2019 Tour Down Under Stage 6 Results & Recap
Stage 6 of the 2019 Tour Down Under is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Porte wins on Willunga, Impey takes home ochre jersey.
In a thrilling finale of the Santos Tour Down Under, Tasmanian Richie Porte played his cards right to take the final stage of the race, for the sixth time in a row no less.
Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) made history becoming the first to win the Tour Down Under two times in a row. The South African national champion kept Porte in his sights to slide into the jersey after race leader Paddy Bevin (CCC) went backwards on the climb struggling with his injuries he endured after a bad crash on the previous stage.
Despite the threat from Team Sky’s Wout Poels in the final kilometres, Porte’s experience on the Willunga Hill shone through, and his win bumped him up 14 places to second overall. Poels took second on the stage and ended up in third place on GC.
In the opening kilometres, Alex Dowsett (Katusha-Alpecin), Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal), Danny van Poppel (Team Jumbo-Visma), Jasha Sütterlin (Movistar), Gediminas Bagdonas (AG2R La Mondiale), Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Nick White (UniSA-Australia) made up the early break of the day. They stretched out a lead of about three minutes that stood up for the majority of the stage.
The first time up Willunga, the breakaway fractured with only Van Poppel and White grinding away a few seconds ahead of the Sky-led peloton.
Their efforts were all for naught eventually, as Kenny Elissonde of Team Sky attacked out of the peloton, caught and passed the remnants of the break while Poels bridged up to his teammate. They crested the climb together, but the peloton reset, and it stayed together until they came around again for the final time.
Again, Elissonde and Poels attempted to strike fear in their rivals by attacking first, however, they couldn’t withstand the pace as the gradient steepened, which was where Porte made his move. \n
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