Results Tour Down Under 2026 | Matthew Brennan wins stage 5 and saves Visma's race; Jay Vine confirms overall win

Stage 5 of the 2026 Tour Down Under finished in Stirling and although the hilly circuit provided some attacks and it led to an aggressive race, the peloton arrived to the finish together and Jay Vine confirmed the overall win. Matthew Brennan of Team Visma | Lease a Bike took the victory on the final sprint.

The final stage had high expectations with the hilly circuit in Stirling providing space for a GC raid, whilst being a day where the win could come from many different scenarios: Early breakaway, tactical GC attack, late surge or even a small bunch sprint. A first group, after several attacks, was formed by Baptiste Veistroffer, Robert Stannard and Fabio van den Bossche. Later, Luke Plapp and Pascal Eenkhoorn would join Stannard for a second breakaway.

Pavel Novak then bridged across to the front group when the gap then extended, although the thinned down UAE had the situation relatively under control due to the work of other teams. On the penultimate lap, the uphill sections were enough for attacks to surge from the peloton, with Santiago Buitrago attacking from the peloton with 21 kilometers to go, being joined by Gal Glivar and Movistar duo of Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda and last year's runner-up Javier Romo. The remains of the breakaway were caught and dropped on the day.

The quartet entered the final 7 kilometers, mostly uphill, with 30 seconds of lead. With 3 kilometers to go the gap was down to 15 seconds to a trio up front that didn't include Romo now, with several teams putting on a fierce chase. The breakaway was caught at the entrance of the final kilometer by Visma who looked to prepare a sprint for Matthew Brennan.

INEOS led it out and NSN's Brady Gilmore launched an extremely strong early sprint. It looked like the Australian was going to be able to take it, but Matthew Brennan came through in the final meters and took the stage win ahead of Finn Fisher-Black and Tobias Lund Andresen.