The final stage. A sprint finish? Or will that climb so close to the finish favour a break?
The 6 man break:
Imhof,
Matteau,
Wohler,
Busche,
Mortenson &
Liu
20 KM to go: Break @ 1'30.
With
Alpina - Avianca and
ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team setting pace the peloton can easily make the gap to the break with the final climb approaching.
10 KM to go: Break @ 1'20.
With the same teams on the front, once we hit the climb, no inroads are made into the break's advantage.
Indeed the gap to the breakaway starts to grow outwards as
Busche sets a real strong tempo. One by one .....
...
Busche drops the rest of the break. He would summit the final climb first, ending any hope of
Wohler taking the KOM jersey here.
Surely it is plain sailing for
Busche. With under 10 KM to go, and a descent all the way to the finish, he has over 1'40 over the peloton.
Matteau is the next over the top, '20 behind, but losing time on the American.
The peloton, pretty much all together, traverse the final climb knowing only minor positions are up for grabs today. This doesn't stop
Haas and
Sarabia attacking. Though to no avail.
One of the stars of this race,
Makino, would also try his luck on the descent as only two riders survive from the break. Again, nothing doing.
Victory for
Busche on the final stage of the Herald Sun Tour. He really showed his prowess on the final hill today, the domestiques of the sprinter teams didn't have an answer. All three pro-conti teams have had a decent outing here, with two taking home a stage victory.
Matteau would be the other breakaway rider to hold off the peloton today, coming home for a respectable second place.
Securing the points jersey, in style, it is a comfortable third place from
Geschke as he wins his second bunch sprint here.
Forero was the closest challenger, but a ways back in the end, as the final hill took its toll on many of the quick men.
Mendes wins the Herald Sun Tour, the GC much unchanged on the final stage.
1 | Matthew Busche | AMEXpc | 2h02'47 |
2 | Antoine Matteau | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 34 |
3 | Simon Geschke | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 1'02 |
4 | Juan Pablo Forero | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
5 | Chan Jae Jang | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
6 | Jose Mendes | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
7 | Ignacio Sarabia | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
8 | Maximillian Schachmann | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
9 | Filipe Cardoso | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
10 | Michael Vingerling | Team TomTom | s.t. |
11 | Sergey Nikolaev | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
12 | Michael Matthews | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
13 | Damion Drapac | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
14 | Marco Guillén | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
15 | Cameron Meyer | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
16 | Tobyn Horton | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
17 | Jose Luis Cano | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
18 | Johim Ariesen | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
19 | Michael Vanderaerden | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
20 | Mark Renshaw | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
21 | Nathan Haas | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
22 | Martin Kohler | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
23 | Alex Wohler | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
24 | Riccardo Zoidl | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
25 | Martin Mortensen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
26 | Kosuke Makino | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
27 | Ciaran Kelly | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
28 | Juan Esteban Arango | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
29 | Marvin Orlando Angarita | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
30 | Michiel Elijzen | Team TomTom | s.t. |
31 | Robert Gavenda | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
32 | Guillaume Boivin | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
33 | Timothy Duggan | Team TomTom | s.t. |
34 | Steven Tronet | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
35 | Graham Briggs | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
36 | Roman Van Uden | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
37 | Alex Meenhorst | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
38 | Michael Olsson | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
39 | Pirmin Lang | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
40 | Gabriel Chavanne | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
41 | Martin Puusepp | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
42 | Carlos Henrique Cancellara | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
43 | Connor McConvey | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
44 | Gert Joeaar | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
45 | Jesús Herrada | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
46 | Diego Antonio Ochoa | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
47 | Matthew Brammeier | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
48 | Joseph Cooper | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
49 | Kin-San Wu | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
50 | Reto Hollenstein | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
51 | Miguel Angel Benito | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
52 | Neil Van der Ploeg | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
53 | Paul Van der Ploeg | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
54 | Marco Haller | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
55 | Christophe Kern | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
56 | William Germán RodrÃguez Parra | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
57 | Adam Semple | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
58 | Aleksei Saramotins | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
59 | Johan Lindgren | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
60 | Marco Brus | Team TomTom | s.t. |
61 | Arturs Ansons | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
62 | Richard Antonio Carapaz | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
63 | Nazar Jumabekov | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | s.t. |
64 | Kevin Barclay | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
65 | Thomas Murray | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
66 | Adrian Laidler | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | s.t. |
67 | Ethan Kimmince | Fletcher - Garneau | s.t. |
68 | Viktor Renäng | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
69 | Cedric Lebris | Team TomTom | s.t. |
70 | Jose Vicente Toribio | Team TomTom | s.t. |
71 | Sergiu Cioban | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
72 | Biao Liu | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
73 | Rüdiger Selig | AMEXpc | s.t. |
74 | Robert Bush | AMEXpc | s.t. |
75 | Murilo Affonso | Alpina - Avianca | s.t. |
76 | Ying Hon Yeung | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
77 | Chun Kai Feng | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
78 | Simon Richardson | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
79 | Matthias Wengelin | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
80 | Bob Schoonbroodt | Team TomTom | s.t. |
81 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
82 | Nathan Earle | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
83 | Nino Schurter | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
84 | Volodymyr Gomenyuk | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 4'00 |
85 | Jean-Lou Paiani | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
86 | Mohamed Harrif Salleh | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
87 | Yu Takenouchi | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
88 | Yannick Stoltz | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
89 | Azizulhasni Awang | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
90 | Alexander Edmondson | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
91 | Claudio Imhof | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
92 | Jonas Koch | AMEXpc | s.t. |
93 | Kenny De Haes | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
94 | Armindo Fonseca | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
95 | Jimmi Sørensen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
96 | Arnaud Godet | AMEXpc | s.t. |
97 | Daniel Klemme | AMEXpc | s.t. |
98 | Mateusz Taciak | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
99 | Benoît Sinner | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
100 | Ed Clancy | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
101 | King Lok Cheung | Compal-Merida | s.t. |
102 | Rasim Reis | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
103 | Bernardo Colex | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
104 | Alexandre Aulas | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
105 | Andriy Orlov | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | s.t. |
106 | Niki Østergaard | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
107 | Ian Stannard | Team ASDA-Savers | s.t. |
108 | Simon Larsen | AMEXpc | s.t. |
109 | Rasmus Sterobo | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
110 | Essa Khalifa | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
111 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
112 | Muhamma Afif Ahmad Zamri | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
113 | Christian Ranneries | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
114 | Vincent Butts | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
115 | Théry Schir | Team Vontobel | s.t. |
116 | Lachlan Norris | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
117 | Guytan Lilholt | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
118 | Dries Beatse | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
119 | Tomasz Zywer | Control Team | s.t. |
120 | Alireza Ashgarzadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. |
121 | Dainius Kairelis | Control Team | s.t. |
122 | Ivor Bruin | Control Team | s.t. |
1 | Jose Mendes | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | 16h00'58 |
2 | Riccardo Zoidl | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 11 |
3 | Ignacio Sarabia | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
4 | Timothy Duggan | Team TomTom | + 19 |
5 | Nathan Haas | Risa - Ergon | + 23 |
6 | Kosuke Makino | Compal-Merida | + 24 |
7 | Michiel Elijzen | Team TomTom | + 33 |
8 | Johan Lindgren | Risa - Ergon | + 46 |
9 | Gert Joeaar | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 47 |
10 | Simon Geschke | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 50 |
11 | Sergey Nikolaev | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 1'03 |
12 | Michael Olsson | Risa - Ergon | + 1'10 |
13 | Martin Kohler | Team Vontobel | + 1'18 |
14 | Martin Puusepp | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 1'24 |
15 | Aleksei Saramotins | Evonik - Signal Iduna | s.t. |
16 | Reto Hollenstein | Team Vontobel | + 1'38 |
17 | Chun Kai Feng | Compal-Merida | + 1'44 |
18 | Connor McConvey | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 1'45 |
19 | Filipe Cardoso | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 1'47 |
20 | Paul Van der Ploeg | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 1'48 |
21 | Neil Van der Ploeg | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 1'55 |
22 | Pirmin Lang | Team Vontobel | + 2'00 |
23 | Christophe Kern | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | s.t. |
24 | Ciaran Kelly | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 2'02 |
25 | Sergiu Cioban | Team Live Nation | s.t. |
26 | Kin-San Wu | Compal-Merida | + 2'03 |
27 | Ying Hon Yeung | Compal-Merida | + 2'04 |
28 | Bob Schoonbroodt | Team TomTom | + 2'07 |
29 | Nazar Jumabekov | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 2'08 |
30 | Nathan Earle | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | s.t. |
31 | Simon Richardson | Team ASDA-Savers | + 2'09 |
32 | Jose Vicente Toribio | Team TomTom | + 2'10 |
33 | Nino Schurter | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 2'19 |
34 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 2'25 |
35 | Marco Brus | Team TomTom | + 2'32 |
36 | Guillaume Boivin | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 2'43 |
37 | Cedric Lebris | Team TomTom | + 2'52 |
38 | Matthias Wengelin | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 3'08 |
39 | Antoine Matteau | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 3'17 |
40 | Ethan Kimmince | Fletcher - Garneau | + 3'18 |
41 | Michael Matthews | Risa - Ergon | + 3'20 |
42 | Maximillian Schachmann | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 3'22 |
43 | Matthew Busche | AMEXpc | + 3'35 |
44 | Tobyn Horton | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 3'38 |
45 | Cameron Meyer | Fletcher - Garneau | + 3'51 |
46 | Viktor Renäng | Team Live Nation | + 3'56 |
47 | Biao Liu | Compal-Merida | + 4'03 |
48 | Adrian Laidler | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 4'15 |
49 | Gabriel Chavanne | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 4'21 |
50 | Juan Pablo Forero | Alpina - Avianca | + 4'24 |
51 | Martin Mortensen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | s.t. |
52 | Roman Van Uden | Fletcher - Garneau | + 4'25 |
53 | Matthew Brammeier | Team ASDA-Savers | + 4'29 |
54 | Jose Luis Cano | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 4'31 |
55 | Alex Wohler | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 4'37 |
56 | Michael Vingerling | Team TomTom | + 4'42 |
57 | Jesús Herrada | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 4'44 |
58 | Arturs Ansons | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 4'45 |
59 | Alex Meenhorst | Team ASDA-Savers | + 4'58 |
60 | Mark Renshaw | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 5'00 |
61 | Kevin Barclay | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 5'01 |
62 | Robert Bush | AMEXpc | s.t. |
63 | Murilo Affonso | Alpina - Avianca | + 5'04 |
64 | Carlos Henrique Cancellara | Alpina - Avianca | + 5'08 |
65 | Rüdiger Selig | AMEXpc | + 5'09 |
66 | Marvin Orlando Angarita | Alpina - Avianca | + 5'11 |
67 | Miguel Angel Benito | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 5'12 |
68 | Diego Antonio Ochoa | Alpina - Avianca | + 5'13 |
69 | Richard Antonio Carapaz | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 5'14 |
70 | Marco Haller | Fletcher - Garneau | + 5'22 |
71 | Chan Jae Jang | Compal-Merida | + 5'27 |
72 | Juan Esteban Arango | Alpina - Avianca | + 5'28 |
73 | Graham Briggs | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 5'30 |
74 | Robert Gavenda | Fletcher - Garneau | + 5'31 |
75 | Marco Guillén | ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team | + 5'34 |
76 | Johim Ariesen | Fletcher - Garneau | + 5'40 |
77 | Michael Vanderaerden | Fletcher - Garneau | + 5'44 |
78 | Ian Stannard | Team ASDA-Savers | + 6'34 |
79 | Yu Takenouchi | Team ASDA-Savers | + 6'42 |
80 | King Lok Cheung | Compal-Merida | + 6'48 |
81 | Damion Drapac | Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling | + 6'52 |
82 | William Germán RodrÃguez Parra | Alpina - Avianca | + 6'54 |
83 | Claudio Imhof | Team Vontobel | + 6'58 |
84 | Thomas Murray | Team ASDA-Savers | + 7'01 |
85 | Rasmus Sterobo | Risa - Ergon | + 7'10 |
86 | Ed Clancy | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 7'14 |
87 | Bernardo Colex | Team Live Nation | + 7'16 |
88 | Mateusz Taciak | Team Live Nation | + 7'17 |
89 | Arnaud Godet | AMEXpc | + 7'24 |
90 | Jimmi Sørensen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 7'28 |
91 | Alexander Edmondson | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 7'54 |
92 | Benoît Sinner | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 7'55 |
93 | Joseph Cooper | Risa - Ergon | + 8'06 |
94 | Andriy Orlov | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 8'10 |
95 | Mohamed Harrif Salleh | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 8'11 |
96 | Kenny De Haes | Risa - Ergon | s.t. |
97 | Armindo Fonseca | Team Vontobel | + 8'15 |
98 | Adam Semple | Team ASDA-Savers | + 8'16 |
99 | Niki Østergaard | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 8'19 |
100 | Yannick Stoltz | Evonik - Signal Iduna | + 8'20 |
101 | Volodymyr Gomenyuk | Privatbank - Nemiroff Professional Cycling Team | + 8'27 |
102 | Jean-Lou Paiani | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 8'28 |
103 | Alexandre Aulas | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 8'36 |
104 | Dries Beatse | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 8'46 |
105 | Azizulhasni Awang | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 9'01 |
106 | Muhamma Afif Ahmad Zamri | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 9'15 |
107 | Théry Schir | Team Vontobel | + 10'10 |
108 | Steven Tronet | Team Vontobel | + 10'55 |
109 | Jonas Koch | AMEXpc | + 11'26 |
110 | Guytan Lilholt | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 12'08 |
111 | Alireza Ashgarzadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 12'18 |
112 | Lachlan Norris | Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling | + 12'44 |
113 | Essa Khalifa | Team Live Nation | + 13'03 |
114 | Alex Rasmussen | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 13'35 |
115 | Christian Ranneries | Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank | + 14'36 |
116 | Daniel Klemme | AMEXpc | + 17'05 |
117 | Rasim Reis | Team Live Nation | + 18'44 |
118 | Simon Larsen | AMEXpc | + 19'01 |
119 | Dainius Kairelis | Control Team | + 21'04 |
120 | Ivor Bruin | Control Team | + 23'13 |
121 | Vincent Butts | In-n-Out Racing Powered by Auchan | + 23'38 |
122 | Tomasz Zywer | Control Team | + 24'51 |