Corkscrew Road reshuffles Tour Down Under GC

Stage 3 of the season’s first World Tour race comprised three hard climbs – Norton Summit, Checker Hill and Corkscrew Road – but only the last of these was really in the spotlight, and rightly so, as it came inside the final ten kilometers and featured some viciously steep gradients.
With the two-man breakaway caught some twenty kilometers from the base of this ascent, the GC teams pushed a pace so brutal at the front that only a depleted peloton arrived on the early slopes of Corkscrew Road. Around 1500 meters from the top, three riders pulled away and put some considerable daylight between them and the chasers, before fighting for victory in Campbelltown, where Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) prevailed.
Distanced on the climb, Soudal Quick-Step’s Mauro Schmid joined the first chasing group and went all-out on the descent together with Mattia Cattaneo and Dries Devenyns, thus retaining his place in the general classification top five, where he had made his way thanks to Thursday’s impressive ride. Now, only two days separate the Swiss from what would be his first ever top 10 in a World Tour stage race.
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Race details
1 |
Pello Bilbao López de Armentia Bahrain - Victorious |
2:48:10 |
2 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
0:00 |
3 |
Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates |
0:00 |
4 |
Michael Matthews Team Jayco AlUla |
0:28 |
5 |
Sven Erik Bystrøm Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
0:28 |
6 |
Natnael Tesfatsion Trek - Segafredo |
0:28 |
7 |
Antonio Tiberi Trek - Segafredo |
0:28 |
8 |
Milan Vader Jumbo-Visma |
0:28 |
9 |
Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team |
0:28 |
10 |
Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers |
0:28 |
22 |
Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:32 |
23 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:32 |
28 |
Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:32 |
81 |
Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step |
4:33 |
83 |
Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step |
5:00 |
86 |
Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step |
5:00 |
1 |
Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates |
10:32:50 |
2 |
Pello Bilbao López de Armentia Bahrain - Victorious |
0:15 |
3 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
0:16 |
4 |
Magnus Sheffield INEOS Grenadiers |
0:45 |
5 |
Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step |
0:46 |
6 |
Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers |
0:50 |
7 |
Sven Erik Bystrøm Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
0:54 |
8 |
Antonio Tiberi Trek - Segafredo |
0:58 |
9 |
Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team |
1:00 |
10 |
Gorka Izagirre Insausti Movistar Team |
1:01 |
14 |
Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:02 |
22 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:06 |
65 |
Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step |
6:11 |
77 |
Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step |
7:56 |
108 |
Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step |
12:47 |
1 |
Michael Matthews Team Jayco AlUla |
42 pt |
2 |
Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates |
40 pt |
3 |
Caleb Ewan UniSA-Australia |
40 pt |
4 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
36 pt |
5 |
Rohan Dennis Jumbo-Visma |
30 pt |
6 |
Phil Bauhaus Bahrain - Victorious |
30 pt |
7 |
Emīls Liepiņš Trek - Segafredo |
28 pt |
8 |
Paul Penhoët Groupama - FDJ |
24 pt |
9 |
Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step |
22 pt |
10 |
Pello Bilbao López de Armentia Bahrain - Victorious |
20 pt |
37 |
Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step |
2 pt |
1 |
Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates |
20 pt |
2 |
Mikkel Frølich Honoré EF Education-EasyPost |
17 pt |
3 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
14 pt |
4 |
Fabio Felline Astana Qazaqstan Team |
11 pt |
5 |
Luke Plapp INEOS Grenadiers |
10 pt |
6 |
Alessandro Covi UAE Team Emirates |
8 pt |
7 |
Dmitriy Gruzdev Astana Qazaqstan Team |
7 pt |
8 |
Jai Hindley BORA - hansgrohe |
6 pt |
9 |
Pello Bilbao López de Armentia Bahrain - Victorious |
4 pt |
10 |
Rohan Dennis Jumbo-Visma |
4 pt |
13 |
Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step |
1 pt |
19 |
Jannik Steimle
Soudal - Quick Step |
1 pt |
1 |
Magnus Sheffield INEOS Grenadiers |
10:33:35 |
2 |
Antonio Tiberi Trek - Segafredo |
0:13 |
3 |
Hugo Page Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
0:18 |
4 |
Paul Penhoët Groupama - FDJ |
0:47 |
5 |
Reuben Thompson Groupama - FDJ |
0:59 |
6 |
Alex Baudin AG2R Citroën Team |
1:00 |
7 |
Leo Hayter INEOS Grenadiers |
1:08 |
8 |
Alessandro Verre Team Arkéa Samsic |
2:47 |
9 |
Lorenzo Germani Groupama - FDJ |
3:07 |
10 |
Finn Fisher-Black UAE Team Emirates |
3:22 |
13 |
Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step |
7:11 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates | 31:40:31 |
2 | Soudal - Quick Step | 0:41 |
3 | Trek - Segafredo | 0:52 |
4 | Bahrain - Victorious | 0:59 |
5 | Groupama - FDJ | 1:01 |
6 | BORA - hansgrohe | 1:24 |
7 | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:25 |
8 | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 1:57 |
9 | AG2R Citroën Team | 2:11 |
10 | Team Jayco AlUla | 2:22 |