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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