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Tour Down Under – Results


The 2007 Tour Down Under (Cat 2.HC) was held from 16 – 21 January over 6 stages.

Overall Results

Final GC (Top 10)

1 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance                    15.46.38
2 Karl Menzies (Aus) Australia – UniSA                               0.03
3 Lars Bak (Den) Team CSC                                                   0.11
4 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Predictor – Lotto                             0.13
5 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Unibet.com                                     0.21
6 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC                                           0.50
7 Gene Bates (Aus) SouthAustralia.com-AIS                                  
8 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld                               0.55
9 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole                                 
10 Simon Clarke (Aus) SouthAustralia.com-AIS                 1.43

Points Classification (Top 3)

1 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom            26 pts
2 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance                 18
3 Pieter Ghyllebert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques             14

Mountains Classification (Top 3)

1 Serge Pauwels (Ned) Chocolade Jacques                 32 pts
2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance             28
3 Gianpaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld                           24

Young Rider Classification (Top 5)

1 Simon Clarke (Aus) SouthAustralia.com-AIS             15.48.21
2 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com                                           9.02
3 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC                                         12.17
4 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) SouthAustralia.com-AIS         15.03
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld                                    20.59

Teams

1 SouthAustralia.com-AIS                               46.59.14
2 Team CSC                                                              3.35
3 Unibet.com                                                          15.04