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Santos Tour Down Under 2026 Race Thread (lemmy.world)

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It's the 2026 Santos Tour Down Under kicking of the WT-season :)

Stages

20/01 Tuesday Prologue | Adelaide - Adelaide 3.6
21/01 Wednesday Stage 1 | Tanunda - Tanunda 120.6
22/01 Thursday Stage 2 | Norwood - Uraidla 148.1
23/01 Friday Stage 3 | Henley Beach - Nairne 140.8
24/01 Saturday Stage 4 | Brighton - Willunga Hill 176
25/01 Sunday Stage 5 | Stirling - Stirling 169.8

Top Competitors according to PCS

VINE Jay
BRENNAN Matthew
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan
STRONG Corbin
ANDRESEN Tobias Lund
YATES Adam
PRODHOMME Nicolas
VELASCO Simone
BUITRAGO Santiago
SCHMID Mauro

Enjoy!

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[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Stage 5:

With 95 km to go in the Tour Down Under, Jay Vine is brought to the ground by a bleeding kangaroo!

He could restart and join the peloton again. The peloton slew down so that the crashed and delayed riders could come back easily. As a result, the gap of our traditional 3-men km-0 breakaway (which are actually 4 today, as an extra rider managed to join the first 3 when the breakaway formed) rose close to 4 minutes.

However there are now only 3 UAE riders left on the race...

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

32 km to go: Plapp, then Novak (Movistar), drop from the breakaway; while one Astana attacks from the peloton.

25 km: as those 3 are caught up, one Australian attacks from the peloton.

21 km: Buitrago attacks from the peloton, joined by 2 Movistar, it ends up building a group of 5, reduced to 4 as the last breakaway survivor drops.

6 km: their gap had reached 30 seconds but started to go down as they lost 1 Movistar.

4 km: Yates and Vine pull the peloton (why?).

0 km: another sprint, the 4^th^ in 5 stages... NB: Andresen (Decathlon) was on the podium of each of those sprints, he really deserves his Points jersey!