 Greipel started his season in January with a win on the first stage of the Tour Down Under in Lyndoch.He also took the closing sixth stage of the race, held in Adelaide.He was forced to withdraw from the spring classics after breaking his collarbone in a crash at Milan–San Remo, but returned to competition after seven weeks at the Four Days of Dunkirk, where he took another pair of stage wins, and he collected another two stages and the points jersey at the Tour of Belgium.