2023 Tour Down Under Results from BikeRaceInfo

Friday, January 20: Stage 3, Norwood - Campbelltown, 116.8 km

Pello Bilbao wins stage 3.

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Weather at the finish city of Campbelltown at 12:30 PM, local time: 22C (72F), cloudy, with the wind from the southeast at 11 km/hr (7 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage three report.

Pello Bilbao’s super cool downhill bike handling skills handed the Spaniard a debut Santos Tour Down Under stage win on Friday.

Bahrain Victorious’ Giro D’Italia stage winner beat Australia’s hot GC favourite Jay Vine (UAE Emirates) and Vuelta a Espana champion Simon Yatas (Jayco AlULa) to the Maryvale Road, Athelstone finish line in the Stage 3 Norwood to Campbelltown.

“We really came in a good mood to this race,’’ Bilbao, 32, said. “(Team sports director) Neil Stephens was super enthusiastic about this race it’s been six months preparing for his home race.

"In the end, we came here early, on January 4, to train and to adapt to the heat and the time zone and to check all the stages.”

With Bilbao claiming his first stage win at the Australian WorldTour race, Vine became the third ochre jersey leader after South Australia’s Rohan Dennis was forced to concede the GC a day after Italian Alberto Bettilol cramped up before the Victor Harbor finish line where he threw his bidon in disgust.

Dennis had a mechanical close to Kersbrook and was forced to change his bike.

Dennis is currently 1min 25sec behind Vine with two stages to go.

Bilbao is just 15 seconds off pole position while Yates is sitting third, 16 seconds adrift of Vine, the reigning Australian time trial champion.

After leaving the picturesque The Parade, Norwood the race didn’t get off to a frenetic start.

The first attack arrived when EF Education-Easypost's Mikkel Honore was chasing Fabio Felline from Astana Qazakstan.

The pair didn’t pose a threat to the GC contenders until the second efex King of the Mountain where the favourites were positioning themselves for the Corkscrew Road summit.

In a bizarre incident, Astana Qazakstan teammates Gianni Moscon and Leonardo Basso crashed into each other just before the second efex king of the mountain at Checker Hill. Moscon abandoned the race with what appeared to be a serious injury to his upper left arm.

Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas from INEOS Grenadiers went to the front of the peloton before Vine decided to take control at Kangaroo Creek reservoir before the final KOM.

Dennis was still at the back end of the main peloton at the bottom of Corkscrew Road.

The showdown to the Maryvale Road, Athlestone finish:

Efex King of the Mountain No. 1- Ashton 9.6km: Average gradient 4.8 per cent.

Mikkel Honore from EF Education-Easy Post claimed the maximum points ahead of Fabio Felline from Astana Qazakstan.

The pair opened a 2min 13sec gap before Ineos Grenadiers’ Luke Plapp came in third and Tim van Dijke from Jumbo Visma came in fourth.

At that stage, the virtual KOM was still headed by Jay Vine from UAE Emirates.

Felline claimed the first Ziptrak sprint 1 at Lobethal at 29km followed by Honore and Australia’s Kaden Groves from Alpelcin-Deceuninck.

Felline also claimed the second sprint while Honore and Groves stood firm. Felline at that point of the race owned the points classification jersey.

Efex King of the Mountain Kersbrook 82.2km – Average gradient 9.4 per cent

Honore was first atop the summit as the peloton closed in on Felline, Jai Hindley from Bora-hansgrohe came in third at Checker Hill.

Honore at that point of the race was the virtual KOM before the Corkscrew Road was expected to rip the race apart.

Vuelta a Espana winner Simon Yates from Jayco AlUla was fourth as Felline was caught by the peloton.

Efex King of the Mountain, Montacute, Corkscrew Road – Average gradient 9.2 percent

This is the summit which cracked the race.

Jay Vine was just too good and far too strong along a climb which had decimated some of the best WorldTour riders on the planet.

Simon Yates from Jayco AlULa and Pello Bilbao Bahrain Victorious followed the Australian’s wheel all the way to the summit before the huge descent to Maryvale Road, Athelstone.

Complete results:

Stage 3 photos

116.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.67 km/hr

1	Pello Bilbao	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	2hr 48min 10sec
2	Simon Yates	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	s.t.
3	Jay Vine	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
4	Michael Matthews	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	@ 28sec
5	Sven Erik Bystrom	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
6	Natnael Tesfazion	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
7	Antonio Tiberi	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
8	Milan Vader	JUMBO-VISMA	s.t.
9	Ben O'Connor	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
10	Ethan Hayter	INEOS GRENADIERS	s.t.
11	Gorka Izagirre	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
12	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
13	Christopher Hamilton	TEAM DSM	s.t.
14	Sebastian Berwick	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	s.t.
15	George Bennett	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
16	Lucas Hamilton	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	s.t.
17	Victor Lafay	COFIDIS	s.t.
18	Rudy Molard	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
19	Jai Hindley	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
20	Marc Hirschi	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
21	Michael Storer	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
22	Mauro Schmid	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	+32''
23	Mattia Cattaneo	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
24	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS GRENADIERS	s.t.
25	Luis Leon Sanchez	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	s.t.
26	Tony Gallopin	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
27	Bryan Coquard	COFIDIS	s.t.
28	Dries Devenyns	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
29	Matthew Dinham	TEAM DSM	s.t.
30	Nikias Arndt	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+48''
31	Kaden Groves	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
32	Paul Penhoet	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
33	Dion Smith	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
34	Hugo Page	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
35	Asbjorn Hellemose	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
36	Alex Baudin	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
37	Alessandro Verre	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
38	Marius Mayrhofer	TEAM DSM	s.t.
39	Giovanni Aleotti	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
40	Robert Stannard	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
41	Elie Gesbert	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
42	Derek Gee	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	s.t.
43	Luis Guillermo Mas	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
44	Hermann Pernsteiner	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+51''
45	Finn Fisher-Black	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
46	Reuben Thompson	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+58''
47	Rohan Dennis	JUMBO-VISMA	+1'24''
48	Miles Scotson	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
49	Mathis Le Berre	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
50	Leo Hayter	INEOS GRENADIERS	s.t.
51	Dorian Godon	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
52	Michael Gogl	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
53	Kevin Ledanois	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
54	Nans Peters	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+1'46''
55	Francois Bidard	COFIDIS	s.t.
56	Ivan Romeo Abad	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
57	Ewen Costiou	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
58	Jasha Dimitri Sutterlin	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+2'06''
59	Jonas Rutsch	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	s.t.
60	Romain Combaud	TEAM DSM	s.t.
61	Sean Quinn	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+2'08''
62	Imanol Erviti	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
63	Johan Jacobs	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
64	Andre Rodrigues De Carvalho	COFIDIS	s.t.
65	Lucas Plapp	INEOS GRENADIERS	+2'19''
66	Corbin Strong	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+3'15''
67	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+3'29''
68	Jens Keukeleire	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	s.t.
69	Lorenzo Germani	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
70	Michael Vink	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	+3'53''
71	Alessandro Covi	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
72	Hugo Hofstetter	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
73	Boy Van Poppel	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
74	Martijn Tusveld	TEAM DSM	s.t.
75	Samuel Gaze	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
76	Manuele Boaro	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	s.t.
77	Jos Van Emden	JUMBO-VISMA	s.t.
78	Alberto Bettiol	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	s.t.
79	Paul Lapeira	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
80	Damien Touze	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+4'33''
81	Stan Van Tricht	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
82	Michael Schar	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
83	Jannik Steimle	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	+5'00''
84	Tim Van Dijke	JUMBO-VISMA	s.t.
85	Timo Roosen	JUMBO-VISMA	s.t.
86	Martin Svrcek	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
87	Julius Johansen	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
88	Jensen Plowright	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
89	Sergio Samitier	MOVISTAR TEAM	+5'15''
90	Lukasz Wisniowski	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+5'16''
91	Thomas Scully	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	s.t.
92	Alexis Renard	COFIDIS	s.t.
93	Marco Haller	BORA-HANSGROHE	+5'55''
94	Laurence Pithie	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
95	Luis-Joe Luhrs	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
96	Lukasz Owsian	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	s.t.
97	Mikkel Honore	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+6'21''
98	Kim Heiduk	INEOS GRENADIERS	+6'40''
99	Emils Liepins	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
100	Michael Hepburn	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+6'43''
101	Marc Brustenga	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
102	Luke Durbridge	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	s.t.
103	Daryl Impey	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	s.t.
104	Simon Clarke	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	s.t.
105	Lennard Hofstede	JUMBO-VISMA	+7'23''
106	Tim Naberman	TEAM DSM	s.t.
107	Liam Walsh	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	+7'33''
108	Geraint Thomas	INEOS GRENADIERS	s.t.
109	Senne Leysen	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
110	Phil Bauhaus	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	s.t.
111	Filippo Baroncini	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
112	Jarrad Drizners	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	s.t.
113	Campbell Stewart	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	s.t.
114	Oscar Riesebeek	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	s.t.
115	Kamil Michal Gradek	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	s.t.
116	Ben Swift	INEOS GRENADIERS	s.t.
117	Zachary Marriage	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	s.t.
118	Sjoerd Bax	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
119	Gerben Thijssen	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
120	Caleb Ewan	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	s.t.
121	Fabio Felline	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	s.t.
122	Davide Cimolai	COFIDIS	s.t.
123	Cameron Scott	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+10'57''
124	Taco Van Der Hoorn	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+11'30''
125	Christopher Froome	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+11'53''
126	Martin Laas	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	s.t.
127	Leonardo Basso	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	s.t.
128	Shane Archbold	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
129	Taj Jones	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	s.t.
130	Harrison Wood	COFIDIS	+11'56''
DNF	Gianni Moscon	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM

GC after stage 3:

GC leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
Points classification leader: Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla)
Mountains classification leader: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
Best Young Rider: Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers)
Teams classification leader: UAE Team Emirates

427 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.48 km/hr

1	Jay Vine	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	10hr 32min 50sec
2	Pello Bilbao	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	@ 15sec
3	Simon Yates	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+16''
4	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS GRENADIERS	+45''
5	Mauro Schmid	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	+46''
6	Ethan Hayter	INEOS GRENADIERS	+50''
7	Sven Erik Bystrom	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+54''
8	Antonio Tiberi	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+58''
9	Ben O'Connor	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+1'00''
10	Gorka Izagirre	MOVISTAR TEAM	+1'01''
11	Marc Hirschi	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
12	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
13	Kaden Groves	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+1'02''
14	Dries Devenyns	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
15	Milan Vader	JUMBO-VISMA	+1'03''
16	Hugo Page	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	s.t.
17	Natnael Tesfazion	TREK-SEGAFREDO	s.t.
18	Rudy Molard	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+1'04''
19	Victor Lafay	COFIDIS	s.t.
20	Sebastian Berwick	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+1'05''
21	Marius Mayrhofer	TEAM DSM	+1'06''
22	Mattia Cattaneo	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
23	Tony Gallopin	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+1'07''
24	Nikias Arndt	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+1'08''
25	George Bennett	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
26	Derek Gee	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+1'11''
27	Bryan Coquard	COFIDIS	s.t.
28	Jai Hindley	BORA-HANSGROHE	s.t.
29	Luis Leon Sanchez	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+1'17''
30	Christopher Hamilton	TEAM DSM	+1'18''
31	Michael Storer	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+1'22''
32	Robert Stannard	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+1'23''
33	Rohan Dennis	JUMBO-VISMA	+1'25''
34	Giovanni Aleotti	BORA-HANSGROHE	+1'32''
35	Paul Penhoet	GROUPAMA-FDJ	s.t.
36	Asbjorn Hellemose	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+1'34''
37	Elie Gesbert	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+1'39''
38	Reuben Thompson	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+1'44''
39	Miles Scotson	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+1'45''
40	Alex Baudin	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
41	Michael Gogl	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+1'50''
42	Dorian Godon	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+1'52''
43	Leo Hayter	INEOS GRENADIERS	+1'53''
44	Michael Matthews	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+2'38''
45	Francois Bidard	COFIDIS	+2'39''
46	Lucas Plapp	INEOS GRENADIERS	+2'44''
47	Nans Peters	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	s.t.
48	Matthew Dinham	TEAM DSM	+3'02''
49	Lucas Hamilton	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+3'07''
50	Corbin Strong	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+3'30''
51	Alessandro Verre	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+3'32''
52	Kevin Ledanois	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+3'46''
53	Lorenzo Germani	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+3'52''
54	Finn Fisher-Black	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	+4'07''
55	Ewen Costiou	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+4'28''
56	Hermann Pernsteiner	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	s.t.
57	Ivan Romeo Abad	MOVISTAR TEAM	+4'32''
58	Jasha Dimitri Sutterlin	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+4'44''
59	Imanol Erviti	MOVISTAR TEAM	+4'57''
60	Jonas Rutsch	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	s.t.
61	Alessandro Covi	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	+5'04''
62	Damien Touze	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+5'27''
63	Alberto Bettiol	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+5'59''
64	Samuel Gaze	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+6'11''
65	Stan Van Tricht	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	s.t.
66	Michael Vink	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	+6'17''
67	Paul Lapeira	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+6'27''
68	Marco Haller	BORA-HANSGROHE	+6'29''
69	Jens Keukeleire	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+6'33''
70	Boy Van Poppel	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+6'59''
71	Julius Johansen	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+7'17''
72	Michael Schar	AG2R CITROEN TEAM	+7'21''
73	Timo Roosen	JUMBO-VISMA	+7'32''
74	Emils Liepins	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+7'36''
75	Sean Quinn	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+7'40''
76	Romain Combaud	TEAM DSM	+7'47''
77	Martin Svrcek	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	+7'56''
78	Tim Van Dijke	JUMBO-VISMA	+8'01''
79	Caleb Ewan	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	+8'21''
80	Lennard Hofstede	JUMBO-VISMA	+8'27''
81	Laurence Pithie	GROUPAMA-FDJ	+8'31''
82	Dion Smith	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+8'45''
83	Lukasz Owsian	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+8'50''
84	Luis Guillermo Mas	MOVISTAR TEAM	+8'58''
85	Luis-Joe Luhrs	BORA-HANSGROHE	+9'01''
86	Marc Brustenga	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+9'05''
87	Michael Hepburn	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+9'12''
88	Daryl Impey	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+9'25''
89	Mikkel Honore	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+9'42''
90	Mathis Le Berre	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+9'43''
91	Filippo Baroncini	TREK-SEGAFREDO	+10'07''
92	Liam Walsh	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	+10'11''
93	Sjoerd Bax	UAE TEAM EMIRATES	s.t.
94	Fabio Felline	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+10'16''
95	Johan Jacobs	MOVISTAR TEAM	s.t.
96	Ben Swift	INEOS GRENADIERS	+10'19''
97	Andre Rodrigues De Carvalho	COFIDIS	+10'23''
98	Tim Naberman	TEAM DSM	s.t.
99	Campbell Stewart	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+10'25''
100	Phil Bauhaus	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+10'37''
101	Oscar Riesebeek	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+11'17''
102	Geraint Thomas	INEOS GRENADIERS	+11'45''
103	Jos Van Emden	JUMBO-VISMA	+11'52''
104	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+11'57''
105	Manuele Boaro	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+12'01''
106	Martijn Tusveld	TEAM DSM	+12'03''
107	Hugo Hofstetter	TEAM ARKEA-SAMSIC	+12'09''
108	Jannik Steimle	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP	+12'47''
109	Jensen Plowright	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+13'12''
110	Alexis Renard	COFIDIS	+14'10''
111	Sergio Samitier	MOVISTAR TEAM	+14'22''
112	Taj Jones	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+14'30''
113	Shane Archbold	BORA-HANSGROHE	+14'35''
114	Kim Heiduk	INEOS GRENADIERS	+14'45''
115	Harrison Wood	COFIDIS	s.t.
116	Simon Clarke	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+14'51''
117	Jarrad Drizners	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	+15'22''
118	Senne Leysen	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK	+15'47''
119	Zachary Marriage	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM	+15'52''
120	Kamil Michal Gradek	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+15'56''
121	Gerben Thijssen	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+16'07''
122	Davide Cimolai	COFIDIS	+16'59''
123	Luke Durbridge	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA	+18'29''
124	Martin Laas	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+20'10''
125	Leonardo Basso	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM	+20'16''
126	Lukasz Wisniowski	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+20'19''
127	Christopher Froome	ISRAEL PREMIER TECH	+20'24''
128	Thomas Scully	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST	+20'39''
129	Taco Van Der Hoorn	INTERMARCHE-CIRCUS-WANTY	+21'36''
130	Cameron Scott	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS	+21'52''