Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) has won the final stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana after a two-man break was caught within the final 500 meters.
Iljo Keisse (Quick-Step Floors) and Michael Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) decided to try their luck in a breakaway. The two adventurers almost made it all the way to the finish but the peloton reached them just in time to force a mass sprint.
In the sprint, Bryan Coquard outsprinted Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) and Coen Vermeltfoort (Roompot-Oranje Peloton).
“It was difficult out there. The escape of two guys did a terrific job. The Roompot rider attacked with 400 metres to go and messed it up for us a bit. That left us all out of power and I was out on my own but in the end it was great. I’m happy that the riders and teams and riders found a solution to race today,” Coquard said
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) finished safely in the peloton to seal the overall victory.
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2017 – stage 5 results (Valencia – Valencia):
| 1 | Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) | 1:01:23 |
| 2 | Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) | ,, |
| 3 | Coen Vermeltfoort (Roompot – Nederlandse Loterij) | ,, |
| 4 | Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Floors) | ,, |
| 5 | Iljo Keisse (Quick-Step Floors) | ,, |
| 6 | Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Katusha-Alpecin) | ,, |
| 7 | Magnus Cort (Orica-Scott) | ,, |
| 8 | Guillaume Boivin (Cycling Academy) | ,, |
| 9 | Enrique Sanz (Spain) | ,, |
| 10 | Kristian Sbaragli (Dimension Data) | ,, |
Final general classification:
| 1 | Nairo Quintana (Movistar) | 15:21:49 |
| 2 | Ben Hermans (BMC) | +13” |
| 3 | Manuel Senni (BMC) | +32” |
| 4 | Wout Poels (Team Sky) | +52” |
| 5 | Daniel Martin (Quick-Step Floors) | +01’09” |
| 6 | Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) | +01’42” |
| 7 | David De La Cruz (Quick-Step Floors) | +01’53” |
| 8 | Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) | +02’12” |
| 9 | Merhawi Kudus (Dimension Data) | +02’13” |
| 10 | Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar) | +02’25” |
