After a long, hot and quiet day on the bike it came down to the fast men in Tanunda for stage 1 of the Tour Down Under 2026 with Tobias Lund Andresen (Decathlon-CMA CGM) shocking the biggest names of Sam Welsford (Ineos Grenadiers) and Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) to take the win.
It was a perfect leadout by Tord Gudmestad for Lund Andresen after Ineos Grenadiers messed up their leadout for Welsford. Brennan and Welsford came up very late to try and get by the Danish rider, but it wasn’t to be and Lund Andresen held them off.
“This feels amazing, I can’t remember the last time I felt like this. The new team, the bike is so fast, my teammates did so well,” said an over the moon Lund Andresen.
“I think you have to be a little bit stupid to be a sprinter but I think it went really well. I think I’ll give tomorrow a bit easier on the corkscrew. It is always amazing to wear a leader’s jersey, especially in a WorldTour race.”
However, after that was done and dusted and last year’s winner Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) took his customary three bonus seconds a new break formed and that was the race set for the next 100km with the three leaders not contesting any of the KOM or intermediate sprints. But it came down to the expected sprint in Tanunda.
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