Sometimes even a breakaway group that fails to make it to the end of the race can end up more than just a goal. At Sunday's Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race, two Continental wildcard teammates rode the majority of the WorldTour race to take the mountains and sprint jerseys.

As soon as the 176.5km race began, the two Australian Continental teams with wildcard entries, Joshua Clanage (18) and Dylan Proctor-Parker (19) of ARA Skip Capital and Team Bridge Lane's Jackson Medway (19 years old), three young players jumped out of the peloton. They then took their feet off the pedals a bit to let Zach Mariage (20) make the junction as well.

The plan at the start for the long-time Team Bridge Lane Australian team was to get two riders up on the road and try to win at least one of the jerseys.

This was also the plan of ARA Skip Capital, and Kranage jumped out early, well before the first point line in King of the Mountains, but Medway, the U23 Australian Championship time trial winner in January, was alert and ready to react! The move backfired as Medway, the winner of the U23 Australian time trial in January, was alert and ready to react.

"I just rode over the guy and opened up enough of a gap, which is what you do in the TT, so I just decided to go for it," Medway said. Not only did he win the first sprint point, but he stayed ahead alone until a little over 20 kilometers past the second set. I tried not to burn the bike too much and it was easy," Medway said.

With one jersey secured, all that was left was to score in the intermediate sprint. As they entered the local loop with 66km to go, they worked together to keep the gap to the peloton at nearly 3 minutes.

The four laps of this loop meant four climbs in Charambra, with KOM points awarded for the first three; the two dropped their companions on the climbs, and now it was Mariage's turn to take the jersey.

Two laps down, the jersey was secured, but Mariage and Medway held on, and even though the pace picked up as the battle for the final win bubbled up behind them, they held on for the third Charambra climb, and with a grimace worthy of the jersey, they took the final three points.

Mariage told reporters after his podium finish. I went into it thinking I wanted at least one of the jerseys, but I tried to slow my pursuit down as much as possible so I could finish."

His Australian teammate not only took the jersey, but the sprint prize as well.

"It's a World Tour event, so I don't get to participate too often," Mariage said. I'm not going to be there too often," Mariage said. Hopefully, maybe it will lead to something.