2018 Women's Tour Down Under

17 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under.[6]

The race route was announced on 22 November 2017.[7]

List of stages

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	11 January	Gumeracha to Gumeracha	115.7 km (71.9 mi)		Hilly stage	Annette Edmondson (AUS)
2	12 January	Lyndoch to Mengler Hill	101.2 km (62.9 mi)[8]		Hilly stage	Katrin Garfoot (AUS)
3	13 January	The Bend Motorsport Park to Hahndorf	121.1 km (75.2 mi)[9]		Hilly stage	Amanda Spratt (AUS)
4	14 January	Adelaide	46 km (28.6 mi)		Flat stage	Chloe Hosking (AUS)

In the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received an ochre jersey.[17] This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey.[17] In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 8 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 16 points, with 12 for second, 8 for third, 6 for fourth, with one point fewer per place down to 2 points for 8th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued – awarded on a 5–3–2 scale – at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with navy polka dots.[17] In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.

The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey.[17] This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.[17]

Stage	Winner	General classification	Mountains classification	Sprint classification	Young rider classification	Team classification
1[18]	Annette Edmondson	Annette Edmondson	Sabrina Stultiens	Annette Edmondson	Maria Vittoria Sperotto	UniSA–Australia
2[8]	Katrin Garfoot	Katrin Garfoot	Katrin Garfoot		Grace Anderson	Mitchelton–Scott
3[9]	Amanda Spratt	Amanda Spratt	Amanda Spratt	Amanda Spratt
4[3]	Chloe Hosking			Katrin Garfoot
Final[3]		Amanda Spratt	Amanda Spratt	Katrin Garfoot	Grace Anderson	Mitchelton–Scott

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