With 40km to go the breakaway's lead had reduced to just 38 seconds meaning a bunch sprint finish was almost a certainty.
The breakaway were swallowed up by the bunch with 27km left and some impetus was suddenly injected into the peloton as the sprint trains prepared themselves.
A number of top sprinters including the likes of Dylan Groenewegen,
Sam Bennett and Fabio Jakobsen were in the peloton and as such the fight for position at the front was fierce.
A massive crash with just over a kilometre to go caused havoc with the bunch as a numbers of riders went down and hard.
Sam Bennett was the first man to open his sprint, challenged by Groenewegen and Caleb Ewan. After a close, photo-finish it was Groenewegen who took the win with Bennett second.