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Australian Jay Vine won the Tour Down Under despite falling off his bike in an accident caused by a kangaroo.
Britain’s Matthew Brennan took the fifth and final stage of the race in Australia on a day filled with drama for the home team.
With less than 100 kilometers left in the race, the kangaroo ran across the road and into the peloton, knocking several riders to the ground before plowing into more riders trying to avoid it.
The knocked-out Vine used his teammate’s bike to take the overall championship ocher jersey for the Emirates XRG team in the United Arab Emirates by 1 minute and 3 seconds.
Visma-Lease A Bike rider Brennan used strong acceleration at the end of the uphill sprint to beat New Zealand’s Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe rider Finn Fisher-Black to take the stage victory.
Brennan’s teammate Menno Huising of the Netherlands was one of the riders injured in the kangaroo incident and forced to abandon the race.
Decathlon-CMA CGM’s Tobias Lund Andresen finished third in the 169.8km stage around Stirling, near Adelaide.
Mauro Schmid of Jayco-AlUla, Switzerland won the second place, and Harry Sweeney of Australia won the third place of EF Education-EasyPost.
Lund Andresen won the blue points jersey, while Norway’s Martin Urianstad Bugge won the mint green King of the Mountain jersey for Uno X Mobility.
Brennan ranks high among several young and talented British riders taking part in the UCI World Tour this year.
He won 12 games in his first elite season in 2025.
The win capped a great week for the British rider in his first World Tour event of the year, following Ethan Vernon’s sprint victory on Saturday’s NSN stage four. The new team is co-owned by World Cup winner Andres Iniesta.
This phase has been shortened due to temperatures as high as 43 degrees Celsius.
British road champion Sam Watson opened the race with a win for Ineos Grenadiers.
A number of riders will now compete in the one-day Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road race in Melbourne, with Brennan the favorite to win.
Brennan has performed particularly well in rolling one-day races and is expected to compete in some of the sport’s biggest races this year, including the Milan-San Remo one-day race in March, as well as the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix in April.
