Santos Tour Down Under - Stage 4: Norwood - Strathalbyn, 124km

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Santos Tour Down Under - Stage 4: Norwood - Strathalbyn, 124km

The Adelaide Hills will ensure there is tough, but stunning racing as the race passes through the historic tourist town of Hahndorf before the finish at Strathalbyn. Today should be a good day for a break even though the hardest climbs come early in the day. Date: Friday 21 January 2011 Start and Finish: Norwood to Strathalbyn Start Time: 11am (The Parade, Norwood) Skoda King of the Mountain: Checker Hill Road, Kersbrook Jayco Sprint Locations: Main Street, Gumeracha and Onkaparinga Valley Road, near Balhannah Feed Station: Macclesfield Finish Time: 2.28pm ETA Race Distance: 124km
Stage Profile Last 3 Km's Stage Map General classification before stage 4 1 Matthew Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad 9:56:25 2 André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:00:02 3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack 0:00:04 4 Michael Matthews (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team 5 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling 6 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 0:00:14 7 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 8 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - ISD 9 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team 10 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Procycling 11 Luke Roberts (Aus) UNI SA - Australia 12 Elia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 13 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 15 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 16 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Procycling 17 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 18 Davide Vigano (Ita) Leopard Trek 19 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Movistar Team 20 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 21 Ben Hermans (Bel) Team Radio Shack 22 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 23 Baden Cooke (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 24 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Katusha Team 25 Mitchell Docker (Aus) UNI SA - Australia 0:00:15

 

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Stage 4 results
1 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo 2:57:55 2 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 3 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:03 4 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:00:10 5 Matthew Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad 0:00:24 6 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 7 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling 8 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 9 Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Katusha Team 10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 11 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) UNI SA - Australia 12 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Katusha Team 13 Baden Cooke (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 14 Elia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 15 André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 16 Davide Vigano (Ita) Leopard Trek 17 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Quick Step Cycling Team 18 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 19 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 20 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team 21 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - ISD 22 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo 24 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 25 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Procycling
General Classification stage 4
1 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo 12:54:30 2 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:10 3 Matthew Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad 0:00:12 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack 0:00:15 5 André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:00:16 6 Michael Matthews (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:18 7 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling 8 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:26 9 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:27 10 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 0:00:28 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - ISD 12 Elia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 13 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Procycling 14 Luke Roberts (Aus) UNI SA - Australia 15 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team 16 Davide Vigano (Ita) Leopard Trek 17 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 18 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 19 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Procycling 20 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Movistar Team 21 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 22 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 23 Baden Cooke (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 24 Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 25 Ben Hermans (Bel) Team Radio Shack

 

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Stage 4 Photos

 

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Stage 4 News
Robbie riding to win Tour Down Under WITH ''model domestique'' Lance Armstrong riding shotgun, veteran Gold Coast sprinter Robbie McEwen has warned rivals not to write him off as the winner of the Santos Tour Down Under despite slipping to fourth place yesterday. Holder of a record 12 stages in the Tour Down Under, McEwen admits it will be tough to make up the time required to win, but not impossible. Link: http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/robbie-riding-to-win-tour-down-under/story-fn6ck6f9-1225992561010 Cameron Meyer dares to win Tour Down Under AN AUDACIOUS attack has elevated superstar-in-waiting Cameron Meyer into the overall lead in the Santos Tour Down Under. The 2010 Commonwealth Games triple gold medallist is the third Australian to don the leader's jersey after his unexpected victory in the fourth stage yesterday. The win has given the 23-year-old hope of pulling off a major sting by claiming the overall win in Adelaide tomorrow. Link: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cameron-meyer-dares-to-win/story-e6frf9if-1225992621214 Meyer ready to give his all to win CAMERON MEYER rose to the occasion when few expected in the Tour Down Under yesterday by taking the overall race lead and winning the fourth stage in a renegade breakaway - and he's now bracing himself to back it up by pressing the fancied sprinters in today's hilly fifth leg to Willunga. Meyer and three other riders from an initial six-man escape that set off midway into yesterday's 124-kilometre fourth stage from Norwood to Strathalbyn headed home a charging peloton that was led by fifth-placed Matt Goss (HTC-Highroad). link: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/meyer-ready-to-give-his-all-to-win-20110121-1a03y.html Track champ Cameron Meyer takes Tour Down Under stage four win CAMERON Meyer, having come to this race with a solid grounding on the velodrome, has shown he can now match it with the very best on the road. Three Commonwealth Games gold medals in Delhi and four rainbow jerseys in the points race, teams pursuit and Madison is proof positive that under the tight-fitting lycra, be it the green and gold of Australia, or the black and white of Garmin-Cervelo, he has a very big motor. Meyer, 23, has now chalked up his first win in a UCI-sanctioned World Tour road race. Meyer did it with some panache, figuring in a four-man breakaway that included teammate Matt Wilson, who selflessly sacrificed his chances of taking the stage by riding himself into the ground to put the man with the younger legs in position for the final sprint. Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/track-champ-cameron-meyer-takes-tour-down-under-stage-four-win/story-e6frg7mf-1225992586980 Man in ochre shows system working CAMERON Meyer is just the latest in a growing roll call of home-grown riders to have stepped up to the plate in this Tour Down Under. To watch him slip on the ochre jersey in front of the massive crowd that had turned out in Strathalbyn yesterday proves to me the system to bring on talent in this country is working. The performance was a super, super effort, coming as it did just 10 days after the double celebration of his birthday and defence of the national time trial crown. Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/man-in-ochre-shows-system-working/story-e6frg7t6-1225992612123 McEwen predicts fireworks for Tour Down Under title Veteran sprinter Robbie McEwen expects a fight to the death for the Tour Down Under title as the lead changed hands again Friday two days before the race finale in Adelaide. Fellow Australian Cameron Meyer, a world track cycling champion in his second elite year with road team Garmin-Cervelo, claimed the ochre jersey after a gutsy stage win in Strathalbyn in the Adelaide Hills. Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYPHJ4kEDLbzA0h-L7qmR33qnBug?docId=CNG.d4bf2493e23bbda63c1a68cd11283f06.111 Cycling-Meyer grabs overall lead in Tour Down Under Cameron Meyer grabbed the overall leader's jersey from fellow Australian Matthew Goss after winning the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under on Friday. Meyer, riding for the Garmin-Cervelo team, held off the sprinters and finished ahead of his breakaway companions, Vacansoleil's Thomas de Gendt and Laurens Ten Dam of Rabobank, after a 124-km ride from Norwood to Strathalbyn, near Adelaide. Link: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/21012011/2/cycling-meyer-grabs-overall-lead-tour-under.html Cameron Meyer takes Tour Down Under lead as Mark Cavendish struggles Cameron Meyer became the fourth overall leader of the Tour Down Under in as many stages after he claimed victory on the 124km course from Norwood to Strathalbyn. Meyer was involved in a four-strong breakaway group and outsprinted the Dutchmen Thomas de Gendt and Laurens Ten Dam to win the fourth stage, which was good enough to earn him a 10-second lead over Ten Dam in the overall standings. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jan/21/cameron-meyer-tour-down-under-cavendish Double delight for Meyer Cameron Meyer swept to the top of the overall standings at the Tour Down Under after outsprinting his three remaining breakaway rivals on the fourth day of action. The Garmin-Cervélo rider moved clear of the bunch with team-mate Matthew Wilson, Vacansoleil duo Rob Rujigh and Thomas de Gendt, Rabobank's Laurens ten Dam and AG2R rider Blel Kadri, soon after the first sprint points had been decided in Gumeracha. Link: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_6681726,00.html

 

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Nice set of photos Steve./img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif/img/vbsmilies/smilies/icon14.gif

 

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Nice sprint finish there by Meyer.


Weather in Adelaide looks lovely. What I'd do for a bit of sunshine/img/vbsmilies/smilies/biggrin.gif