Joe Dombrowski has won the sixth stage of the Larry H Miller Tour Of Utah and is the new race leader.
Stage six was a 177km stage from Salt Lake City to Snowbird Ski Resort and saw Canadian Michael Woods going into the lead for a stage which provided some tough climbs.
The stage which started without one time race leader Jure Kocjan saw eighteen riders take an early break before Rob Britton, Jack Bobridge and Greg Daniel the KOM Leader took on the first climb of the day which was a category four climb
Daniel took the climb before being joined by King, Rosskopf, Van Zyl, Ramirez, Colbrelli, Smith, De Luna, Britton, James Oram, Ruben Guerreiro & Bobridge and taking a lead of two minutes.
Sonny Colbrelli took the first sprint in East Canyon as the break extended their lead to first 3.45 and then 4.45 with 94kms to go and it was Colbrelli who took the five points for being first across the State Of Sport line ahead of Dion Smith and Ben King.
Colbrelli, Van Zyl and Carlos Ramirez dropped off the back whilst Eric Young abandoned as the gap dropped to 1.30 with less than five kilometres to the top of the category one Guardsmans Pass climb.
Just two riders in Rosskopf and Britton were left on the front as they went over the climb and started on the descent. Ben King caught up to Rosskopf and Britton as their lead extended to 1.50 with 28kms left.
The gap started to tumble and with ten kilometres left, there was a thirty strong field who had the three up front in their sights.
The break was caught so King set up his Cannondale-Garmin team mate Joe Dombrowski, who went away with Frank Schleck, Rob Squire and Michael Woods.
Chris Horner and Natneal Berhane chased but Dombrowski, who was twenty seven seconds down on GC at the start of the day, made a break for it and got forty seconds clear of his chasers.
Dombrowski kept pushing and he cruised to a win in five hours and was over the finish line, some one minute and seventeen seconds to take the yellow jersey before Michael Woods led home, Berhane, Schleck and Chris Horner.
"I saw Ben up the road, so I figured if I can go across to Ben and make a selection, I know Ben can really rill it for a k or to and really whittle it down," Dombroswki said to cyclingnews.com. "And that’s sort of how we did it. Once Ben swung off I think it was only Frank Schleck with me. The tailwind helped me a lot because I knew if there was a group of three or four chasing behind it’s more or less the same for them. That definitely helped making up a deficit like that coming into this stage.
"My director came up in the car, and sometimes you’re not totally sure what the situation is..
"I mean you’re off the front and you’re probably alone, but I had to ask him, ‘Is there anyone ahead of me?’ And he said, ‘No, no. You’re going to win the stage, man. You’re going to win the race.’ And I’m like, ‘No, are you sure?’ And he said, ‘You’re going to win the race.’”