Matt Goss Successfully Beat Greipel | Tour Down Under 2011 Stage 1 Result

Matt Goss, drivers htc-Highroad back show off, after the Stage 0 which is intended for the Cancer Council Classic itself succeeded the forefront, this time in Stage 1 Tour Down Under 2011th Goss succeeded pecundangi former colleague of his team, lead man Greipel lottery.

Goss managed to beat André Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen geeks (RadioShack) at the finish dirace who travel 138km from Mawson Lakes to the Barossa Valley.

Break Away also color the early races of this 2011 TDU, Simon Clarke (Astana), Mathieu Perget (Ag2R-La Mondiale), Mitchell Docker (UniSA-Australia), and Jon Izaguirre Miguel Minguez (Euskaltel-Euskadi).

Jon Izaguirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) is the most aggressive drivers dirace this time, he was the last person who managed to survive dibreakaway before being overtaken by a pelotoo in 20km last.

HTC-Highroad, Sky Team, Garmin, Cervélo and Omega Pharma-Lotto tried merengsek platoon forward to set the tempo and give the best position for their sprinter.

Mark Renshaw (HTC) is successfully delivered in front of the platoon HTC troops and quits with the sweet by Matt Goss. For a while Goss was dipuncak classification of Greipel 4 seconds adrift.

Here are results of the Tour Down Under 2011 Mawson Lakes - Angaston 138km
1 Matthew Goss (Aus) 3:17:08 HTC-Highroad
Two André Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto
3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack
4 Chris Sutton (Aus), Sky Procycling
5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
6 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
7 Alessandro Ballan (Ita's) BMC Racing Team
8 Iñaki tions (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
9 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Team Movistar
10 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Procycling

General Classification after Stage 1 Tour Down Under 2011
1 Matthew Goss (Aus) 3:16:58 HTC-Highroad
2 Andre Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto 00:00:04
3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Radio Shack 0:00:06