By 50km to go, just Louvel and Portsmouth remained out ahead of the bunch and shortly after they had been caught by the peloton. There was then some bad news for Team Visma | Lease a Bike as race leader Axel Zingle abandoned 4 Jours du Dunkerque following a crash.
The attacks didn't end there though, and with 20km to go, Sam Maisonobe of Cofidis was dangling in front of the peloton by around 20 seconds, with the Frenchman joined by a counter-attacking Ben Swift and Lucas Beneteau shortly after. By 1km to go, Maisonobe and Swift were still around 7 seconds clear of the peloton, but with 600m to go they'd been caught. Then came the sprint and in the fight for the line it was the
INEOS Grenadiers' Samuel Watson who emerged victorious ahead of
Carlos Canal and
Lewis Askey.