Results Tour Down Under 2026 | Tobias Lund Andresen stuns to win stage 1 sprint ahead of Brennan and Welsford

Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under has seen the sprinter leadouts go head to head and in Tanunda we've had a very fast finale where Tobias Lund Andresen benefited from a perfect leadout to take what is perhaps the biggest win of his career.

The first stage of the race only presented 120 kilometers on the menu, almost fully flat, only with the slight ascents to Menglers Hill marking the day with a three-lap circuit. Guillaume Martin and Enzo Paleni marked the day's breakaway together with Uno-X Mobility's Martin Urianstad. Before this happened, defending champion Jhonatan Narváez rode to obtain 3 bonus seconds in the early intermediate sprint.

Martin used the breakaway to collect 6 seconds, necessary for his GC stint which start off very poorly in the Adelaide prologue where he was the worst of the GC contenders. After the final one he dropped back off to the peloton, and despite having two men in the breakaway, the Frenchman resigned to see Urianstad collect the KOM classification.

Paleni was caught with 7 kilometers to go and towards the end the tense leadout saw Decathlon CMA CGM head to the front with Tord Gudmestad leading out Tobias Lund Andresen, and in the final straight into Tanunda it was the Danish sprinter who managed to take the win on the day, a strong one to open up his year. Matthew Brennan sprinted to second place whilst Sam Welsford, rather blocked in the final sprint, was third on the day.