2010 Tour Down Under – Stage 1 Brief Results (Updated)

HTC-Columbia’s Andre Greipel has repeated his performance of the last two years, winning the first stage and earning the ‘ochre’ leader’s jersey of the Santos Tour Down Under. Greipel finished off the work of his teammates to win in a bunch sprint at the end of the 141km stage from Clare to Tanunda in South Australia.

“It’s very nice to start the season this way,” said a happy Greipel after the stage. ‘We took control of the race and my teammates did a very good job to get me to the finish in good position.”

“Starting with Grabschy [Bert Grabsch] who did a lot of work to bring the break back during the race and finishing with the rest of the team who set me up for the sprint at the end, it was a very good day,” he added.

“At seven kilometers to go we started to build up for the finish which was a little early so it wasn’t until three kilometers to go that we really started. Matt Goss had a broken spoke so was one of the first in the lead out rather than the last and Bernie [Eisel] kept me out of trouble at the end. Liquigas started the sprint and I waited until the last moment to come around.”

“Tomorrow is another flat stage and could be another sprint,” he added, “but after that we have a few hard stages which will be harder to control. However we have a strong team and we will try our best.”

UNISA-Australia’s Martin Roe, who was part of a breakaway that dominated the race, won the Hindmarsh Most Aggressive Rider Škoda King of the Mountain Jersey. BMC Racing’s Martin Kohler, also part of the breakaway, took the Jayco Sprint Jersey and the Cycle Instead Young Rider jersey.

Lance Armstrong and Cadel Evans both finished with the pack and held onto their 46th and 50th places, respectively.

Results:

1	Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia	3:15:30
2	Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team RadioShack
3	Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
4	Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
5	Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Sky
6	Baden Cooke (Aus) Team Saxo Bank
7	Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank
8	Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katyusha
9	Jose Rojas (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
10	Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Astana
11	René Mandri (Est) Ag2r-La Mondiale
12	George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team
13	Robbie Hunter (RSA) Garmin-Transitions
14	Nikolas Maes (Bel) Quick Step
15	Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
16	Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Footon Servetto
17	Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram
18	Martin Elmiger (Swi) Ag2r-La Mondiale
19	Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-La Mondiale
20	Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Milram
21	Ivan Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
22	Arthur Vichot (Fra) Française Des Jeux
23	Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
24	Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Astana
25	Christopher Sutton (Aus) Team Sky
26	Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Katyusha
27	Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana
28	Michael Matthews (Aus) Team UniSA-Australia
29	Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Astana
30	Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank
31	Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
32	Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank
33	Anthony Roux (Fra) Française Des Jeux
34	Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step
35	Cameron Meyer (Aus) Garmin-Transitions
36	Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
37	Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
38	Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
39	Christian Meier (Can) Garmin-Transitions
40	Frank Hoj (Den) Team Saxo Bank
41	Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step
42	Thomas Frei (Swi) BMC Racing Team
43	Perget Mathieu (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
44	Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
45	Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank
46	Lance Armstrong (USA) Team RadioShack
47	Jose Alberto Benitez Roman (Spa) Footon Servetto
48	Mathew Hayman (Aus) Team Sky
49	Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank
50	Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team

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