The 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour presented by Let's Go Motorhomes was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 30 to 31 January

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. The 2018 edition was the inaugural edition of the race. The race was won by

Brodie Chapman Brodie Mai Chapman (born 9 April 1991) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UAE Team ADQ. Cycling career Chapman competed in mountain bike events before transitioning to road racing. Sixth place at the ...

, riding for an Australian national team. Chapman soloed to victory in the opening stage, before maintaining her lead in the following day's time trial, won by world champion

Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (; born 8 October 1982) is a retired Dutch professional Bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is twice a winner of both the UCI Road World Cha ...

(). Van Vleuten finished second overall, five seconds down on Chapman, while the podium was completed by

Chloe Hosking Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She holds the record for the most professional wins for an Australian woman with 39 professional wins in her career. Hosking has represented Australia at junior an ...

, 63 seconds behind for the team. Chapman won the mountains classification, Hosking was the winner of the sprints classification, while the Australian national team won the teams classification. Jeanne Korevaar of won the other jersey, the white jersey, as winner of the young rider classification for under-23 riders.

Teams

16 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour.

Route

The race route was announced on 6 December 2017.

Stages

Stage 1

;30 January 2018 —

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to Healesville,

Stage 2

;31 January 2018 — Alexandra Gardens to Southbank, ,

individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...

(ITT)

Classification leadership table

References

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