Tom Danielson of Garmin Sharp has retained his Larry H, Miller Tour Of Utah title with a fifth place finish on the seventh and final stage of the 2014 race.
The final stage was 78 miles long/ 125.5kms and started and finished in Park City and saw Tom Danielson of Garmin Sharp start the race with a 57 second lead over Chris Horner.
Dennis Van Winden of Belkin was first to attack and was joined by Jens Voigt of Trek Factory Racing, Salerno,Bol, Soladay, Leece, Skuljins, Smith, Carpenter and Danny Eaton of Bissel.
That break was caught and it was Team Smartstop who were controlling the 98 strong peloton.
At Kamas, Jure Korcan of Team Smartstop took the three sprint points, beating Kiel Reijnen of UnitedHealthCare before another eight riders in Cristian Salerno (CAN), Maaten Tjallingii (Belkin), Jai Crawford (Drapac, Jacob Rathe (Jelly Belly), Matt Cooke (JSH), Joe Lewis (HSD), Tanner Putt and James Oram of the Bissel Development Team went off the front.
They took a fifteen second lead with 52.7 miles to go and four miles later, the gap had gone out to 2.40 as the escapers made their way up to the Wolf Creek Ranch climb, which is a category two climb with gradients of 20%.
That gap went out to 4.15 for the seven riders who were 45 seconds ahead of Joe Lewis who had a puncture.
Tanner Putt took the points on the climb ahead of Rathe before Lewis decided to abandon with 36 miles to go along with Travis McCabe, Michael Torckler and Luis Amaran.
Those who withdrew were saved having to go up Empire Pass which has gradients from 7% to 22% but before that was the sprint in the town of Midway, a town founded by Swiss immigrants.
Belkin worked to bring the gap to the seven out front to 1.15 and then down to a minute as Putt took the sprint points ahead of Rathe and Salerno.
Onto the seven mile climb up to Empire Pass, Rathe was out front on his own, follwoed by Oram and Putt with the rest of the escapers back in the peloton.
Rathe was soon caught and Race leader Tom Danielson along with Winner Anacona of Lampre and George Bennett of Cannondale tried to get away.
Bennett could stay with the pace that Danielson and Anconda were setting and dropped off. Anacona's team mate Chris Horner caught up to the front two with nine miles left and the trio took a fifteen second lead over their persuers which included Cadel Evans and Wilco Kelderman who bridged with 11.9kms left.
Carter Jones joined Evans, who was thirty seconds back down the road. Evans caught the leaders with three miles to go on a fast descent.
Evans attacked before the final turn and stormed away to win in 3.10.32 for his second win in two days. Kelderman was second with Anacona third and Horner fourth.
Tom Danielson finished fifth and took the general classification by fifty seven seconds.