Tejay Van Garderen of BMC has won the seventh stage of the Tour De Suisse.
The queen stage of the race and a 224.3km stage from Arbon with a high-altitude summit finish at the Rettenbach Glacier above Sölden.
Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Soudal), Dries Devenyns (IAM) and Amets Txurruka (Orica-GreenEdge) did not start in a stage which saw Mathias Brandle (IAM),Iljo Keisse (Etixx-QuickStep) and KOM eader Antwan Tolhoek (Roompot) in a three man break that at one stage was twelve minutes clear.
Tolhoek took the first climb of the stage and after Kamil Gradek and Pierre Latour, who was in the leaders jersey for stage six abandoned, the riders were 9.30 ahead on the road up to Rettenbach Glacier which had cows quite happily walking down the road totally oblivious to Switzerland's biggest bike race.
Keisse took the first sprint and the second sprint as their lead stood at 7.30.
On to the final climb and the rain came down as the escapers were caught with 5.4kms to go.
Tejay Van Garderen made a break for it and was half a minute ahead with a kilometre and a half to go.
The American pressed on and won in 6.:26:13, sixteen seconds ahead of Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana and Warren Barguil of Team Giant-Alpecin who takes over the race lead.