Katusha's Alexander Kristoff has taken the win on stage seven of the Tour Of California.
Stage seven was a 146.5km stage which started and finished in Santa Rosa and had Peter Stetina of Trek Segafredo, Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), and teammate Michael Gogl, Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data), Jhonatan Restrepo (Katusha), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing), Toms Skujins (Cannondale), Stetina's teammate Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), Caleb Fairly (Giant-Alpecin), Mike Teunissen (LottoNl-Jumbo), Krists Neilands (Axeon Hagens Berman), Rob Squire (Holowesko-Citadel) and KOM leader Evan Huffman and teammate Danny Pate (Rally Cycling) in the break.
Evan Huffman took the opening three climbs before Peter Sagan took the fourth climb on Hauser Bridge Road after the front group split.
George Bennett (LottoNl-Jumbo) took the fifth climb on Seaview Summit with only Peter Sagan, Greg Van Avermaet, George Bennett,
Krists Neilands, Rob Squire and Javier Megias left up front, 1.10 ahead of what was left of the peloton.
Peter Sagan took the sprint and after avoiding Wonder-Woman and a gnome, the World Champion took the KOM climb.
On the descent, Sagan started to put time into the chasers and he was 1.25 ahead of the chasers with 33kms left.
The chasers were caught by the peloton as Sagan got into time-trailling mode.
A minute ahead of the peloton, Sagan spoke to his team car and decided that with 22kms to go, it was best to drop back to a depleted peloton and save himself for the final stage.
Katusha and Direct Energie sent riders to the front before they got to the closing circuit of which there were three 4k laps.
Katusha continued to lead as they started the final lap and went nder the flam rouge.
Into the final turn and the 800m sprint for the line. everyone waited and then Alexander Kristoff went and just beat Peter Sagan and Danny Van Poppel.
Julian Alaphillippe keeps his lead going into the final stage.
Marianne Vos won the women's race with Megan Guarnier keeping her lead going into the final race.