Twenty-two-year-old Caleb Ewan sprinted to the win in Williamstown on the final day of racing at the Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic.
It was a two-man race down the finishing stretch with Brenton Jones (JLT Condor) locked onto Ewan's wheel and the rest of the peloton distanced. Although Jones managed to stay in Ewan's slipstream on the run-in the line, Ewan easily held off Jones in the sprint.
It is Ewan's 11th stage victory over five years of Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic racing, his third on the fast, flat seaside Williamstown course.
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"I think my success here has been down to committing pretty early," Ewan told reporters, including Cyclingnews, following podium presentations. "I start my sprint more than 300 metres out. I don't know why it still catches people out because I've done it the last few years. As long as I keep doing that and getting to that corner first, I'm pretty positive."
A three-time series overall winner, Ewan had been aiming for title number four, but a crash on the final corner of stage one derailed is overall ambitions.
"It would have been nice to win the series, but at the end of the day, this is a small stepping stone going into bigger races in the new year, so I'm not all that disappointed," said Ewan. "Yesterday I had a bit of a dig and got away in the breakaway and felt really good. Today I won the sprint. I feel like I have all my bases covered going into Nationals."
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