Fresh off a Tour Down Under where he finished on the podium in four of the six stages, Tobias Lund Andresen (Decathlon CMA CGM) edged out Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) to win the Mapei Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Geelong on Sunday.
From an elite group of 20 riders that had come together at the front of the race after the final climbs, Brennan was the first rider to start his sprint, launching early at just inside of 300 metres to go, and as Francesco Busatto (Alpecin-Premier Tech) began to lose his wheel. Andresen went around the Italian, using his slipstream to give a final turn of speed to catch and pass a fading Brennan, who actually hadn't intended to go so soon, but held on for second place regardless.
