The organisers of the Tour Down Under have unveiled a familiar looking route for its 20th edition next January. For the first time since its 1999 debut, the South Australian race will visit Port Adelaide which hosts the start of Stage 1.
Old Willunga Hill is again the queen stage of the race and will be the penultimate day of racing before the traditional final stage Adelaide city street circuit.
The 2018 Tour Down Under takes place January 16-18, with the January 14 People's Choice Classic criterium continuing its place as a key-warm up event for the WorldTour race.
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"If you had asked me in 1999 what did the next 20 years hold for the TDU, I could never have imagined we would achieve so much as an event in such a short period," race director Mike Turtur said at the unveiling.
The stage four finish in the Adelaide hills at Uraidla, after the late ascent of Norton Summit, and is the only new start or finish town for 2017. For the third year running, the Barossa town of Lyndoch hosts the stage 1 finish. Stage 2 of the Tour Down Under sees Stirling return as a finish town after its debut as a start town for five laps in 2017. Unley will host the start of stage 2. Stage 3's south jaunt from Glenelg to Victor Harbor is another traditional stage of the race and again expected to finish in a bunch sprint.
The then concludes with the two 'GC' stages with McLaren Vale hosting the start of stage 5, and the city circuit suited to the sprinters.
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