2019 Tour Down Under
Rank Team Time
1 UAE Team Emirates 61h 34 ' 22
2 Bahrain-Merida + 43
3 Team Dimension Data + 55
4 Team Sunweb + 1 ' 11
5 Movistar Team + 1 ' 54
6 Mitchelton-Scott + 2 ' 10
7 Team Jumbo-Visma + 2 ' 50
8 Team Sky + 5 ' 33
9 Groupama-FDJ + 6 ' 36
10 Bora-Hansgrohe + 7 ' 24
Teams classification
The 2019 Tour Down Under was a road cycling stage race, that took place between 15 and 20 January 2019 in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It was the 21st edition of the Tour Down Under and the first race of the 2019 UCI World Tour. For the first time in the race's 21-year history, the previous year's winner was able to defend their race title as 's Daryl Impey from South Africa took the overall honours on the final day. Impey had trailed New Zealand's Patrick Bevin () by seven seconds going into the stage, finishing at Willunga Hill, but Bevin lost almost six minutes on the day, due to injuries suffered in a crash the previous day. Although Impey finished third on the stage to Australian Richie Porte of - who won the Willunga stage for the sixth successive year - and rider Wout Poels from the Netherlands, Impey won the general classification and the race's final ochre jersey by thirteen seconds from Porte, with Poels a further four seconds arrears (due to the bonus seconds on the finish line) in third place. Despite not winning the race overall, Bevin took the blue jersey awarded for the sprints classification. In the race's other classifications, UniSA-Australia rider Jason Lea led the mountains classification from the opening day to the finish, edging out Poels on countback, while Chris Hamilton, also from Australia, was the winner of the white jersey for the young rider classification for , finishing in sixth place overall, after that particular jersey changed hands after every day of racing. The team classification was won by , who led from the opening day onwards, with the team having one stage victory - earned by Jasper Philipsen, who was making his début with a UCI WorldTeam.