Cannondale's Peter Sagan won the eighth stage of the Tour De Suisse today.
Maxime Bouet (AG2R), Manuele Mori (Lampre), Robert Vrcer (Euskaltel) and Reto Hellenstein (IAM) attacked from the start of this 180.5km stage from Zernez to Bad Ragaz.
As the race passed through the ski resort of St Moritz, their lead was down to 4.30 from 5.15, Slovenian Robert Vrecer took the ten points on the first climb of the day on the category one Julierpass which was enough to put him back in the King Of The Mountains classification jersey.
With 71kms remaining, the gap dropped down to two minutes before Vrecer won the intermediate sprint.
The gap dropped and dropped and Hellenstein tried to plough a lone furrow, taking a 22 second lead with 22kms remaining.
Five kilometres later and Reto Hellenstein was caught and Team Sky, Katusha and Blanco were driving the peloton towards the final climb of the day at Steigstr.
Three riders went down in a crash near the summit with eight to go. Peraud was first to the top, taking the points which meant that Robert Vrecer had won the King Of The Mountains.
The pace picked up and it developed into a sprint battle between Peter Sagan and Michael Albasini. Sagan picked his moment and took the win in 4:33:26, ahead of Daniele Bennati, Phillippe Gilbert.Michael Albasini and Christophe Riblon.
Mathias Frank keeps his leaders jersey going into the final stage.