Team Picnic PostNL have their first victory of the 2025 season. Danish sprinter Tobias Lund Andresen proved quickest of the bunch at the Surf Coast Classic, kicking off the campaign in earnest.
“Today was a lovely day for us. We’ve been working very hard here the whole time Down Under and the days leading up to this. I really felt the full support of the team," reflects Lund Andresen post-race in a press release on Team Picnic PostNL's official website. "We were up there at the front the whole day and in the first split we had six guys in there which was great. It was a hard and fast day of racing but with the support of my team it felt quite fun to be honest actually. I’m so happy to pay back the trust from the team and the guys today with this win; so let’s keep this up on Sunday.”
As mentioned, with this being the team's first victory of the new season, it was a big moment, not only for Lund Andresen. “The boys rode superbly all day. The race split after 60 kilometres and we had six guys in the front, and we pushed on there to try and take an advantage, knowing that if it regrouped that those teams chasing would also have spent energy," assesses Team Picnic PostNL coach Matt Winston. "It all came back but everyone stayed nice and calm running into the final. We really looked after Tobi and did a fantastic job to deliver him to the finish line where he could take a really nice sprint win with us. It was a fantastic job by the whole team today and we can be really happy with that.”
1 | Lund Andresen Tobias | Team Picnic PostNL | 125 | 03:16:05 |
2 | Welsford Sam | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 85 | + 00 |
3 | Teutenberg Tim Torn | Lidl-Trek | 70 | + 00 |
4 | Strong Corbin | Israel-Premier Tech | 60 | + 00 |
5 | Tesfazion Natnael | Movistar Team | 50 | + 00 |
6 | Coquard Bryan | Cofidis | 40 | + 00 |
7 | Swift Ben | INEOS Grenadiers | 35 | + 00 |
8 | Canal Carlos | Movistar Team | 30 | + 00 |
9 | Marit Arne | Intermarché-Wanty | 25 | + 00 |
10 | Gate Aaron | XDS Astana Team | 20 | + 00 |
11 | Huby Antoine | Soudal Quick-Step | 15 | + 00 |
12 | Fox Matthew | Australia | 10 | + 00 |
13 | Walls Matthew | Groupama-FDJ | 5 | + 00 |
14 | Pacher Quentin | Groupama-FDJ | 5 | + 00 |
15 | van Poppel Danny | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 5 | + 00 |
16 | Kwiatkowski Michal | INEOS Grenadiers | 3 | + 00 |
17 | Porter Rudy | Australia | 3 | + 00 |
18 | Renard Alexis | Cofidis | 3 | + 00 |
19 | Zimmermann Georg | Intermarché-Wanty | 3 | + 00 |
20 | Konrad Patrick | Lidl-Trek | 3 | + 00 |
21 | Stewart Campbell | Team Jayco-AlUla | 3 | + 00 |
22 | Eddy Patrick | Team Picnic PostNL | 3 | + 00 |
23 | Raccagni Noviero Andrea | Soudal Quick-Step | 3 | + 00 |
24 | Walker Max | EF Education-EasyPost | 3 | + 00 |
25 | Norsgaard Mathias Sunekær | Movistar Team | 3 | + 00 |
26 | Eenkhoorn Pascal | Soudal Quick-Step | + 00 | |
27 | Nerurkar Lukas | EF Education-EasyPost | + 00 | |
28 | Lecerf Junior | Soudal Quick-Step | + 00 | |
29 | Swift Connor | INEOS Grenadiers | + 00 | |
30 | Bleddyn Oliver | Australia | + 00 |
Those winning moments 😁🥇
— Team Picnic PostNL (@picnicpostnl) January 30, 2025
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