page_title: 2013 Tour Down Under
section_title: Participating teams
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 Tour Down Under / Participating teams
caption_attribution_description: Yeah I grew up around the corner!
context_page_description: The 2013 Santos Tour Down Under was the 15th edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 22 to 27 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and was the first race of the 2013 UCI World Tour.
  The race was won by Dutch rider Tom-Jelte Slagter of the Blanco Pro Cycling team, after taking the lead on the penultimate stage of the race and held the race leader's ochre jersey to the finish, the next day, in Adelaide. Slagter also won the third stage of the race, taking the first victories of his professional career at the race. Slagter's winning margin over runner-up Javier Moreno of the Movistar Team was 17 seconds, and Team Sky's Geraint Thomas completed the podium, 8 seconds behind Moreno and 25 seconds in arrears of Slagter. Like Slagter, Thomas won a stage of the race, winning the second stage and held the race lead for three days.
context_section_description: As the Tour Down Under was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams at the time of the race were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Team Katusha was not invited, as the legal proceedings concerning their ProTour status were not resolved yet. Together with a selection of Australian riders forming the UniSA-Australia squad, this formed the event's 19-team peloton.
  The 19 teams invited to the race were:
  Ag2r–La Mondiale
  Argos–Shimano
  Astana
  Blanco Pro Cycling
  BMC Racing Team
  Cannondale
  Euskaltel–Euskadi
  FDJ
  Garmin–Sharp
  Lampre–Merida
  Lotto–Belisol
  Movistar Team
  Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
  Orica–GreenEDGE
  RadioShack–Leopard
  Saxo–Tinkoff
  Team Sky
  UniSA-Australia
  Vacansoleil–DCM
  Among the 133-rider start list were four previous winners of the race. Stuart O'Grady (1999 and 2001) and Simon Gerrans (2006 and 2012) were both part of the Orica–GreenEDGE line-up, 2003 winner Mikel Astarloza was part of the Euskaltel–Euskadi squad for the race, while André Greipel – another two-time winner, in 2008 and 2010 respectively – was the main sprinter for the Lotto–Belisol squad.
caption: Orica–GreenEDGE rider Stuart O'Grady, winner of the race in 1999 and 2001, was one of four former Tour Down Under overall winners to compete in the 2013 edition.
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