Monday, January 16: Women's Tour Down Under Stage 2, Birdwood - Uraidla, 90 km
Alexandra Manly takes the stage and the GC lead.
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South Australia’s Alex Manly powered to a historic Singapore Airlines stage 2 win as the Santos Tour Down Under conquered Uraidla after a Birdwood start on Monday.
Manly, 26, is in pole position, eight seconds ahead of Grace Brown from FDJ-SUEZ and Georgia Williams from EF Education-Tibco-SVB after a furious 90km.
“We just had the perfect lead out and yeah I’m so thankful,’’ Manly said. “To do this in my backyard is just so nice.”
Manly will wear the ochre leader’s jersey on the final women’s Let’s Go stage 3 Adelaide to Campbelltown on Tuesday.
She bumped Sunday’s ochre Tour Down Under leader Daria Pikulik out of the prestigious jersey after a brilliant tactical performance from her team Jayco-AlUla.
Amanda Spratt from Trek Segafredo opening a 15-second gap with just 3.5km before the Uraidla finish line was an ominous sign for her rivals.
However, Manly’s team’s stunning lead-out work vetoed Spratt’s hopes of a stage win. Spratt, a three-time Santos Tour Down Under champion, was engulfed by Jayco-AlUla and rival teams Trek-Segrafredo and FDJ-SUEZ but Manly did have concerns that her former teammate could have been too strong at the Uraidla finish line.
“I knew that (final) part of the road is always painful even when you go on a training ride,’’ Manly said.
“So, I just tried to make sure I had the momentum and of course, Spratty was going to take the opportunity to attack.
“I tried to go (catch her) but I just didn’t have the same legs as Spratty on the climb.
“I guess me being there (at the front of the race) forced the others to chase a bit and then I knew the descent and we tried to bridge back some time there.”
However, Manly’s team appeared intent to wrestle the ochre from Pikulik from the off after the Pole’s stunning Ziptrak Stage 1 victory at Snapper Point Aldinga.
Pikulik was well protected by her Human Powered Health teammates but appeared to be out of contention long before Manly’s victory.
Italy’s Ilaria Sanguineti from Trek-Segafredo beat the bunch to the first prize of the day – the Ziptrak preme sprint in front of the Kersbrook Town Hall at 34.5km.
The peloton settled into a rhythm before another short queen of the mountain challenge.
FDJ SUEZ’s Gladys Verhulst claimed consecutive efex Queen of the Mountain wins after earning the polka-dot jersey on Sunday.
Verhulst conquered North East Ridge, Chain of Ponds at 40.5km before the race was marred by a crash when Team Australia’s Nicole Frain – the 2022 national road champion - and Emily Watts from Team Bridgelane touched wheels.
Frain returned to the race, but Watts needed medical attention after hitting the tarmac hard about 30km from the Uraidla finish line.
With 20km before Manly's fireworks, Georgie Howe from Jayco AlUla marked most of the moves at the front of the peloton as teammates Amber Pate and Ruby Roseman-Gannon worked furiously in 31C heat.
Claire Steels from Israel Premier Tech then picked up three bonus seconds crossing the line first in the second Ziptrak preme sprint at Summertown, before the grand finale.
With a little more than 10km before Uraidla, reigning national road champion Brodie Chapman from Trek-Segafredo was driving the peloton hard before the second Queen of the Mountain prize at the top of Mount Lofty.
However, Spratt, 35, claimed the Queen of the Mountain title and will wear the jersey for stage 3.
Complete Results:
90 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.61 km/hr
1 | Alexandra Manly | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | 2hr 23min 33sec |
2 | Georgia Williams | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | s.t. |
3 | Nina Buijsman | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
4 | Danielle De Francesco | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
5 | Grace Brown | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
6 | Nicole Frain | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
7 | Eugenie Duval | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
8 | Abi Smith | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | s.t. |
9 | Nikola Noskova | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
10 | Amanda Spratt | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
11 | Henrietta Christie | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
12 | Ella Wyllie | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
13 | Rachel Neylan | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
14 | Krista Doebel-Hickok | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | s.t. |
15 | Ruby Roseman-Gannon | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | s.t. |
16 | Loes Adegeest | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
17 | Victorie Guilman | FDJ-SUEZ | @ 24sec |
18 | Ally Wollaston | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +1'38'' |
19 | Kaia Schmid | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
20 | Maggie Coles-Lyster | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
21 | Sophie Edwards | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
22 | Amber Pate | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | s.t. |
23 | Claire Steels | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
24 | Coralie Demay | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
25 | Dilyxine Miermont | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
26 | Mia Hayden | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +1'43'' |
27 | Brodie Chapman | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
28 | Georgina Howe | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | s.t. |
29 | Michaela Drummond | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
30 | Gina Ricardo | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +3'35'' |
31 | Rachael Wales | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
32 | Lauretta Hanson | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
33 | Lucinda Stewart | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
34 | Josie Nelson | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +3'47'' |
35 | Lauren Stephens | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | +4'12'' |
36 | Debora Silvestri | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
37 | Rylee Mcmullen | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +5'27'' |
38 | Gladys Verhulst | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
39 | Clara Copponi | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
40 | Daria Pikulik | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
41 | Camille Fahy | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
42 | Isabelle Carnes | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +6'00'' |
43 | Mari Mohr | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +7'44'' |
44 | Tiril Jorgensen | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | s.t. |
45 | Caroline Baur | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
46 | Alli Anderson | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
47 | Bryony Botha | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
48 | Josie Talbot | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
49 | Jessica Pratt | TEAM BRIDGELANE | s.t. |
50 | Lisa Klein | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
51 | Alisha Wells | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
52 | Anya Louw | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
53 | Silvia Magri | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
54 | Georgia Whitehouse | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
55 | Mia Griffin | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
56 | Elena Pirrone | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
57 | Ilaria Sanguineti | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
58 | Roxane Fournier | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
59 | Lily Williams | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
60 | Antri Christoforou | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
61 | Tayler Wiles | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
62 | Georgia Baker | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | s.t. |
63 | Sandrine Bideau | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
64 | Jessica Allen | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | s.t. |
65 | Lillee Pollock | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +9'58'' |
66 | Annamarie Lipp | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +10'43'' |
67 | Kerry Jonker | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +10'58'' |
68 | Georgia Danford | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +11'36'' |
69 | Sylvie Swinkels | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | s.t. |
70 | Haylee Fuller | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
71 | Prudence Fowler | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +13'48'' |
72 | Emily Watts | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +14'14'' |
DNF | Thi That Nguyen | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
DNS | Simone Boilard | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
GC after stage 2:
200.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 36.84 km/hr
1 | Alexandra Manly | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | 5hr 26min 20sec |
2 | Georgia Williams | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | @ 8sec |
3 | Grace Brown | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
4 | Ruby Roseman-Gannon | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | +13'' |
5 | Amanda Spratt | TREK-SEGAFREDO | +14'' |
6 | Nicole Frain | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
7 | Loes Adegeest | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
8 | Krista Doebel-Hickok | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | s.t. |
9 | Nina Buijsman | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | +16'' |
10 | Danielle De Francesco | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | +20'' |
11 | Eugenie Duval | FDJ-SUEZ | s.t. |
12 | Henrietta Christie | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
13 | Abi Smith | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | s.t. |
14 | Ella Wyllie | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
15 | Rachel Neylan | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
16 | Nikola Noskova | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | +40'' |
17 | Victorie Guilman | FDJ-SUEZ | +1'27'' |
18 | Claire Steels | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | +1'49'' |
19 | Ally Wollaston | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +1'52'' |
20 | Maggie Coles-Lyster | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
21 | Kaia Schmid | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | s.t. |
22 | Coralie Demay | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
23 | Brodie Chapman | TREK-SEGAFREDO | +1'57'' |
24 | Michaela Drummond | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | s.t. |
25 | Sophie Edwards | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +1'58'' |
26 | Amber Pate | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | +2'15'' |
27 | Georgina Howe | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | +2'20'' |
28 | Mia Hayden | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +2'46'' |
29 | Lauretta Hanson | TREK-SEGAFREDO | +3'48'' |
30 | Lucinda Stewart | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +3'49'' |
31 | Josie Nelson | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +4'01'' |
32 | Gina Ricardo | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +4'18'' |
33 | Lauren Stephens | EF EDUCATION-TIBCO-SVB | +4'26'' |
34 | Rachael Wales | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | s.t. |
35 | Dilyxine Miermont | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | +5'24'' |
36 | Daria Pikulik | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | +5'31'' |
37 | Clara Copponi | FDJ-SUEZ | +5'35'' |
38 | Rylee Mcmullen | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +5'41'' |
39 | Gladys Verhulst | FDJ-SUEZ | +5'47'' |
40 | Camille Fahy | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | s.t. |
41 | Isabelle Carnes | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +6'17'' |
42 | Debora Silvestri | ZAAF CYCLING TEAM | +6'18'' |
43 | Georgia Baker | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | +7'54'' |
44 | Ilaria Sanguineti | TREK-SEGAFREDO | +7'55'' |
45 | Roxane Fournier | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | +7'58'' |
46 | Silvia Magri | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
47 | Jessica Pratt | TEAM BRIDGELANE | s.t. |
48 | Mari Mohr | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | s.t. |
49 | Caroline Baur | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
50 | Mia Griffin | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
51 | Alisha Wells | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +8'04'' |
52 | Bryony Botha | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
53 | Anya Louw | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | s.t. |
54 | Lisa Klein | TREK-SEGAFREDO | s.t. |
55 | Elena Pirrone | ISRAEL PREMIER TECH ROLAND | s.t. |
56 | Lily Williams | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | +8'16'' |
57 | Josie Talbot | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | +8'19'' |
58 | Alli Anderson | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | +8'21'' |
59 | Antri Christoforou | HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | +8'29'' |
60 | Tiril Jorgensen | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +8'47'' |
61 | Jessica Allen | TEAM JAYCO-ALULA | +9'13'' |
62 | Sandrine Bideau | ST MICHEL-MAVIC-AUBER93 | +9'30'' |
63 | Tayler Wiles | TREK-SEGAFREDO | +9'42'' |
64 | Lillee Pollock | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +10'33'' |
65 | Georgia Whitehouse | ARA SKIP CAPITAL | +11'31'' |
66 | Kerry Jonker | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +11'43'' |
67 | Annamarie Lipp | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +11'53'' |
68 | Georgia Danford | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | +11'56'' |
69 | Sylvie Swinkels | TEAM COOP-HITEC PRODUCTS | s.t. |
70 | Haylee Fuller | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM | +12'21'' |
71 | Prudence Fowler | NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL TEAM | +14'12'' |
72 | Emily Watts | TEAM BRIDGELANE | +14'49'' |
Stage 2 map & profile:
Stage 2 map
Stage 2 profile