Nestled amid rolling hills some 28km southeast of Adelaide lies the town of Hahndorf. Dating from early 1839 when 187 German Lutheran immigrants disembarked in Port Adelaide and negotiated the purchase of land in the Adelaide Hills, Hahndorf is recognised as Australia’s oldest surviving German settlement. How fitting, then, that some 169 years later it was to be the scene of German sprinter André Greipel’s first official stage win at the Tour Down Under, a race he would come to dominate.
In 2008 the event was celebrating its 10th edition as well as its newly acquired UCI ProTour status (the equivalent
