Tom-Jelte Slagter's overall victory at the Tour Down Under has given him and his Blanco Pro Cycling Team the lead in the first UCI WorldTour rankings of 2013.
Slagter scored 100 points for overall victory and 11 points for his stage results, to give him a total of 111 points. With teammates Wilco Kelderman scoring 40 points and Mark Renshaw a further six points, the Blanco Pro Cycling Team topped the team rankings with a total of 157 points, make for a successful start to the racing season for the troubled Dutch squad.
Euskaltel Euskadi is a distant second with 91 points and the Movistar Team is third with 87 points after both Spanish teams placed two riders in the top 15 overall. Javier Moreno was second overall for the Movistar Team, scoring 86 points tan dos is second to Slagter in the individual rankings. Britain's Geraint Thomas is third with 77 points after finishing third and winning a stage.
Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol) is ninth in the individual ranking, with 18 points, after winning three stages in Australia.
Spain leads the nation ranking with a total of 177 points thanks to strong performances from Javier Moreno and brothers Jon and Gorka Izaguirre Insausti of Euskaltel Euskadi. They finished fourth and seventh overall at the Santos Tour Down Under to place Spain ahead of the Netherlands -second with 152 points, with Great Britain a more distant third with 78 points.
The next race on the WorldTour calendar is Paris-Nice in France between March 3-10.
| 1 | Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 111 | pts |
| 2 | Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Movistar Team | 86 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
| 3 | Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling | 77 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
| 4 | Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 61 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
| 5 | Ben Hermans (Bel) RadioShack Leopard | 52 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
| 6 | Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 40 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
| 7 | Gorka Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 30 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
| 8 | Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 20 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
| 9 | André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol | 18 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
| 10 | Tiago Machado (Por) RadioShack Leopard | 11 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
| 11 | Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 6 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
| 12 | Mark Renshaw (Aus) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 6 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
| 13 | Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 5 | Row 12 - Cell 3 |
| 14 | Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ | 4 | Row 13 - Cell 3 |
| 15 | Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ | 4 | Row 14 - Cell 3 |
| 16 | Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 4 | Row 15 - Cell 3 |
| 17 | Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling | 2 | Row 16 - Cell 3 |
| 18 | Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team | 2 | Row 17 - Cell 3 |
| 19 | Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 2 | Row 18 - Cell 3 |
| 20 | Simone Ponzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 1 | Row 19 - Cell 3 |
| 21 | Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team | 1 | Row 20 - Cell 3 |
| 22 | Steele Von Hoff (Aus) Garmin-Sharp | 1 | Row 21 - Cell 3 |
| 23 | Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 1 | Row 22 - Cell 3 |
| 24 | Andrew Fenn (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1 | Row 23 - Cell 3 |
| 25 | Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Sharp | 1 | Row 24 - Cell 3 |
| 26 | Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1 | Row 25 - Cell 3 |
| 1 | Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 157 | pts |
| 2 | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 91 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
| 3 | Movistar Team | 87 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
| 4 | Sky Procycling | 79 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
| 5 | RadioShack Leopard | 63 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
| 6 | Lampre-Merida | 24 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
| 7 | Lotto Belisol | 19 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
| 8 | Orica-GreenEdge | 11 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
| 9 | FDJ | 8 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
| 10 | BMC Racing Team | 2 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
| 11 | Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 2 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
| 12 | Garmin-Sharp | 2 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
| 13 | Astana Pro Team | 1 | Row 12 - Cell 3 |
| 14 | Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team | 1 | Row 13 - Cell 3 |
| 15 | Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1 | Row 14 - Cell 3 |
| 1 | Spain | 177 | pts |
| 2 | Netherlands | 152 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 78 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
| 4 | Belgium | 55 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
| 5 | Italy | 26 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
| 6 | Australia | 20 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
| 7 | Germany | 18 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
| 8 | Portugal | 11 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
| 9 | Finland | 4 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
| 10 | France | 4 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
| 11 | Norway | 2 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
| 12 | United States | 1 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
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