Tobias Lund Andresen (Picnic PostNL) flew around the line in first position after an motion packed version of the boys’s Surf Coast Vintage the place each the climbs, crosswinds and a resolution to take the edge out of the dash of the dominant completing power of Sam Welsford (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) set the race alight.Â
Andresen overcame the Australian, who was once feeling the affects of the tough157km day on the 1.1 match from Lorne to Torquay that acts as an entree to the Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway race. Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek) was once 3rd which means that, that when some close to misses in South Australia, the 22 year-old has already controlled to drag off his first podium position after spending not up to a month within the WorldTour.
It too was once an early season success for Andresen, who had the purpose of taking his first one-day win this yr and pulled it off earlier than January was once over when he claimed the difficult dash, which has a left-hand grow to be the general kilometre.
“I was around the corner in Sam’s wheel in, like fifth position, so I was very happy,” mentioned Andresen in Torquay as he regarded again at what was once going thru his thoughts right through that profitable effort. “But then, yeah, I got swarmed so that moment you just have to stay calm – you’re not going to get anything out of rushing yourself.”Â
“A bit lucky for me, Teutenberg, he opened up an early sprint so I followed his wheel and then when you see a finish line, you don’t think about anything else than just getting there first.”
There have been quite a few moments, on the other hand, earlier than the general run in to the competitive day of racing when there was once doubt about whether or not it could even come right down to a last bunch fee, with a damage of Casper Pedersen (Soudal-QuickStep), Kelland O’Brien (Jayco-AlUla) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) stuck within the ultimate kilometres.Extra to come back …
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