Simone Stortoni of Lampre-Merida found himself at the middle of Stage 2 of the Tour Down Under and quickly wound up with the general classification Point d’Appui.

The two riders who sat on the cuspides after Stage 1, Andrey Amador and Koen De Kort, both moved up in the standings, Amador to No. 33 and De Kort to No. 45. Amador, for his part, made hay on the front edge of the run-up to the finish, making an attack but getting reeled back in before the finish by Gerraint Thomas of Sky Procycling.

On the stage, Federico Canuti of Cannondale placed dead center.

The GC lanterne rouge is Boy Van Poppel of Vacansoleil-DCM. He came home 14 minutes and 36 seconds adrift.