Decathlon CMA CGM Team
Lund Andresen the early-season find
Decathlon's signing of Lund Andresen had been one of the quieter off-season moves; his early-season pace makes it look louder in retrospect.
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Cycling Results · Post-Race Analysis · Édition 2026
Cycling Results · Post-Race Analysis · Édition 2026
§ R · 1.UWT · Australia
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
2026
Tobias Lund Andresen out-sprinted Matthew Brennan for the win on the Geelong circuit, with Australian rider Brady Gilmore third. Brennan's second on home Aussie soil was an early-season validation of Visma's young Classics prospect well before his Arenberg lead-out for Van Aert two months later.
§ · Riders we're tracking
Tracked riders in this race
§ 01 · The race in 90 seconds
Lund Andresen wins, Brennan second on home Aussie soil
OPENINGGeelong circuit, the traditional WorldTour day after Tour Down Under finishes. A reduced-bunch sprint result was always the most likely scenario; the climbing inland off the coast is enough to thin the pure sprinters but not enough to gap the puncheur-sprinters.
UNFOLDSStandard Geelong development — early break, controlled chase, reduced bunch into the finishing circuit.
DECIDEDCame down to a sprint that the Decathlon-Brennan-Gilmore order resolved cleanly.
FINALELund Andresen's spring 2026 starts to take shape here; he'd repeat on the Gent-Wevelgem podium in March. Brennan's second was the first early-season pointer that Visma's developmental plan around him was on schedule.
§ 03 · Team-by-team
Who pressed, who missed
Visma | Lease a Bike
Brennan's first big result of the year
Brennan, billed as Visma's emerging Classics leader, took second on home Aussie soil — a clean early-season validation that ran through to his Arenberg lead-out for Van Aert at Roubaix.
Riders: BRENNAN Matthew
§ 04 · Rider-by-rider · tracked riders only
How each story played out
LEADER
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Second on the Geelong circuit, behind Lund Andresen in a reduced-bunch sprint. The first major early-season pointer for the Visma development plan that would land him as Van Aert's Arenberg lead-out two months later at Roubaix.
§ 06 · Aftermath
Australian summer closes
Cadel Evans Race is always the final WorldTour day of the Aussie summer. Lund Andresen and Brennan leaving Geelong as 1-2 was a useful weighting of two of the season's emerging finishers.
§ X · Sources
Where this analysis comes from
- 🇬🇧 Cyclingnews — Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2026 result
- 🇬🇧 ProCyclingStats — Cadel Evans GORR 2026 result