Thibaut Pinot of FDJ has won stage five of the Tour De Suisse.
Tom Dumoulin of Giant Alpecin went into this 273.3km stage from Unterterzen/Flumserberg to Sölden/Rettenbachgletscher with a lead of just a second from Peter Sagan of Tinkoff Saxo.
The stage started without yesterday's winner Michael Matthews, who had decided that one win in a tough race was enough and within ten kilometres, Gregory Rast (Trek), Stefan Denifl, Matthias Brandle (IAM Cycling), Ben King (Cannondale - Garmin), Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre - Merida), Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Stefan Schumacher (CCC Sprandi) and Mirko Selvaggi (Wanty - Groupe Gobert) had formed a break which was allowed to get 8.45 clear of the peloton.
That had dropped by a minute when Stefan Denifl was the first over the Bielerhohe to increase his lead in the KOM competition but was back out to 10.30 with ninety kilometres left and 7.30 with 55kms to go.
On the climb up to the Rettenbachferne with 25kms left, AG2R, Astana and Katusha were controlling the peloton who were still 5.45 behind.
Brandle took a long turn on the front of the front group and this allowed his IAM Cycling team mate Stefan Denifl to get clear with just under twelve kilometres to go, followed by Ben King and Thomas De Gendt.
Simon Spillak started to follow as Geraint Thomas got into an elite group along with Steve Morabito,Thibaut Pinot, Rafal Majka, Sergio Henao, Domenico Pozzovivo, Simon Spilak, Winner Anacona and Joe Dombrowski as the rest of the peloton started to further fracture.
Denifl was still clear but attacks from this group saw them catch up to Spillak with four kilometres left.
They worked together and Denifl was caught by first Thibaut Pinot of FDJ and then Thomas, Pozzovivo, Spilak and Lopez.
Pinot was clear going into the final kilometre and raced away to take the stage win and the overall lead of the race.
Second was Pozzovivo, some thirty four seconds down, with Spillak third at 37 seconds with Lopez fourth and Geraint Thomas in fifth, forty three seconds down.
With Tom Dumoulin coming in ninety seconds down, Thibaut Pinot has a 45 second lead over Geraint Thomas.