Britain’s Simon Yates won his first event of the season with victory at the Tour of the Alps.
The 28-year-old Team Bike Exchange rider had led the race since winning Tuesday’s second stage.
He finished 58 seconds ahead of Spaniard Pello Bilbao with Russian Aleksandr Vlasov in third.
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German Felix Grossschartner won Friday’s fifth and final 121km stage between Valle del Chiese and Riva del Garda after a solo attack.
Yates, who finished in the peloton, has been using the race as his final warm-up for the Giro d’Italia, which begins in Sicily on 8 May.
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