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2020 Tour Down Under: Stage 2 Results

  • Ron 

With a perfectly timed jump, Caleb Ewan won stage 2 in the Tour Down Under, a stage from Woodside to Stirling. In the traditional uphill sprint in Stirling, Ewan was faster than 2019 champion Daryl Impey and Nathan Haas. The victory was the right answer to his disappointing seventh place in stage 1.

“I am so happy, especially after what happened yesterday, when we were absent in the final”, explained Caleb Ewan. “We had a really good plan. We spoke about it for about one hour after yesterday’s stage one. We checked what we could do better. I have to say that the boys did absolutely a perfect job today. They did everything I asked for. They brought me in perfect position. A win like today, you really can’t do it on your own. I said to them yesterday that if I wanted to win today’s stage, a real tough one, I would need all their help. They really helped me all day and put me in a good position on the climbs, so that I was out of the mess.”

It’s Caleb Ewan’s 8th stage win in Tour Down Under since 2016. Ewan takes the ochre-coloured leader’s jersey thanks to better stage placings. Sam Bennett is second, Daryl Impey 3rd, one second behind.

Rosskopf’s Aggressive Racing Rewarded with KOM Jersey

Joey Rosskopf will swap his orange CCC Team jersey for the blue and white polka dot King of the Mountains jersey on stage three of the Santos Tour Down Under after a second consecutive day in the breakaway saw the American secure the lead in the classification.

Having started the day on equal points with then-leader Jarrad Drizners (UniSA-Australia), Rosskopf, who was the most aggressive rider on stage one, made his intentions clear by attacking with Sam Jenner (UniSA-Australia) as soon as the flag dropped at the start of the 135.8-kilometer second stage.

Rosskopf out-climbed Jenner to claim maximum points on the first KOM of the day, the category two Quarry Road climb in Charleston, before the duo sat up to allow Laurens De Vreese (Astana Pro Team), and Omer Goldstein (Israel Start Up Nation) to bridge across.

In a repeat of stage one, Rosskopf attacked from the breakaway to secure the claim the final KOM of the day, extending his lead in the KOM classification to 25 points, 14 points in front of De Vreese.

Stage 2 Brief Results:

  1. Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal)
  2. Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-SCOTT)
  3. Nathan Haas (Cofidis)

General Classification After Stage 2:

  1. Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal)
  2. Sam Bennett (Deceucninck – Quick Step)
  3. Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-SCOTT)
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