Results Down Under Classic:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Allan Davis	Hollister	1h01'41
2	Daniele Bennati	Team Puma - SAP	s.t.
3	Graeme Brown	Jayco - Red Bull	s.t.
4	Tomas Vaitkus	Cyclevox	s.t.
5	Gerald Ciolek	Team Bianchi	s.t.
6	André Greipel	Team WWE	s.t.
7	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
8	Erik Mohs	Pokerstars.com	s.t.
9	Oscar Gatto	Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa	s.t.
10	Heinrich Haussler	Team Trilux - Falke	s.t.
...
15	Jonathon Clarke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
...
26	Mark Renshaw	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
...
34	William Ford	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
...
56	Simon Clarke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.

Results TdU Stage 1:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Allan Davis	Hollister	3h14'27
2	Sergio Marinengeli	Venchi	s.t.
3	Gerald Ciolek	Bianchi	s.t.
4	Daryl Impey	Jayco - Red Bull	s.t.
5	Mark Cavendish	Proximus	s.t.
6	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
7	Mitch Docker	Cyclevox	s.t.
8	Mathieu Drujon	Focus	s.t.

GC:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Allan Davis	Hollister	3h14'07
2	Sergio Marinengeli	Venchi	+ 8
3	Gerald Ciolek	Bianchi	+ 12
4	Michael Matthews	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
5	Taiji Nishitani	Meiji - Fuji	s.t.
...
11	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	+ 20

Young Rider Classification:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Michael Matthews	Oz Cycling Project	3h14'19
2	Nico Gauer	Emu Export	+ 4
3	Bob Jungels	Focus	+ 6

Young Rider Classification after three stages:

1	Michael Matthews	Oz Cycling Project	9h53'13
2	Scott Thwaites	Cyclevox	+ 6
3	Bob Jungels	Focused Cycling	+ 6
4	Peter Sagan	Team Venchi ProCycling	+ 8
5	Zakkari Dempster	Hollister	+ 8

miggi133 wrote:
Jungels is Luxemburgian not belgian. Sorry but I had to point it out...^^

Oz Cycling Project made it's ProTour-debut in today's TTT in Qatar! Thanks to a last minute wildcard, that was given to the team, Oz's William Ford will have to chance to participate at the race, which he surprisingly won last year. The team's hopes are pinned on Baden Cooke though, as he may have the best chances to hit the Top-10 in a stage. We need some luck, that's for sure, but in Qatar's windy stages, everything seems possible! And the opening TTT went well for The Oz, finishing on 12th place, 19" behind winning team Café de Colombia!

The Tour Down Under is over and Oz Cycling Project's manager T.S. Moha called it an "unsatisfying performance" despite some "glimmer of lights": Michael Matthews proved to be the most combatively rider for The Oz in his home-race. In 6th and final stage, he was in a breakaway for the third time in TdU and managed to take the KoM-jersey by gaining 20 points in total (same as the shared winner Cédric Pineau /Focused Cycling)! A nice achievement for Matthews and the team.

But it was again a stage for a mass-sprint: Allan Davis (Hollister) proved to be in top-shape this year. He took another stage-win and the overall win of Tour Down Under! A great success for the Aussie, who already won the Down Under Classic prior to TdU.. Oz Cycling's Baden Cooke again missed a Top-10-result as 12th today: a disappointing result. We all had expected more after his 6th place in opening stage.

Best-placed Oz in final GC is William Ford as 20th, followed by Jack Bobridge as 21st. Ford was also the 3rd rider in Young Rider-classification (Bobridge 4th).

Final GC:

1	Allan Davis	Hollister	18h13'03
2	Daryl Impey	Jayco - Red Bull	+ 44
3	Enrico Gasparotto	Team Puma - SAP	s.t.
4	Sergio Marinangeli	Team Venchi ProCycling	s.t.
5	Simon Gerrans	Jayco - Red Bull	s.t.
6	Mitch Docker	Cyclevox	+ 52
...
20	William Ford	Oz Cycling Project	+ 1'04
21	Jack Bobridge	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.

KoM

1	Cédric Pineau	Focused Cycling		20
1	Michael Matthews	Oz Cycling Project		20
3	Simon Gerrans	Jayco - Red Bull		16
4	Taiji Nishitani	Meiji - Fuji		16

Young Rider

1	Tosh Van der Sande	UniCredit		18h14'03
2	Peter Sagan	Team Venchi ProCycling		+ 4
3	William Ford	Oz Cycling Project		+ 4
4	Jack Bobridge	Oz Cycling Project		+ 4

SportingNonsense wrote:
Pineau and Matthews shared the KoM jersey - a joint victory

It's still awesome for our team to be part of the first ProTour-race in 2012! We were chanceless in 2nd stage, but today, several Oz-riders showed some decent racing in rainy Qatar: Mark Jamieson was in a first breakaway, that got caught early and last year's winner William Ford (who lost minutes due to a peloton-split on 2nd day) took another chance for a breakaway, together with Flecha and Ratto! The three were chanceless in the end, but at least Ford made the cameras focussing on Oz Cycling, as he was the last out of the three escapees to get caught.. And still not enough for Oz Cycling today: our veteran-sprinter Baden Cooke, who had a struggling Tour Down Under, had a nice sprint against some of the world's best sprinters and finished 6th, beating such prominent names like yesterday's winner Erik Mohs! Cooke's compatriot Matthew Goss (Wikipedia) took the stage-win today.



Results Stage 3:

1	Matthew Goss	Wikipedia	3h00'19
2	Ben Swift	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
3	Óscar Avelino	Webeffect	s.t.
4	Kobe Vanoverschelde	Team B&O	s.t.
5	Sam Bewley	Milka - Vittel	s.t.
6	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.

We're still in Qatar, watching Oz Cycling's ProTour-debut. The last two stages (4th and 5th) brought no more surprising results for our team, but at least William Ford, last year's winner in Qatar, proved his fighting skills and kept attacking on almost every stage so far! He had no success, but he tries all he can and team's manager T.S. Moha is glad to see Ford performing like that.. Baden Cooke couldn't repeat his strong 6th place of 3rd stage and so the best results for Oz Cycling were a 22nd for Ford in 5th and a 27th for Adrian Laidler in 4th stage.

Lewis celebrates the team's first win ever!

What a week for Oz Cycling Project: we had no expectations in both Tour of Qatar and Tour of Wellington, but in the end, the latter was our most succesful race so far! The Tour of Wellington is one of our target-races, but we couldn't sign a rider, who would have been able to compete with the best here. So all we hoped for was a breakaway-success.. and here we go! Oz-riders had been in almost every breakaway in New Zealand and in 4th stage, a tricky hilly circuit, one of our most promising riders finally took a stage-win out of a break! Shaun Lewis, our best climber, but chanceless in Wellington's GC since 2nd stage, set a perfect attack out of the breakaway-group with 6km to go and could defend a small lead until finish. A great day for Oz Cycling, which has been crowned by one of our local-heroes, George Bennett, one day later: he finished 3rd in final stage thanks to a late attack. Overall winner of Wellington-Tour is the German Aleksandar Flügel: he attacked on 2nd and crucial stage up the Admira Hill and could defend his small lead. Congrats!


The crucial moment of this year's Wellington-Tour: Flügel's win in 2nd stage.

The Oz Cycling's ProTour-debut ended as it began: with a breakaway-try by Mark Jamieson. It was again empty-handed, but manager T.S. Moha emphasized that he is satisfied with the team's performance in Qatar. Our best results were the 12th place in opening TTT and a 6th place in mass-sprint for Baden Cooke in 3rd stage. Cooke was also Oz's best-placed in final GC as 45th.


One of many attacks by Oz's riders in the team's ProTour-debut!

A great day for Oz Cycling Project: our captain Baden Cooke made his first podium in 2012! He finished 2nd in Mumbai Cyclothon's first race, beating Proximus' Mark Cavendish in photo-finish! Dominating winner was Daniele Bennati (Puma), who has been the big favourite of this race. "It's great to see Baden finishing 2nd. We always hoped for a decent result here in India. It's important for our ambitions within the Asian Rankings and if Cooke performs like this, we can hope for even more", said teammananger T.S. Moha. Congratulations to Bennati and Team Puma - SAP:



Results:

1	Daniele Bennati	Team Puma - SAP	3h59'19
2	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
3	Mark Cavendish	Proximus - Trek	s.t.
4	Allan Davis	Hollister	s.t.
5	Peter Kennaugh	Rapha Condor - Qhubeka	s.t.

We couldn't repeat yesterday's 2nd, but Baden Cooke again had a nice sprint for 5th place in Mumbai Cyclothon II! Like in Cyclothon I, Bennati managed to win.. It's still a very good result for Oz Cycling, with Simon Clarke finishing 10th, Michael Matthews 16th and Mark Renshaw 22nd.

Results:

1	Daniele Bennati	Team Puma - SAP	2h30'56
2	Anuar Manan	Meiji - Fuji	s.t.
3	Christopher Sutton	Jayco - Red Bull	s.t.
4	Mark Cavendish	Proximus - Trek	s.t.
5	Baden Cooke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.
...
10	Simon Clarke	Oz Cycling Project	s.t.