Tour Down Under (Pro Tour), Australia
Winners, podium, distance, average speed
The Tour Down Under stage race is held in South Australia in January.
The first stage begins on the third Tuesday in January, which is Summer in Australia.
A look at the results below will show that the time differences are small. The Tour Down Under doesn't have a time trial (saving the teams a lot of money in travel costs by eliminating the shipping of the time trial bikes) and the area surrounding Adelaide, where the race is held, has no truly serious climbs. Sprinters tend to do very well in the Tour Down Under.
Australian rider Simon Gerrans is the race's most successful competitor with four overall victories, starting in 2006.
From 2010 on, the links to fuller results in the "year" column also include the single-day Down Under Classic results. That race is held on the Sunday before the Tour Down Under begins.
Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the 2021 edition was a shortened version called the "Santos Festival of Cycling".
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed
|
| 1999 | Stuart O'Grady 19hr 3min 47sec |
Jesper Skibby @ 21sec |
Magnus Bäckstedt @ 35sec |
762 km | 39.972 |
| 2000 | Gilles Maignan 19hr 2min 2sec |
Stuart O'Grady @ 12sec |
Steffen Wesemann @ 14sec |
776.2 km | 40.779 |
| 2001 | Stuart O'Grady 18hr 34min 20sec |
Kai Hundertmark @ 2sec |
Fabio Sacchi @ 3sec |
757 km | 40.759 |
| 2002 | Michael Rogers 16hr 59min 44sec |
Alexandre Botcharov @ 21sec |
Patrick Jonker @ 30sec |
733 km | 43.128 |
| 2003 | Mikel Astarloza 17hr 17min 45sec |
Lennie Kristensen @ s.t. |
Stuart O'Grady @ 4sec |
735 km | 42.495 |
| 2004 | Patrick Jonker 16hr 32min 19sec |
Robbie McEwen @ 1min 13sec |
Baden Cooke @ 1min 21sec |
741 km | 44.804 |
| 2005 | Luis León Sánchez 16hr 45min 44sec |
Allan Davis @ 33sec |
Stuart O'Grady @ 47sec |
719 km | 42.894 |
| 2006 | Simon Gerrans 16hr 36min 54sec |
Luis León Sánchez @ 7sec |
Robbie McEwen @ 14sec |
676 km | 40.696 |
| 2007 | Martin Elmiger 15hr 46min 38sec |
Karl Menzies @ 3sec |
Lars Ytting Bak @ 11sec |
658 km | 42.276 |
| 2008 | André Greipel 18hr 46min 18sec |
Allan Davis @ 15sec |
José Joaquin Rojas @ 33sec |
785 km | 41.818 |
| 2009 | Allan Davis 19hr 26min 59sec |
Stuart O'Grady @ 25sec |
José Joaquin Rojas @ 30sec |
802 km | 41.234 |
| 2010 | André Greipel 18hr 47min 5sec |
Luis León Sánchez @ 11sec |
Greg Henderson @ 15sec |
794.5 km | 42.295 |
| 2011 | Cameron Meyer 17hr 54min 27sec |
Matthew Goss @ 2sec |
Ben Swift @ 8sec |
758 km | 42.329 |
| 2012 | Simon Gerrans 20hr 46min 12sec |
Alejandro Valverde @ s.t. |
Tiago Machado @ 8sec |
803 km | 38.662 |
| 2013 | Tom Jelte Slagter 18hr 28min 32sec |
Javier Moreno @ 17sec |
Geraint Thomas @ 25sec |
758.5 km | 41.054 |
| 2014 | Simon Gerrans 19hr 57min 35sec |
Cadel Evans @ 1sec |
Diego Ulissi @ 5sec |
815.5 km | 40.857 |
| 2015 | Rohan Dennis 19hr 15min 18sec |
Richie Porte @ 2sec |
Cadel Evans @ 20sec |
812.3 km | 42.171 |
| 2016 | Simon Gerrans 19hr 11min 33sec |
Richie Porte @ 9sec |
Sergio Henao @ 11sec |
781.3 km | 40.709 km/hr |
| 2017 | Richie Porte 19hr 55min 49sec |
Esteban Chaves @ 48sec |
Jay McCarthy @ 51sec |
802.0 km | 40.229 km/hr |
| 2018 | Daryl Impey 20hr 3min 34sec |
Richie Porte @ s.t. |
Tom-Jelte Slagter @ 16sec |
738.8 km | 36.831 km/hr |
| 2019 | Daryl Impey 20hr 30min 42sec |
Richie Porte @ 13sec |
Wout Poels @ 17sec |
827.5 km | 40.330 km/hr |
| 2020 | Richie Porte 20hr 37min 8sec |
Diego Ulissi @ 25sec |
Simon Geschke @ s.t. |
870.2 km | 42.204 km/hr |
| 2021 | Luke Durbridge 8hr 10min 59sec |
Luke Plapp @ 2min 0sec |
Chris Harper @ 2min 31sec |