Team Sky's Chris Froome has won the 67th Critérium du Dauphiné after snatching victory on the final climb of the final stage.
The final 156.5 kilometres from Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Modane Valfréjus saw BMC's Tejay Van Garderen trying to preserve an eighteen second lead from Chris Froome, who had been fined four thousand euros for not appearing at the press conference after his victory on stage seven.
As soon as the flag dropped, a break which featured Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Bruno Pires (Tinkoff-Saxo), Perrig Quémeneur, Romain Sicard, Cyril Gautier (Europcar), Albert Timmer (Giant-Shimano), Gatis Smukulis (Katusha), Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) and Stephen Cummings (MTN-Qhubeka) formed and after the Côte d'Héry-sur-Ugine climb which Perrig Quemeneur, the group which was 3.20 clear was joined by Lars Boom (Astana), Julien Simon (Cofidis) and Bart De Clerq (Lotto Soudal.
With just under one hundred kilometres left, this group had a lead of 2.15, so Tony Martin attacked this front group and was soon ten seconds clear, building that lead up to fifty seconds with sixty kilometres to go whilst the peloton were four minutes further down the road and without Herrada who abandoned after he crashed in the feedzone with a number of riders.
Martin crested over the Lacets de Montvernier which featured a number of switchbacks as some of the chasing group were brought back by Peter Kennaugh, who led the peloton over the Lacets de Montvernier.
The German was 1.20 clear going into the final twenty five kilometres before he sat up and allowed Steve Cummings to take over the lead.
The British rider was 1.08 with nine kilometres left and 1.20 two kilometres later. The peloton led by Astana and Team Sky before Scarponi attacked followed by Froome and Tejay Van Garderen who had been shadowing Froome all day.
The gap continued to drop but the Wirral hailing Cummings was putting in every last drop of effort on the final climb.
There was only nine riders in Froome's group including Dan Martin and Simon Yates.
With 2.6kms left and having caught Cummings, Froome attacked but Van Garderen was coming back
Froome needing fourteen seconds to win was nine seconds clear and pushed again to further increase his lead. Simon Yates went after Van Garderen who was fighting for second place.
Yates and Costa caught Van Garderen as Froome rode away and won in 3.59.27. Yates finished second ahead of Costa with Van Garderen finishing seventeen seconds down to give Chris Froome the overall victory.
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