Peter Sagan of Tinkoff rode to victory on Stage Eleven of the 103rd Tour De France.
Stage eleven was from Carcassonne to Montpellier and was a flat 162.5km stage which would provide another opportunity for the sprinters.
192 riders signed in,including race leader Chris Froome and it was French Champion Artur Vichot of FDJ and Leigh Howard (IAM) who broke after eight kilometres and took a 35 seconds lead.
A crash took down George Bennett and Thibaut Pinot after 25km but both got back into the peloton with help from their team mates.
Vichot and Howard were 2.28 ahead when Vichot took the one point on the Cote de Minerve category four climb.and the point on the Cote de Villespassans.
Through Magalas and the gap was down to 22 seconds and with 60kms left, Vichot and Howard were caught.
There was a crash with 55kms left which saw Winner Ancona and Rafa Majka hittng the deck before the peloton prepared themselves for the sprint at Peznas which Marcel Kittel took ahead of Sagan and Cavendish and put Sagan forty points ahead of Cavendish in the points classification.
The peloton stayed together with speeds at times nudging 74km/h. Peter Sagan put in an attack with twelve kiloemetres to go but Chris Froome, Bodnar and Geraint Thomas were straight on his wheel whilst Nairo Quintana was well down the peloton.
Mark Cavendish punctured with 7.5kms to go as Froome's group took a seventeen second lead.
There was 4.2kms left when Froome put in another turn on the front but it was Sagan who led going under the flam rouge.
Thomas led them out. Froome went but it was Sagan who won ahead of Froome and Bodnar in 3.26.23.
With a six seconds bonus, Chris Froome has increased his lead in the race.