End clap for the 25th Santos Tour Down Under This Sunday at night! The Australian event had already (except incident) delivered its final verdict the day before to Willunga Hill, the coronation in the general classification of Jhonatan Narvaez (Uae Team Emirates) no longer in doubt, But there was still a 6th and last step in the form of a criterium to run in the city d’Adelaide. In the heart of the chief town of Australia-meridional, the runners had to perform 20 laps of an entirely flat urban circuit of 4.5 kilometers, and it is therefore not surprisingly a final massive sprint which took place at the end of the 90 kms of the route. If the final packaging was disrupted by the fall caused by Lewis Askey (Groupama-fdj) just before the red flame, that did not prevent Sam Welsford to confirm his domination and title of best sprinter of the event! Perfectly launched by its train Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe and a Danny van Poppel imperial, the Australian resisted Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) for Carry out the hat -trick and thus equal your score from last year.
VIDEO – The TDU had delivered its verdict on Saturday to Willinga Hill!
Jhonatan Narvaez sacred, Bastien Tronchon in the top 5
Again very fast and well placed, the French completes his collection of podiums of the week (3rd Wednesday, 1st Friday and therefore 2nd this Sunday) and confirms his excellent form of the start of the season. We then find on the box the third fastest man on the set, the German Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), for a last royal sprint. The fall logically had no impact on the general classification, all the runners involved being reclassified in the winner’s time, and it is therefore Jhonatan Narvaez who officially wins this 25th edition and succeeds Stephen Williams (Israel-Prime Tech), his executioner from last year! The Equatorian is accompanied on the final podium by Javier Romo (Movistar) et Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), French Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) finishing for its part at a very beautiful 5th place.
