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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. 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.

As of this writing (2009) it is the only Pro Tour race held outside Europe.

Year

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

Distance

Average Speed
km/hr
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