2018 Santos Tour Down Under (World Tour), Australia

Stage 3, Thursday, January 18, 2018

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Thursday, January 18: Stage 3, Glenelg - Victor Harbor, 146.5 120.5 km

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Elia Viviani takes the third stage

Weather at Victor Harbor at 12:30 PM, local time: 40C (104F)! Sunny, wind from the northwest @ 24 km/hr (15mph).

The race: Because of the extreme heat the stage was shortened from 146.5 km to 120.5 km.

Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing:

Elia Viviani has hit back from two top six finishes in the opening stages to claim honours in Victor Harbor in Big Screen Video Stage 3 in what will be a welcome win for the Italian sprinter in his first race for Quick-Step Floors. The Italian stunned Mitchelton-SCOTT's lead pair of Caleb Ewan (wearing the Santos Ochre Leader's Jersey) and Alex Edmondson, who led the peloton for the last kilometre.

But the Santos Ochre Leader’s jersey-wearer Ewan mistimed his run – with some suggestion he may have wanted to give Edmondson a chance at victory instead – affording Viviani the chance to launch his legs like a long-range missile and tear through to claim the line.

German Phil Bauhaus (Sunweb) took second ahead of Ewan, who will continue to wear Ochre at tomorrow's start in Norwood.

It will be a welcome win for Viviani, who tweeted of his back-to-back fourths after Stage 1 on Tuesday (he finished off the podium in Sunday’s People’s Choice Classic).

In a heat-shortened stage, the peloton was clearly in conservation mode as it wound its way from Glenelg to McLaren Vale and up to The Range for a Category 1 climb on Pennys Hill Road at the Range.

Once again it was Nic Dlamini (Team Dimension Data) taking honours from Scott Bowden (UniSA-Australia) at the checkpoint, ensuring he wears the Subaru King of the Mountain jersey for another day.

An exhausted, but elated Viviani praised his Quick-Step teammates for setting his final run for the win. “It was an effort!” Viviani said after the stage. “You need to conserve energy and refresh yourself until, for me, 200m to go and then try to be in a good position.

“The guys did a perfect job… the feeling was good with the team, and I have an amazing team. So thanks to all of my teammates!”

Having practised on the track to charge his legs for the sprint finishes in Adelaide and pushing himself through a strong winter training period, Viviani has claimed the final sprint finish for the event until the Be Safe Be Seen Stage 6 in Adelaide on Sunday.

“It’s the fourth sprint we’ve done, and it’s not easy to come in January and be in good condition,” Viviani said. “I never win like here in the [early] season like that.

“I did a good winter, the feeling with the team is good, and I’m really, really lucky to be here and to take this win.”

South African neo-pro Nic Dlamini continues to secure his place on the podium as leader of the Subaru King of the Mountain classification, having pushed ahead of rival Scott Bowden (UniSA-Australia) in the rise up Pennys Hill Road at The Range.

In doing so, he became the inaugural winner of the Terry Roberts Trophy. Roberts was a core member of the Tour’s original organizational team in 1998 to set up the inaugural race, and was a member of the team until his passing following a short illness in 2017.

With the peloton again managing their pace owing to the extreme heat, the shortened run in Victor Harbor (reduced by approximately 26km – or two circuits of the event) gave the peloton a quicker blast south of Adelaide.

The southaustralia.com intermediate sprints went the way of Dlamini (at Myponga) before Bowden took honours at Inman Valley – well ahead of the pelton and placegetters Nathan Haas (Katusha-Alpecin) and Jay McCarthy (BORA-hansgrohe).

Friday’s Bupa Stage 4 will run full-length, but race organisers confirmed an earlier start to the stage. The mercury is set to break 40 degrees on Friday, prompting the cancellation of the traditional mass-participation ride, the Bupa Challenge Tour presented by The Advertiser.

A 10:30am start in Norwood has been scheduled for the Bupa Stage 4, with the peloton to ride through Gorge Road via Gumeracha, Mount Torrens and Lobethal before swinging back through the gorge for the final Subaru King of the Mountain climb at Norton Summit into Uraidla.

Complete Results:

1	VIVIANI Elia	Quick-Step Floors	3hr 4min 40sec
2	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	s.t.
3	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
4	CONSONNI Simone	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
5	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
6	CLARKE Simon	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
7	EDMONDSON Alexander	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
8	DEMPSTER Zakkari	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
9	DEVENYNS Dries	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
10	MCCARTHY Jay	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	IZAGIRRE Gorka	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
13	GESINK Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
14	SELIG Rüdiger	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
15	PEDERSEN Mads	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
16	SANCHEZ Luis Leon	Astana	s.t.
17	MINALI Riccardo	Astana	s.t.
18	RESTREPO Jhonatan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
19	IMPEY Daryl	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
20	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
21	MARCATO Marco	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
22	GUERREIRO Ruben	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
23	ROUX Anthony	FDJ	s.t.
24	ULISSI Diego	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
25	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
26	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
27	BENNETT George	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
28	IZAGIRRE Ion	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
29	MORKOV Michael	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
30	VON HOFF Steele	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
31	BEPPU Fumiyuki	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
32	BAK Lars Ytting	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
33	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
34	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
35	PUCCIO Salvatore	Sky	s.t.
36	BERNAL Egan Arley	Sky	s.t.
37	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
38	CAPECCHI Eros	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
39	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
40	KORSAETH Truls	Astana	s.t.
41	TEUNISSEN Mike	Team Sunweb	s.t.
42	CANTY Brendan	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
43	MORENO Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
44	DIDIER Laurent	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
45	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
46	CHÉREL Mickaël	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
47	PORTE Richie	BMC	s.t.
48	WYSS Danilo	BMC	s.t.
49	VALGREN Michael	Astana	s.t.
50	EARLE Nathan	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
51	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
52	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
53	LAMMERTINK Maurits	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
54	LAWLESS Christopher	Sky	s.t.
55	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
56	OOMEN Sam	Team Sunweb	s.t.
57	PREIDLER Georg	FDJ	s.t.
58	GERRANS Simon	BMC	s.t.
59	SIEBERG Marcel	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
60	DENNIS Rohan	BMC	s.t.
61	EG Niklas	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
62	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
63	DE KORT Koen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
64	BATTAGLIN Enrico	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
65	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
66	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
67	MAS Enric	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
68	O'CONNOR Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
69	DOULL Owain	Sky	s.t.
70	ARASHIRO Yukiya	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
71	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
72	ROE Timothy	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
73	BOHLI Tom	BMC	s.t.
74	OLIVIER Daan	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
75	MONTAGUTI Matteo	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
76	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
77	MORTON Lachlan	Dimension Data	s.t.
78	GASTAUER Ben	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
79	OLIVEIRA Nelson	Movistar	s.t.
80	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
81	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
82	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
83	LADAGNOUS Matthieu	FDJ	s.t.
84	MACHADO Tiago	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
85	BICO Nuno	Movistar	s.t.
86	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	s.t.
87	KOCHETKOV Pavel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
88	PETERS Nans	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
89	BOARO Manuele	Bahrain-Merida	@ 24sec
90	DENZ Nico	Ag2rLa Mondiale	0:26
91	PORTER Alexander	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
92	DLAMINI Nickolas	Dimension Data	s.t.
93	ZAKHAROV Artyom	Astana	s.t.
94	WAGNER Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
95	DUCHESNE Antoine	FDJ	s.t.
96	CLARKE William	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
97	SCULLY Thomas	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
98	BONO Matteo	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
99	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	0:31
100	SABATINI Fabio	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
101	FRAME Alex	Trek-Segafredo	0:34
102	KENNAUGH Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	HAYMAN Mathew	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
104	DEBUSSCHERE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
105	SÉNÉCHAL Florian	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
106	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	0:48
107	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	s.t.
108	LEEZER Tom	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
109	OWEN Logan	EF Education First-Drapac	0:54
110	DE VREESE Laurens	Astana	0:56
111	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	1:02
112	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	1:04
113	DE GENDT Thomas	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
114	CIMOLAI Davide	FDJ	s.t.
115	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	s.t.
116	STORER Michael	Team Sunweb	1:29
117	BAUER Jack	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
118	HAGA Chad	Team Sunweb	2:00
119	BENNETT Sam	Bora-hansgrohe	2:17
120	CASTRILLO Jaime	Movistar	2:22
121	FERRARI Roberto	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
122	GONÇALVES José	Katusha-Alpecin	2:30
123	WELSFORD Sam	UniSA-Australia	3:37
124	BOWDEN Scott	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
125	NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
126	GATTO Oscar	Astana	s.t.
127	HOWSON Damien	Mitchelton-Scott	4:54
128	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	5:20
129	DIBBEN Jonathan	Sky	6:34

GC after Stage 3:

1	EWAN Caleb	Mitchelton-Scott	10hr 58min 36sec
2	VIVIANI Elia	Quick-Step Floors	@ 10sec
3	IMPEY Daryl	Mitchelton-Scott	0:14
4	MCCARTHY Jay	Bora-hansgrohe	0:15
5	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	0:16
6	HAAS Nathan	Katusha-Alpecin	0:17
7	RESTREPO Jhonatan	Katusha-Alpecin	0:19
8	CONSONNI Simone	UAE-Team Emirates	0:20
9	GESINK Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
10	ROUX Anthony	FDJ	s.t.
11	ULISSI Diego	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
12	SANCHEZ Luis Leon	Astana	s.t.
13	BENNETT George	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
14	COSTA Rui	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
15	IZAGIRRE Ion	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
16	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
17	IZAGIRRE Gorka	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
18	BERNAL Egan Arley	Sky	s.t.
19	DEVENYNS Dries	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
20	OOMEN Sam	Team Sunweb	s.t.
21	CHÉREL Mickaël	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
22	GUERREIRO Ruben	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
23	LATOUR Pierre	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
24	PREIDLER Georg	FDJ	s.t.
25	POZZOVIVO Domenico	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
26	HAMILTON Chris	Team Sunweb	s.t.
27	PORTE Richie	BMC	s.t.
28	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
29	CANTY Brendan	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
30	BAK Lars Ytting	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
31	SLAGTER Tom-Jelte	Dimension Data	s.t.
32	EARLE Nathan	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
33	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
34	MORENO Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
35	VALGREN Michael	Astana	s.t.
36	DENNIS Rohan	BMC	s.t.
37	EG Niklas	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
38	DIDIER Laurent	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
39	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
40	MAS Enric	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
41	CAPECCHI Eros	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
42	ROE Timothy	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
43	O'CONNOR Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
44	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
45	MORTON Lachlan	Dimension Data	s.t.
46	GASTAUER Ben	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
47	DOULL Owain	Sky	s.t.
48	PUCCIO Salvatore	Sky	0:31
49	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	0:33
50	TEUNISSEN Mike	Team Sunweb	0:36
51	CLARKE William	EF Education First-Drapac	0:47
52	BEPPU Fumiyuki	Trek-Segafredo	0:52
53	GERRANS Simon	BMC	s.t.
54	MORI Manuele	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
55	BOHLI Tom	BMC	s.t.
56	VANDENBERGH Stijn	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
57	OLIVEIRA Nelson	Movistar	s.t.
58	OLIVIER Daan	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:00
59	SÜTTERLIN Jasha	Movistar	s.t.
60	ZAKHAROV Artyom	Astana	1:02
61	DE KORT Koen	Trek-Segafredo	1:10
62	MACHADO Tiago	Katusha-Alpecin	1:14
63	WYNANTS Maarten	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:18
64	VON HOFF Steele	UniSA-Australia	1:23
65	CLARKE Simon	EF Education First-Drapac	1:24
66	BICO Nuno	Movistar	s.t.
67	DE VREESE Laurens	Astana	1:29
68	BATTAGLIN Enrico	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:33
69	SCOTSON Miles	BMC	1:54
70	DEMPSTER Zakkari	UniSA-Australia	2:06
71	LEEZER Tom	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
72	MARCATO Marco	UAE-Team Emirates	2:09
73	BONO Matteo	UAE-Team Emirates	2:35
74	WYSS Danilo	BMC	2:38
75	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	2:51
76	SCULLY Thomas	EF Education First-Drapac	2:55
77	HAYMAN Mathew	Mitchelton-Scott	2:58
78	MORKOV Michael	Quick-Step Floors	3:03
79	ARASHIRO Yukiya	Bahrain-Merida	3:06
80	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
81	LAMMERTINK Maurits	Katusha-Alpecin	3:23
82	OSS Daniel	Bora-hansgrohe	3:27
83	EDMONDSON Alexander	Mitchelton-Scott	3:41
84	MONTAGUTI Matteo	Ag2rLa Mondiale	4:06
85	PETERS Nans	Ag2rLa Mondiale	s.t.
86	KOCHETKOV Pavel	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
87	BAUER Jack	Mitchelton-Scott	4:26
88	DE GENDT Thomas	Lotto-Soudal	5:10
89	MINALI Riccardo	Astana	5:57
90	HAGA Chad	Team Sunweb	6:14
91	GONÇALVES José	Katusha-Alpecin	6:16
92	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First-Drapac	6:21
93	KORSAETH Truls	Astana	s.t.
94	PORTER Alexander	UniSA-Australia	6:23
95	BEVIN Patrick	BMC	6:34
96	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	6:39
97	KENNAUGH Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	6:45
98	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	7:31
99	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	7:41
100	LAWLESS Christopher	Sky	s.t.
101	GATTO Oscar	Astana	7:43
102	WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz	Sky	8:05
103	DENZ Nico	Ag2rLa Mondiale	8:07
104	SABATINI Fabio	Quick-Step Floors	8:12
105	HOWSON Damien	Mitchelton-Scott	8:53
106	STORER Michael	Team Sunweb	9:38
107	WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads	Katusha-Alpecin	9:39
108	SELIG Rüdiger	Bora-hansgrohe	10:15
109	PEDERSEN Mads	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
110	SIEBERG Marcel	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
111	LADAGNOUS Matthieu	FDJ	s.t.
112	DLAMINI Nickolas	Dimension Data	10:34
113	DUCHESNE Antoine	FDJ	10:41
114	DEBUSSCHERE Jens	Lotto-Soudal	10:59
115	SÉNÉCHAL Florian	Quick-Step Floors	11:54
116	OWEN Logan	EF Education First-Drapac	12:23
117	CASTRILLO Jaime	Movistar	12:34
118	WAGNER Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	12:54
119	BODNAR Maciej	Bora-hansgrohe	14:30
120	BAUHAUS Phil	Team Sunweb	15:03
121	BOARO Manuele	Bahrain-Merida	15:33
122	FRAME Alex	Trek-Segafredo	16:11
123	BOWDEN Scott	UniSA-Australia	18:38
124	BENNETT Sam	Bora-hansgrohe	21:01
125	FERRARI Roberto	UAE-Team Emirates	22:08
126	CIMOLAI Davide	FDJ	25:59:00
127	NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas	Bahrain-Merida	28:08:00
128	WELSFORD Sam	UniSA-Australia	s.t.
129	DIBBEN Jonathan	Sky	31:05:00

Stage 3 photos by Photoreporter Sirotti:

Race leader Caleb Ewan at the sign-up

Peter Kennaugh

Ruben Guerreiro is ready to race. Note the disc brake.

The peloton races under a broiling sun.

When you see all these riders, bikes and cars it become clear what a huge investment a pro stage race is.

Nicholas Dlamini & Scott Bowden spend some time off the front.

Danilo Wyss picks up some more water.

Here they come!

As they steam for the line Elia Viviani (left) looks to have it.

The stage is Viviani's.

Peter Sagan just after the stage.

Caleb Ewan tries to cool off after a hor day in the saddle.

Stage winner Elia Viviani

Mountains classificaton leader Nicholas Dlamini

Stage 3 map:

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