Astana Qazaqstan Team and BORA - hansgrohe kept the gap under control, with occasional support from Polti - Kometa who looked to make the race harder in some of the uphill sections. A sprint was rather inevitable however at the end of the day.
The final survivors of the breakaway were caught with just under 5 kilometers to go. Polti pushed the pace on the final hilltop to try and put some of the pure sprinters under difficulty.
It was a very fast and dangerous finish in the peloton with twists and turns and a narrow road inside the final kilometer. In the absolute chaos it was Danny van Poppel who launched his sprint early but it turned out to be too early of a move. Race leader Tobias Lund Andresen was looking to leadout
Fabio Jakobsen but followed the wheel of the Australian and managed to have the best sprint at the end of the day.
He beat his own teammate Fabio Jakobsen to second place on the day, a double celebration; whilst Portugues
Iuri Leitão sprinted to third place.