The 2023 Santos Tour Down Beneath is again after a two-year absence and so skilled biking’s WorldTour sequence will as soon as once more start in Adelaide in January, with many {of professional} biking’s finest riders beginning the brand new season within the heat of the Australian summer season.
This yr’s Tour Down Beneath is the twenty third version of the lads’s race, with the ladies’s race additionally a part of the WorldTour for the primary time.
The racing begins on Saturday January 14 however riders will arrive in Australia early, creating a novel pre-race environment because the 2023 season begins.
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The 2023 Santos Tour Down Beneath
Cyclingnews was created in 1995 and we’ve lined each version of the Tour Down Beneath because it was first held in 1999 when now race director Stuart O’Grady received the inaugural version.
The Tour Down Beneath has historically marked the beginning of the WorldTour, with solely the COVID-19 pandemic and travelling restrictions cancelling the race in 2021 and 2022. Smaller nationwide stage occasions have been held within the final years however the largest groups and most of the sport’s largest riders will return for the 2023 race in January.
Grand Tour winners Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates have all confirmed they’ll experience this yr’s Tour Down Beneath, every with robust squads from their respective Israel Premier Tech, Ineos Grenadiers and BikeExchange-Jayco groups.
Extra big-name riders shall be introduced quickly, with WorldTour standing making certain the 18 finest males’s groups and the 15 finest girls’s groups shall be on the beginning line.
There may also be a powerful Australian presence, with Caleb Ewan hoping to win his tenth stage on the Tour Down Beneath whereas driving for an Australia nationwide crew choice.
The 2023 Tour Down Beneath begins with a warm-up night criterium on Saturday January 14, placing on a present for the crowds in central Adelaide and serving to riders take a look at their type and shake out their legs earlier than the stage racing begins.
The ladies’s Tour Down Beneath consists of three levels between January 17-19, whereas the lads’s Tour Down Beneath features a prologue time trial and 5 levels.
The ladies’s race begins with a 110.4km stage from Glenelg to Aldinga close to Willunga. Stage 2 climbs into the Adelaide hills between Birdwood and Uraidla, whereas stage 3 is for the climbers and can certainly determine the general winner. The 93.2km stage consists of 1773m of ascending, together with Corkscrew Street, certainly one of Adelaide’s hardest and iconic ascents.
A stage end atop Willunga Hill has historically determined the general winner of the lads’s Tour Down Beneath however in 2023, the race will end on Mount Lofty, a brand new summit end within the Adelaide Hills.
The race begins with one other innovation, a 5.5km prologue time round Adelaide’s Riverbank. Each second received or misplaced towards the clock might be important later within the race.
The highway race levels go to the Barossa vineyards of South Australia, go to the spectacular coast roads close to Brighton and Victor Harbor, and climb into the hills through Norton Summit, Checkers Hill and Corkscrew Street on stage 3.
Stage 4 visits Port Willunga, with a spring end doubtless, earlier than the ultimate stage climbs the gorgeous backroads but once more, with 4 loops of a 25km circuit with Mount Lofty because the centrepiece. The general race winners shall be topped on the height, with the Adelaide metropolis skyline providing the backdrop.
The Cyclingnews protection of the 2023 Tour Down Beneath
Cyclingnews’ Simone Giuliani and Stephen Farrand shall be in Adelaide to cowl each the lads’s and ladies’s Tour Down Beneath.
We may have reside protection of every stage with detailed updates, full race reviews, picture galleries, unique interviews, race evaluation and all the brand new 2023 bike tech, as groups showcase their new tools and racing colors.
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