Lotto Soudal's Andre Greipel has won the Vattenfall Classic race in Hamburg, Germany.
Movistar's British rider Alex Dowsett was amongst a strong field for this race in its 20th year which last year was won by Alexander Kristoff of Katusha and he was in the break along with Mortensen, Bono and Jan Barta of Bora Argon 18, who had competed in this year's Tour De France.
They had a lead of 4.30 ahead of a peloton which contained Mark Cavendish, Andre Greipel and German Time Trial champion Tony Martin after fifty five kilometres and that was lead was stil at 3.10 some fifty kilometres later.
It had dropped under three minutes after 115kms and went down to two minutes, fifteen kilometres later.
The main teams such as Etixx Quick Step were controlling the peloton which was 2.03 behind the four leaders with 85kms left and another bit of pressure saw the gap drop once again to 1.30.
The four up front started attacking each other and there were only two left up front in Mortensen and Bono with the peloton some fifty seconds behind after 155kms.
Dowsett and Barta were caught by the peloton and a new group of five riders including Mathias Brändle, Philippe Gilbert, Mortensen, Bono and Manuel Boaro took over with forty kilometres remaining.
There was a crash in the peloton, but on the front, Boaro went into the lead with Brändle and Gilbert chasing and they caught him within three kilometres on the second climb of the Waseberg.
The sprint teams sensing that a bunch sprint was on the cards started to move their riders to the front before Linus Gerdemann went off on his own with Julien Alaphilippe, Sep Vanmarcke, Hofland and Teuns all following.
Alaphilippe of Etixx Quick Step joined Gerdemann on the front and they were six seconds clear with eleven kilometres to go before being brought back and Diego Ulissi taking over before he too caught was as was Simon Clarke who tried next.
Mark Cavendish was involved in a crash with 1.5kms left and was visibly angry at being taken down.
It was not a clean finish as Elia Viviani and Ben Swift of Team Sky were boxed in but it was Lotto Soudal's Andre Greipel who came through to take the win ahead of Kristoff and Nizzolo.