Tobias Lund Andresen (Picnic PostNL) flew throughout the road in first place after an motion packed version of the boys’s Surf Coast Classic the place each the climbs, crosswinds and a dedication to take the sting out of the dash of the dominant ending pressure of Sam Welsford (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) set the race alight.
Andresen overcame the Australian, who was feeling the impacts of the tough157km day on the 1.1 occasion from Lorne to Torquay that acts as an entree to the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road race. Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek) was third which implies, that after some close to misses in South Australia, the 22 year-old has already managed to drag off his first podium place after spending lower than a month within the WorldTour.
It too was an early season achievement for Andresen, who had the goal of taking his first one-day win this yr and pulled it off earlier than January was over when he claimed the difficult dash, which has a left-hand flip into the ultimate kilometre.
“I used to be across the nook in Sam’s wheel in, like fifth place, so I used to be very joyful,” stated Andresen in Torquay as he appeared again at what was going via his thoughts throughout that profitable effort. “But then, yeah, I received swarmed in order that second you simply have to remain calm – you are not going to get something out of dashing your self.”
“A bit fortunate for me, Teutenberg, he opened up an early dash so I adopted his wheel after which while you see a end line, you do not take into consideration anything than simply getting there first.”
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