Wout Poels of Team Sky has won the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana in Spain.
Poels, with two victories in this race, needed to finish safely to win and did just that in a stage which should have been ten laps around Valenca.
However, it was cut to just six and when the riders got into town, Stijn Vandenbergh (Etixx-QuickStep) attacked with Mirco Maestri (Bardiani CSF) and they stayed together until there was five kilometres left when Vandenbergh went solo.
The Belgian picked up a plastic bag in his back wheel but kept going and was able to take the win in 2.12.25 ahead of Dylan Groenewegen of LottoNL-Jumbo, Raymond Kreder of Roompot, Nacer Bouhanni of Cofidis and Jonas Vangenechten of IAM Cycling.
Wout Poels finished 74th behind the likes of Dan Martin and Alex Peters to take the victory and speaking about that victory, Team Sky's Sport Director Dario Cioni said: "The race showed that Wout was the strongest rider - but also the team on the whole showed that they could control every stage.
"There was never a moment when we were under pressure. Even today when it turned out to be pretty windy we'd spoken about it in the meeting and the guys were ready at the start.
"The new guys fitted in really well. Alex (Peters) did a superb job. He found some support from Nico and Kiry who gave him some advice to help him. He's shown he's a really intelligent rider and he can be really strong - even today at the end of the race he was up there no problem. It actually looked like he was getting stronger and stronger in the race so he's showing great potential for the future.
"Benat has been brought into the team as a climber and he's shown he can do that at a high level. He can climb, he can time trial. A podium finish in his first stage race of the year is really good. We also had Leo top 10 here. Even Kiry showed us why is is the world time trial champion a few times in this race. David, Mikel and everyone rode a really good race."