After an extended, sizzling and quiet day on the bike it got here all the way down to the quick males in Tanunda for stage 1 of the Tour Down Beneath 2026 with Tobias Lund Andresen (Decathlon-CMA CGM) surprising the largest names of Sam Welsford (Ineos Grenadiers) and Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) to take the win.
It was an ideal leadout by Tord Gudmestad for Lund Andresen after Ineos Grenadiers tousled their leadout for Welsford. Brennan and Welsford got here up very late to attempt to get by the Danish rider, but it surely wasn’t to be and Lund Andresen held them off.
“This feels superb, I can not keep in mind the final time I felt like this. The brand new crew, the bike is so quick, my teammates did so effectively,” mentioned an over the moon Lund Andresen.
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“I believe you must be somewhat bit silly to be a sprinter however I believe it went very well. I believe I’ll give tomorrow a bit simpler on the corkscrew. It’s all the time superb to put on a pacesetter’s jersey, particularly in a WorldTour race.”
Nonetheless, after that was completed and dusted and final 12 months’s winner Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Crew Emirates-XRG) took his customary three bonus seconds a brand new break fashioned and that was the race set for the following 100km with the three leaders not contesting any of the KOM or intermediate sprints. Nevertheless it got here all the way down to the anticipated dash in Tanunda.
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