Nacer Bouhanni of Cofidis has won the second stage of the 67th Critérium du Dauphiné.
Team Sky's Peter Kennaugh was in the leader's yellow jersey instead of his British Road Race champions jersey for this 173km stage from Le Bourget-du-Lac to Villars-les-Dombes and it was a stage that saw KOM leader Danny Teklehaimanot of MTN Qhubkea go away with Arnaud Coureille (FDJ) and Perrig Quéméneur (Europcar).
Over the first climb - the Col du Chat with less than ten kilometres gone, and with a lead of 1.50, Teklehaimanot took the five points on offer.
The Eritrean led the trio on the category one Col du Cuvéry.climb as the lead went out to 6.45 after sixty four kilometres and crested over the climb to take the ten points.
With the climbs over for the day, it was onto the descent and the flat run in to the finish line.
On the descent, the gap dropped straight away to 4.25 and down to 1.53 with 56.7kms to go, after FDJ's Laurent Pichon abandoned after being involved in a crash with British rider Steve Cummings, who was able to continue.
There was another big crash with just over 21kms to go with a lot of riders in the peloton held up following a touch of wheels.
Going into the final fifteen kilometres and the gap was still hovering around the 1.30 mark, so the peloton ramped up the speed and the gap was 39 seconds with 10kms to go.
On a long straight road, the peloton had the three escapers in their sights and the three were now only twelve seconds ahead of the peloton which had Vincenzo Nibali on the front with four kilometres left.
Eight hundred metres later and Team Sky had led the peloton past the escapers and Lampre-Merida came to the front to try and get the win for Sacha Modolo who was in the green jersey.
Cofidis were one of the many teams on the front whilst behind them there was a crash which took down Wilco Kelderman.
MTN Qhubeka led under the flam rouge, setting up Boasson-Hagen but through the middle came Nacer Bouhani of Cofidis to take the win in 4.23.46 beating Sam Dumolin and Sacha Modolo, followed by Boasson- Hagen, Tsatevich, Van Genechten, Keukeleire, Navardauskas, Martinez and Mezgec.
Peter Kennaugh of Team Sky keeps his race lead by 2 seconds from Modolo.
"My team could not have done more for me," said Bouhanni. "My team had every right to trust me. I knew I was in good shape and although the Tour De France remains my main goal, I had to give everything for my team who had done everything for me."