Tobias Lund Andresen edges Sam Welsford for victory at Surf Coast Classic 2025
CyclingThursday, 30 January 2025 at 09:15
Team Picnic PostNL's Tobias Lund Andresen has taken his first victory of the 2025 season in a tight finale to the 2025 Surf Coast Classic in Australia, edging out home sprint hero Sam Welsford.
A large group threatened to have ending the bunch's hopes early, getting around a minute's advantage. When the road become more difficult though, it didn't take long for leading group to start fragmenting and inside 50 km to go, the peloton completed the catch. The drama wasn't over though as crosswinds and high pace riding made for an extremely exciting finale. In the end though, the expected sprint did come to pass and as mentioned, Lund Andresen edged out Welsford, with Tim Torn Teutenberg completing the podium.
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| 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 |
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- Let me help you. Alfredo BindaUpHill31-03-2025
- He'll certainly last it and prob ride his own race, at the front 😁
leedorney31-03-2025 - Gaio Primus Caesar Roglus, Rome is waiting for you, Imperator :-)).
maria2024202431-03-2025 - And he probably wasn’t even at the limit ;-) Have to wonder how much Mads could catch up if he’d tune his physique to be as sharp as MVDPs’Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Respect for giving Van Eetvelt credit there.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- He’s already a star for me for HAVING complained about it, the recent trend having been, let them then try to take advantage by making them sign NDAs ;-)Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Agreed, but if it was a radio thing then all the riders should have the same story and it would be easy to call anyone out. Kind of surprised this isn’t cleared up half officially afterwards, just like the Alaphilippe divorce, seems like once something spreads on the net it kind of gets accepted that everyone wants to have their own truth so no-one bothers to contest anything that’s verifiable anymore, we all just move on.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- maybe. what makes that a LITTLE fishy is that they suddenly hit the gas and started hammering it. even mathieu, who i’ve never heard complain about ANYTHING (other than teenage girls waking him up and being spit on by belgians) was pretty hacked off about the race tactics after the split. i think he was upset for what his teammates had to do, not for the fact he ended up isolated as a result.OCexile31-03-2025
- It seems that in E3 it wasn’t legit to criticise teams that « took advantage » because there was no radio communication about the incident so they couldn’t know to slow down. Only one source so far but should be quite easy to verify.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- mads SMOKED it at ghent! love that guy. he’s just the best interview ever, always smart and hilarious and with a biting intolerance for stupidity. happy for him. just as a secondary thought, consider that mvdp beat THAT version of mads by a full minute at E3 two days ago. the gap between pog/mvdp and even tho other GREAT riders like mads is kinda staggering to comprehend. this is a time in cycling history that’s certainly worth paying attention to while it lasts.OCexile31-03-2025