Optum's Eric Young snatched victory with a late sprint on the fifth stage of the Tour Of Utah.
A herculean effort by Tom Danielson of Garmin-Sharp had given him the leader's jersey and a lead of fifty eight seconds going into this fifth stage from Main St., Evanston, Wyoming to Main Street, Kamas on a 163.1km stage.
An early six man attack was caught before two stage winner Moreno Hofland abandoned which meant that Jure Korcan was the new sprint leader.
Clark, Louder, and Bookwalter were 2.45 ahead after fifty kilometres but as the race headed towards the day's King Of The Mountains climb, Jens Voigt, Carpenter and Carlsen joined them.
Carpenter took the climb on Bald Mountain as the leaders clocked up a five minute advantage.
The leaders started on the final circuit around Kamas and the gap dropped to a minute with 22kms left despite a crash in the peloton which took down Hermes of BMC.
Into the final ten kilometres and the gap was down to 25 seconds but Bookwalter Clarke Carpenter Voigt and Carlson kept going but just before the line, they were caught and Eric Young of Optum who had been lead out by Alex Candelario snatched victory ahead of Jure Kojcan and Kiel Reijnen.
Tom Danielson keeps his lead in the race.