Caleb Ewan has claimed his second stage of the 2017 Tour Down Under, sprinting to victory in a messy bunch kick into Victor Harbor on stage three.
Ewan, who also won on the opening stage of the six-day race, avoided a crash in the final five kilometres and came from a long way back, but timed his move to perfection to win ahead of world champion Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Niccolo Bonifazio (Team Bahrain Merida).
“It was definitely satisfying,” Ewan said of today’s victory. “It got really really hectic in the end and I thought in the last ‘kay’ I was too far back but luckily I made my way up before the sprint and had a good run to the finish.”
“I lost my last (lead out) guy in Daryl Impey in the crash so that was a big blow. But I just held in there tight and tried to jump onto some of the other wheels and it opened up for me in the end.”
Tour Down Under 2017 – stage 3 results (Glenelg – Victor Harbor):
| 1 | Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) | 3:24:45 |
| 2 | Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 3 | Niccolò Bonifazio (Bahrain Merida) | ,, |
| 4 | Danny van Poppel (Team Sky) | ,, |
| 5 | Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo) | ,, |
| 6 | Nikias Arndt (Sunweb) | ,, |
| 7 | Sean De Bie (Lotto Soudal) | ,, |
| 8 | Lorrenzo Manzin (FDJ) | ,, |
| 9 | Ruben Guerreiro (Trek-Segafredo) | ,, |
| 10 | Baptiste Planckaert (Katusha-Alpecin) | ,, |
