2025 Santos Tour Down Under
(World Tour), Australia

25th edition: January 17 - January 26, 2025
Men's Stage 4, January 24

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Friday, January 24: Stage 4, Glenelg - Victor Harbor, 157.2 km

Stage 4 map & profile | Stage 4 photos

Bryan Coquard wins stage four.

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Weather at the finish city of Victor Harbor at 11:35 AM, local time: 70F, partly cloudy, with the wind from the south at 10 mph. No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage 4 report.

France’s Bryan Coquard claimed the Santos Tour Down Under Hahn Men’s stage 4 with a brilliant tactical last kilometre to beat Phil Bauhaus and Jhonatan Narvaez in a sprint finish at the Esplanade, Victor Harbor on Friday.

Coquard’s victory saw Javier Romo Oliver hold onto the Santos ochre leader’s jersey as the Hahn stage 4 Glenelg to Victor Harbor belonged to the sprint kings.

Romo Oliver is four seconds clear of his biggest GC threat Narvaez.  

“Very happy to win, it’s my best chance to win here and it’s a perfect day,” Coquard said. “I love this country and at the start of the season I started good. I used my (track) experience to do a good sprint from about 300m, it’s perfect.”

With Coquard claiming his second Santos Tour Down Under stage after winning at Willunga in 2023, Javier Romo Oliver held onto the Santo’s ochre leader’s jersey.

The Spaniard is 10 seconds clear of Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates -XRG) with the Think! Road Safety stage 5 McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill looming to be the most critical to General Classification contenders.

The Hahn stage 4 Glenelg to Victor Harbor was expected to be calculated and tactical - and it was.

Race director Stuart O' Grady is about to wave the start flag...

An early breakaway led by Jayco AlUla’s Mauro Schmid powering over the Snapper Point, Aldinga finish line saw the Swiss rider dominate TV air time for at least two hours before the worked hard to bring back the breakaway as Victor Harbor approached.

Schmid won the Ziptrak intermediate sprint #1 bonus ahead of Belgian Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step) and Italy’s Giosue Epis (Akrea – B&B Hotels) which at that point of the race didn’t bother the sprint kings nor the general classification contenders including Santos leader Romo Oliver.

The race then settled into a predictable pattern.

However, as the second efex King of the Mountain was approaching at Nettle Hill, 21.3 km before the Esplanade, the teams started making moves to position either their best sprinter and overall contender. 

The gap closed in the Inman Valley to less than a minute about 27.7km from Victor Harbor as Romo Oliver’s Movistar team were chasing down the breakaway. 

Romo Oliver at that stage of the race was 1 min 05 sec behind the breakaway with Movistar teammate, Eritrea’s Natnael Tesfazion chasing the then stage leaders.

Tesfazion was second on the general classification at the 2024 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and put his rivals on the peloton on notice. 

Complete results:

Stage 4 photos

Laurence Pithie was relegated from 4th to 72nd.

157.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.094 km/hr

1	Bryan Coquard	Cofidis	3hr 55min 15sec
2	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
3	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
4	Liam Walsh	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
5	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
6	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
7	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
8	Tim Torn Teutenberg	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
9	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
10	Dorian Godon	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Lewis Askey	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
12	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
13	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
15	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
16	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
17	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
18	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
19	Francesco Busatto	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
20	Matthew Brennan	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
21	Fabio Van den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
22	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
23	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
24	Carlos Canal	Movistar Team	s.t.
25	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
26	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	Antoine Huby	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
28	Andrea Raccagni Noviero	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
29	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
30	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
31	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
34	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
35	Alberto Bettiol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
36	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
37	Rudy Porter	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
38	Gal Glivar	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
39	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
41	Javier Romo	Movistar Team	s.t.
42	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
43	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
44	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
45	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
46	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
47	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
48	Fergus Browning	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
49	Natnael Tesfazion	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Lucas Hamilton	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
51	Zac Marriage	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
52	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
53	Chris Harper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
54	Andrea Bagioli	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
55	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
56	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
57	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
58	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
59	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
60	Alessandro Verre	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
61	Lucas Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
62	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
63	Damien Howson	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
64	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
65	Paul Lapeira	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
66	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
67	Pablo Torres	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
68	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
69	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
70	Afonso Eulalio	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
71	Cristian Rodriguez	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
72	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
73	Andrea Vendrame	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 18sec
74	Nicola Conci	XDS Astana Team	0:43
75	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
76	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:32
77	Oliver Bleddyn	ARA Australian Cycling Team	2:32
78	Cameron Scott	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
79	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
80	Matthew Walls	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
81	Clément Davy	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
82	Patrick Eddy	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
83	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
84	Roman Ermakov	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Jan Maas	Cofidis	s.t.
87	Nolann Mahoudo	Cofidis	s.t.
88	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
89	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
90	Giosue Epis	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
91	Martin Tjøtta	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
92	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
93	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
94	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
95	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
96	Loe van Belle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
97	Jesus Herrada	Cofidis	s.t.
98	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
99	Alexis Renard	Cofidis	s.t.
100	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
101	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
102	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
104	Mathijs Paasschens	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
105	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
106	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
107	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
108	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
109	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
110	Gijs Leemreize	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
111	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
112	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
113	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:39
114	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	3:38
115	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	5:07
116	Diego Pescador	Movistar Team	s.t.
117	Donavan Grondin	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:29
118	Mathias Sunekær Norsgaard	Movistar Team	7:08
119	Eddy Le Huitouze	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
120	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
121	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
122	Yuhi Todome	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
123	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
124	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
125	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
126	Campbell Stewart	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
127	Julius Johansen	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
128	Simon Dehairs	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
129	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
130	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
131	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
132	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
133	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
134	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
135	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	8:15
136	Julien Vermote	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

Classification leaders:

• Stage winner: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis)
• Santos Ochre Leader’s jersey: Javier Romo Oliver (Movistar)
• Sprint jersey: Sam Welsford (Red Bull – BORA - Hansgrohe)
• King of the Mountain jersey: Fergus Browning (ARA Australia)
• Young Rider jersey: Albert Withen Philipsen (Lidl-Trek)
• Most Competitive Rider: Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla)
• Winning Team: Lidl-Trek

584.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.281 km/hr

1	Javier Romo	Movistar Team	14hr 9min 6sec
2	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates XRG	@ 4sec
3	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	0:10
4	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:12
6	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	0:15
7	Albert Withen Philipsen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
8	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
9	Rémy Rochas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
10	Chris Harper	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
11	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
12	Andrea Bagioli	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
14	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
15	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
16	Lucas Plapp	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
17	Afonso Eulalio	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
18	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:25
19	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	0:30
20	Zac Marriage	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
21	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	0:32
22	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	0:35
23	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
24	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
25	Rudy Porter	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
27	Pablo Torres	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
28	Bjoern Koerdt	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
29	Matthew Brennan	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:06
30	Lewis Askey	Groupama-FDJ	1:12
31	Carlos Canal	Movistar Team	s.t.
32	Natnael Tesfazion	Movistar Team	s.t.
33	Lukas Nerurkar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
34	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
35	Jordan Labrosse	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
36	Paul Lapeira	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Gal Glivar	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
38	Menno Huising	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
39	Robert Stannard	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
40	Cristian Rodriguez	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
41	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
42	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
43	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
44	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
45	Henok Mulubrhan	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
46	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	1:26
47	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
48	Dries De Pooter	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
49	Fabio Van den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
50	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	1:29
51	Henri Uhlig	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:38
52	Tijmen Graat	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
53	Antoine Huby	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
54	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	2:47
55	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	3:44
56	Martin Tjøtta	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
57	Gijs Leemreize	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
58	Markel Beloki	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
59	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:51
61	Jesus Herrada	Cofidis	3:58
62	Fergus Browning	ARA Australian Cycling Team	4:23
63	Alessandro Verre	Arkea-B&B Hotels	4:33
64	Dorian Godon	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
65	Francesco Busatto	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
66	Lucas Hamilton	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
67	Damien Howson	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
68	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
69	Alberto Bettiol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
70	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:10
71	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
72	Paul Ourselin	Cofidis	s.t.
73	Tim Torn Teutenberg	Lidl-Trek	6:00
74	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
75	Laurence Pithie	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
76	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
77	Andrea Vendrame	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	6:18
78	Diego Pescador	Movistar Team	6:19
79	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	6:42
80	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	7:05
81	Loe van Belle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
82	Roman Ermakov	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
83	Bryan Coquard	Cofidis	7:41
84	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	7:55
85	Matthew Walls	Groupama-FDJ	8:28
86	Alexis Renard	Cofidis	8:32
87	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
88	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
89	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates XRG	8:38
90	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	9:22
91	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	9:50
92	Clément Davy	Groupama-FDJ	10:27
93	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
94	Mathijs Paasschens	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
95	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
96	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	11:41
97	Nicola Conci	XDS Astana Team	12:03
98	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	12:44
99	Andrea Raccagni Noviero	Soudal Quick-Step	12:50
100	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
101	Louis Rouland	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
102	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	12:51
103	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	12:57
104	Yuhi Todome	EF Education-EasyPost	14:26
105	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	15:02
106	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	15:03
107	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar Team	s.t.
108	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Wanty	15:16
109	Giosue Epis	Arkea-B&B Hotels	15:19
110	Nolann Mahoudo	Cofidis	15:22
111	Oliver Bleddyn	ARA Australian Cycling Team	s.t.
112	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
113	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
114	Patrick Eddy	Team Picnic PostNL	15:47
115	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	16:09
116	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	16:25
117	Cameron Scott	ARA Australian Cycling Team	17:30
118	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	19:15
119	Donavan Grondin	Arkea-B&B Hotels	19:19
120	Jan Maas	Cofidis	19:34
121	Campbell Stewart	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:58
122	Mathias Sunekær Norsgaard	Movistar Team	s.t.
123	Julius Johansen	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
124	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates XRG	s.t.
125	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	20:40
126	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	21:01
127	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	22:41
128	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	22:59
129	Liam Walsh	ARA Australian Cycling Team	23:27
130	Simon Dehairs	Alpecin-Deceuninck	24:10
131	Eddy Le Huitouze	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
132	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
133	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
134	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
135	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
136	Julien Vermote	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	25:17

 

Stage 4 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

2024 Tour Down Under winner Stephen Williams signs in.

Quentin Pacher

A brave trio try to make good their escape.

Following them the peloton zooms by with the ocean behind them.

A quiet road with no spectators

Looks like a nice day for a bike race.

A break zooms by a sign warning of a hazard we don't have in Oregon.

Here they come...

The sprint

Bryan Coquard wins stage 4.

Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) is second and Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates) is third.

Stage winner Bryan Coquard just after finishing the stage.

Race leader Javier Romo just after finishing the stage.

Stage winner Bryan Coquard

Mauro Schmid was judged the day's most competitive rider.

Sprint classification leader Sam Welsford

Best young rider Albert Withen Philipsen

GC leader Javier Romo will start stage five in orange (ochre, actually).

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map & profile