Dennis on the attack at the Tour Down Under, with Simon Yates and Richie Porte chasing
(Image credit: Getty Images Sport)Rohan Dennis (Team Ineos) won the fifth and final installment of the Digital Swiss 5 series of virtual races.
The Australian’s emphatic victory in Race 5 was his second win of the Digital Swiss 5, following his triumph on the opening day. In a repeat of that result, Dennis beat Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) into second place, while Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) took third place.
"Today was a lot harder than stage 1 but I had Nico chasing me and I could see Schachmann was as well. I went out quite hard and tried to hold onto it," Dennis said.
Article continues below"[Roche] just kept going, I could feel him coming and I sort of measured my effort to what he was doing and made sure I had a little bit left at the end to kick again."
On the climb itself, Roche pulled clear of the German champion and began to close his gap to Dennis, at one point closing to within 80 metres. The Irishman’s was unable to get any closer, however, as Dennis managed his advantage calmly to win by 12 seconds, with Vingegaard coming home a further 25 seconds back in third.
| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rohan Dennis (Aus) Team Ineos | 0:59:28 |
| 2 | Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sunweb | 0:00:12 |
| 3 | Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma | 0:00:37 |
| 4 | Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb | 0:00:45 |
| 5 | Max Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe | 0:00:49 |
| 6 | Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb) | 0:00:50 |
| 7 | Ben O'Connor (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling | 0:01:10 |
| 8 | Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team | 0:01:16 |
| 9 | Nick Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott | 0:01:31 |
| 10 | Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling | 0:01:33 |
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