2023 men’s Tour Down Under
Male Team 14 - 22 Jan

Tour Down Under

669 Kilometers 6 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Gorka Izagirre
  2. Imanol Erviti
  3. Lluís Mas
  4. Johan Jacobs
  5. Sergio Samitier
  6. Iván Romeo
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TV

The main event’s six stages (not the criterium) will be broadcast on the Eurosport App / website and GCN+ (02.30am CET most days).

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Timetable

It’s a bad schedule for European viewers, but not so much this time. There’s one less early wake-up this year -with the prologue starting around 8.30am CET- and the first road stage in Tanunda finishes at a ‘reasonable’ 6am CET. The rest will be completed at 5.00-5.20am CET. As usual, it’s important to note that there’s a 9h30′ time difference between the route schedules listed below and Central European Time.

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Bonus

There’s 10-6-4″ at every finish, plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.

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Social Media

The race’s official Twitter account is @tourdownunder; the hashtag is #TourDownUnder.

Stages

Analysis

01
Adelaide (CRI / ITT) (5.5km)
17 January
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  1. 01 Alberto Bettiol EF Education-EasyPost 6'19"
  2. 02 Magnus Sheffield INEOS Grenadiers +8"
  3. 03 Julius Johansen Intermarché – Circus – Wanty +10"
  4. 42 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team +28"
  5. 67 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team +34"
  6. 77 Lluís Mas Movistar Team +36"
  7. 82 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +39"
  8. 93 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team +42"
  9. 138 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +1'33"
02
Tanunda (149.9km)
18 January
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  1. 01 Phil Bauhaus Bahrain Victorious 3h37'35"
  2. 02 Caleb Ewan UniSA-Australia "
  3. 03 Michael Matthews Team Jayco-AlUla "
  4. 24 Lluís Mas Movistar Team "
  5. 25 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team "
  6. 44 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team "
  7. 94 Iván Romeo Movistar Team "
  8. 95 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "
  9. 105 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team "
03
Brighton - Victor Harbor (154.8km)
19 January
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  1. 01 Rohan Dennis Jumbo – Visma 4h00'40"
  2. 02 Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates +2"
  3. 03 Mauro Schmid Soudal – Quick Step "
  4. 32 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team +11"
  5. 70 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team +2'13"
  6. 71 Iván Romeo Movistar Team "
  7. 108 Lluís Mas Movistar Team +7'40"
  8. 113 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "
  9. 126 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team "
04
Norwood - Campbelltown (116.8km)
20 January
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  1. 01 Pello Bilbao Bahrain Victorious 2h48'10"
  2. 02 Simon Yates Team Jayco-AlUla "
  3. 03 Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates "
  4. 11 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team +28"
  5. 43 Lluís Mas Movistar Team +48"
  6. 56 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +1'46"
  7. 62 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team +2'08"
  8. 63 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team
  9. 89 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +5'15"
05
Port Willunga - Willunga Township (133.2km)
21 January
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  1. 01 Bryan Coquard Cofidis 2h53'41"
  2. 02 Alberto Bettiol EF Education-EasyPost "
  3. 03 Hugo Page Intermarché – Circus – Wanty "
  4. 19 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team "
  5. 35 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team "
  6. 39 Lluís Mas Movistar Team "
  7. 45 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +31"
  8. 74 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team +4'14"
  9. 104 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team +6'02"
06
Unley - Mount Lofty (112.5km)
22 January
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  1. 01 Simon Yates Team Jayco-AlUla 2h41'16"
  2. 02 Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates "
  3. 03 Ben O'Connor AG2R Citroën Team +2"
  4. 13 Gorka Izagirre Movistar Team +6"
  5. 55 Iván Romeo Movistar Team +2'43"
  6. 73 Imanol Erviti Movistar Team +4'58"
  7. 74 Sergio Samitier Movistar Team "
  8. 92 Lluís Mas Movistar Team +8'44"
  9. 97 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team +9'04"

Analysis

A start like those we remembered. The Movistar Team and the whole WorldTour peloton are back in Australia after the pandemic years to race the 23rd Tour Down Under, which happily returns to the top-tier calendar with a program quite changed from previous editions.

The first modification comes with the Schwalbe Classic criterium (Saturday 14th, 9.40am CET; route | profile), which isn’t counted for the GC result (that’s not new) and comes this time three days before the official start of the race. That’s because the whole women’s TDU will be covered in between — a race which the Movistar Team, like most of the WWT, won’t be attending this time.

The second big news is the first-ever ITT in the race. It’s a prologue (Tuesday 17th), barely 5.5 kilometers, in Adelaide’s CBD, quite a technical one.

After that, the race will continue with its usual five road stages, though again with changes. There should be two standard bunch sprints in Tanunda (Wednesday 18th) and Victor Harbor (Thursday 19th) -coastal winds and the Nettle Hill KOM could make things harder at the latter-, and an uphill finish for puncheurs at the Lower Willunga Hill (Saturday 21th), on 3% slopes… and that already tells our readers that no Old Willunga Hill is feature on the 2023 course.

You’re right: the two ‘mountain’ stages of this year’s race will be the Campbelltown one (Friday 20th), with the brutal Corkscrew Road (2.3km at 9%, maximum slopes of 24%) and the finale up Mount Lofty (Sunday 22th), over more than 3,000m elevation gain in just 112km and 5x a 1.3km ascent at 7%, maximum of 13%.