Niki Terpstra has won the Tour Of Qatar.
The sixth and final stage was a 124.5km stage from Sealine Beach Resort to Doha Corniche and saw Niki Terpstra defending a lead on a final stage which was without the eliminated Lars Boom who had been disqualified for following a team car for too long and Allejandro Valverde who felt sick and did not start.
Four riders in Preben van Hecke, Marcus Burghardt, Nicola Boem and Stefano Pirazzi got away early and were a minute ahead after ten kilometres and on entering Wakra, the gap had gone up to two minutes with Burghardt now the leader on the road, having been only fifty five seconds down on Terpstra at the start of the stage.
The riders arrived at Doha Corniche and the four up front started on ten laps of a 5.6km circuit with a lead of 45 seconds.
The four were caught with sixty eight kilometres gone and this meant that the sprinters were able to contest the sprint after 73.5kms. Tom Boonen of Etixx Quick Step took the sprint, beating Alexander Kristoff, who has won three stages in this race and was looking for a fourth.
With six laps to go, Iljo Keisse (Etixx) and Gijs van Hoecke (Topsport) got away from the peloton and took a 25 seconds lead. They were still clear at the second sprint after 90.5kms which Keisse took.
Tinkoff Saxo and Peter Sagan attacked and they brought back Keisse anf van Hoecke.
Onto the final lap and the teams were lining up their sprinters. The big names were there but it was irishman Sam Bennett of the Bora Argon 18 team, who took the win in 2.24.03 ahead of Andrea Guardini, Nacer Bouhanni, Peter Sagan, Youcef Reguigui, Adam Blythe, Matt Trentin, Tom Boonen
With Katusha's Alexander Kristoff not taking any time bonuses after finishing in nineteenth place, Niki Teprstra took the overall victory and the Gold Jersey with a six second win over Maciej Bodnar, nine seconds over Alexander Kristoff, twelve seconds over Ian Stannard of Team Sky, nineteen seconds over Greg van Avermaet, thirty one seconds over Peter Sagan and thirty three seconds over Team Sky's Luke Rowe.
Alexander Kristoff won the Points jersey with Peter Sagan taking the Young Riders classification.