2018 Women's Tour Down Under
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The 2018 Santos Women's Tour Down Under was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 11 to 14 January, 2018. The Women's Tour Down Under, being held for the seventh time, was held as a UCI rating of 2.1 race, having been a 2.2 race in 2017.[1]
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Dates | 11–14 January 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stages | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distance | 384 km (238.6 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winning time | 10h 47' 21" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The race was won for the second year in succession – becoming the first rider to win multiple Tour Down Under races – by Mitchelton–Scott rider Amanda Spratt.[2] Spratt placed third on the stage to Mengler Hill, and assumed the race leader's ochre jersey the following day by winning the stage into Hahndorf. Spratt won the race by 41 seconds ahead of Lauren Stephens, riding for Cylance Pro Cycling.[3] 2016 race winner Katrin Garfoot completed the podium, riding for the UniSA–Australia team, a further 40 seconds in arrears of Stephens.[3] With her above finishes on hill-top stages, Spratt won the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification, while Garfoot won the sprints classification and its green jersey on the final day in Adelaide, winning all four intermediate sprints during the stage.[4]
The race's other jersey, the white jersey, went to Grace Anderson of the New Zealand national team,[5] as the best-placed rider – in ninth overall – under the age of 25. Mitchelton–Scott won the teams classification,[5] after placing Spratt, Lucy Kennedy and Annemiek van Vleuten in the top-six overall.