCIO Salvatore	Sky	@ 11sec
50	DE VREESE Laurens	Astana	0:13
51	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
52	CLARKE William	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
53	ZAKHAROV Artyom	Astana	0:16
54	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:27
55	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	0:32
56	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
57	BEPPU Fumiyuki	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
58	GERRANS Simon	BMC	s.t.
59	BOHLI Tom	BMC	s.t.
60	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
61	OLIVEIRA Nelson	Movistar	s.t.
62	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	0:40
63	OLIVIER Daan	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
64	DE KORT Koen	Trek-Segafredo	0:50
65	MACHADO Tiago	Katusha-Alpecin	0:54
66	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	s.t.
67	LEEZER Tom	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:58
68	VON HOFF Steele	UniSA-Australia	@ 1min 3sec
69	CLARKE Simon	EF Education First-Drapac	1:04
70	BICO Nuno	Movistar	s.t.
71	BATTAGLIN Enrico	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:13
72	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	1:15
73	HAYMAN Mathew	Mitchelton-Scott	1:42
74	BAUER Jack	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
75	DEMPSTER Zakkari	UniSA-Australia	1:46
76	MARCATO Marco	UAE-Team Emirates	1:49
77	BONO Matteo	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
78	SCULLY Thomas	EF Education First-Drapac	2:09
79	WYSS Danilo	BMC	2:18
80	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	2:43
81	MORKOV Michael	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
82	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	2:46
83	ARASHIRO Yukiya	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
84	LAMMERTINK Maurits	Katusha-Alpecin	3:03
85	HOWSON Damien	Mitchelton-Scott	3:21
86	EDMONDSON Alexander	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
87	GONÇALVES José	Katusha-Alpecin	3:26
88	HAGA Chad	Team Sunweb	3:28
89	DE GENDT Thomas	Lotto-Soudal	3:46
90	KOCHETKOV Pavel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
91	MONTAGUTI Matteo	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
92	PETERS Nans	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
93	GATTO Oscar	Astana	s.t.
94	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	5:15
95	PORTER Alexander	UniSA-Australia	5:37
96	MINALI Riccardo	Astana	s.t.
97	KENNAUGH Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	5:51
98	STORER Michael	Team Sunweb	6:01
99	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
100	KORSAETH Truls	Astana	s.t.
101	LAWLESS Christopher	Sky	7:21
102	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	s.t.
103	SABATINI Fabio	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
104	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
105	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
106	DENZ Nico	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
107	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	8:31
108	SIEBERG Marcel	Lotto-Soudal	9:55
109	WAGNER Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
110	DUCHESNE Antoine	FDJ	s.t.
111	CASTRILLO Jaime	Movistar	s.t.
112	SELIG Rüdiger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	DLAMINI Nickolas	Dimension Data	s.t.
114	SÉNÉCHAL Florian	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
115	LADAGNOUS Matthieu	FDJ	s.t.
116	DEBUSSCHERE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
117	PEDERSEN Mads	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
118	OWEN Logan	EF Education First-Drapac	11:09
119	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
120	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	14:49
121	FRAME Alex	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
122	BOARO Manuele	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
123	MORABITO Steve	FDJ	s.t.
124	BOWDEN Scott	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
125	BENNETT Sam	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
126	FERRARI Roberto	UAE-Team Emirates	19:26
127	NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas	Bahrain-Merida	24:11
128	CIMOLAI Davide	FDJ	s.t.
129	WELSFORD Sam	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
130	DIBBEN Jonathan	Sky	s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

1	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	7hr 54min 0sec
2	IMPEY Daryl	Mitchelton-Scott	@ 10sec
3	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	0:12
4	MCCARTHY Jay	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	0:15
6	RESTREPO Jhonatan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
7	VIVIANI Elia	Quick-Step Floors	0:16
8	CONSONNI Simone	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
9	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
10	ROUX Anthony	FDJ	s.t.
11	ULISSI Diego	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
12	GESINK Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
13	OOMEN Sam	Team Sunweb	s.t.
14	BENNETT George	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
15	PREIDLER Georg	FDJ	s.t.
16	SANCHEZ Luis Leon	Astana	s.t.
17	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
18	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
19	IZAGIRRE Ion	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
20	CHÉREL Mickaël	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
21	BERNAL Egan Arley	Sky	s.t.
22	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
23	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
24	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
25	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
26	PORTE Richie	BMC	s.t.
27	IZAGIRRE Gorka	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
28	GUERREIRO Ruben	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
29	EARLE Nathan	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
30	CANTY Brendan	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
31	DEVENYNS Dries	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
32	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
33	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
34	DENNIS Rohan	BMC	s.t.
35	EG Niklas	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
36	BAK Lars Ytting	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
37	MORENO Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
38	VALGREN Michael	Astana	s.t.
39	MAS Enric	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
40	ROE Timothy	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
41	O'CONNOR Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
42	MORTON Lachlan	Dimension Data	s.t.
43	DIDIER Laurent	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
44	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
45	GASTAUER Ben	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
46	DOULL Owain	Sky	s.t.
47	CAPECCHI Eros	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
48	CLARKE William	EF Education First-Drapac	0:17
49	PUCCIO Salvatore	Sky	0:27
50	DE VREESE Laurens	Astana	0:29
51	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
52	ZAKHAROV Artyom	Astana	0:32
53	TEUNISSEN Mike	Team Sunweb	s.t.
54	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:43
55	BEPPU Fumiyuki	Trek-Segafredo	0:48
56	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
57	BOHLI Tom	BMC	s.t.
58	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
59	GERRANS Simon	BMC	s.t.
60	OLIVEIRA Nelson	Movistar	s.t.
61	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	s.t.
62	OLIVIER Daan	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:56
63	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
64	DE KORT Koen	Trek-Segafredo	1:06
65	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	1:10
66	MACHADO Tiago	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
67	LEEZER Tom	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:14
68	VON HOFF Steele	UniSA-Australia	1:19
69	CLARKE Simon	EF Education First-Drapac	1:20
70	BICO Nuno	Movistar	s.t.
71	BATTAGLIN Enrico	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:29
72	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	1:59
73	DEMPSTER Zakkari	UniSA-Australia	2:02
74	MARCATO Marco	UAE-Team Emirates	2:05
75	BONO Matteo	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
76	HAYMAN Mathew	Mitchelton-Scott	2:16
77	SCULLY Thomas	EF Education First-Drapac	2:25
78	WYSS Danilo	BMC	2:34
79	BAUER Jack	Mitchelton-Scott	2:53
80	MORKOV Michael	Quick-Step Floors	2:59
81	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	3:02
82	ARASHIRO Yukiya	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
83	LAMMERTINK Maurits	Katusha-Alpecin	3:19
84	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	3:23
85	EDMONDSON Alexander	Mitchelton-Scott	3:37
86	GONÇALVES José	Katusha-Alpecin	3:42
87	HOWSON Damien	Mitchelton-Scott	3:55
88	MONTAGUTI Matteo	Ag2r-La Mondiale	4:02
89	PETERS Nans	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
90	KOCHETKOV Pavel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
91	DE GENDT Thomas	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
92	GATTO Oscar	Astana	s.t.
93	HAGA Chad	Team Sunweb	4:10
94	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	5:31
95	MINALI Riccardo	Astana	5:53
96	PORTER Alexander	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
97	KENNAUGH Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	6:07
98	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First-Drapac	6:17
99	KORSAETH Truls	Astana	s.t.
100	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	7:27
101	LAWLESS Christopher	Sky	7:37
102	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
103	SABATINI Fabio	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
104	DENZ Nico	Ag2r-La Mondiale	s.t.
105	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	8:01
106	STORER Michael	Team Sunweb	8:05
107	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	8:47
108	DLAMINI Nickolas	Dimension Data	10:07
109	CASTRILLO Jaime	Movistar	10:08
110	DUCHESNE Antoine	FDJ	10:11
111	SELIG Rüdiger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
112	PEDERSEN Mads	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
113	SIEBERG Marcel	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
114	DEBUSSCHERE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
115	LADAGNOUS Matthieu	FDJ	s.t.
116	SÉNÉCHAL Florian	Quick-Step Floors	11:06
117	OWEN Logan	EF Education First-Drapac	11:25
118	WAGNER Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	12:24
119	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	13:22
120	BOWDEN Scott	UniSA-Australia	15:02
121	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	15:05
122	MORABITO Steve	FDJ	s.t.
123	BOARO Manuele	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
124	FRAME Alex	Trek-Segafredo	15:33
125	BENNETT Sam	Bora-hansgrohe	18:41
126	FERRARI Roberto	UAE-Team Emirates	19:42
127	NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas	Bahrain-Merida	24:27
128	WELSFORD Sam	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
129	DIBBEN Jonathan	Sky	s.t.
130	CIMOLAI Davide	FDJ	24:51

Stage 2 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

OK, another cute baby kangaroo picture. Here's Peter Sagan before the race start.

Overnight race leader André Greipel rides to the start line.

Lotto-Soudal works to protect their team leader, André Greipel.

The day's break: Jaime Castrillo, Will Clarke & Scott Bowden

Bahrain-Merida

FDJ spent some time at the front.

Caleb Ewan drives for the line.

The stage and the GC lead are now Ewan's.

Teammates congratulate Ewan after his win.

Caleb Ewan will start stage three in the leader's jersey.

Stage 2 map:

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