Tour Down Under 2017: Results & News

Four-day men's and women's stage races to replace 2021 Tour Down Under

Santos Festival of Cycling to run over six days and also include track, cyclo-cross and MTB events
Tour Down Under failed to convince even five WorldTour teams to race

UCI's decision to make participation voluntary key to race cancellation
2021 Tour Down Under cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also cancelled as WorldTour teams opt to stay in Europe

Tour Down Under 2017

Richie Porte (BMC Racing) closed the Tour Down Under with a commanding margin of victory over Esteban Chaves (Orica-Scott) and Jay McCarthy (Bora-Hansgrohe), winning his home WorldTour race for the first time in his career.

Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) won all of the stages that Porte didn't, taking out four sprint stages in addition to his victory in the People's Choice Classic.

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2017 Tour Down Under Final general classification

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Richie Porte (Aus) BMC Racing Team	19:55:49
2	Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-Scott	0:00:48
3	Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe	0:00:51
4	Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data
5	Diego Ulissi (Ita) Team UAE Abu Dhabi	0:00:59
6	Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team	0:01:02
7	Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal
8	Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
9	Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
10	Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin	0:01:04

For the 2017 Tour Down Under start list, click here and for the Beginners' Guide to the Australian racing season, click here.

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