Theo Bos of Belkin won the seventh stage of the Tour Of Langkawi in Malaysia.
The longest stage of the race at 230.1kms from Kota Tinggi to Pekan started with all the early attacked being pulled back and Pavel Kochetkov (Katusha) and Ho Junrong (OCBC Singapore) forced to abandon after a crash.
Yonnatta Monsalve of the Yellow Fluo team took the only King Of The Mountains climb at Mawai after 43kms, allowing Irishman Matt Brammeier to keep his leader's jersey in the competition.
Monsalve, Brett Lancaster (Orica), Duber Quintero (Colombia) and Sheppard (OCBC Singapore) surged to the front and took a 2.45 lead which meant that Monsalve, who had taken the first sprint of the day as well, was the virtual leader on the road.
Their lead extended to 3.30 with 90kms gone and then 3.55 thirty kilometres later.
With Lancaster taking the second sprint at Endau, Eric Shepherd took the third at Rompin after 143kms.
Belkin and Astana started to work together and the gap to the front four was 2.50 with fifty kilometres to go.
The gap continued to drop and after John-Lee Augustyn (MTN-Qhubeka) had abandoned, Shepherd was swallowed up by the peloton. Then Monsalve was caught and with nine kilometres remaining, Lancaster and Quintero were caught.
The bunch sprint was on and Theo Bos raced to victory in a time of 5.33.12 ahead of Aidis Kruopis, Duque, Alzate, Kolar, Hanson, Forster, Chicchi, Guardini and Dene Rogers, a result which leaves the top ten in the General Classification led by Pourseyedigolakhour, the same going into stage eight of ten.