Andre Greipel wins Down Under Classic

Andre Greipel wins People's Choice Classic, January 2013

A lean Andre Greipel and his Lotto-Belisol team have set a high benchmark ahead of next week's Tour Down Under comfortably winning a prelude criterium in Adelaide, Australia today.

The 30-year-old Greipel and Matthew Goss (Orica-GreenEdge) were the only two in an overhead camera shot at the finish of the 51km race, which the former claimed on the back of a text book lead-out from his teammates including chief lieutenant Greg Henderson, who was third.

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