Lars Boom took the overall lead in the Tour of Britain after winning Thursday’s stage five time trial.
The Lotto NL-Jumbo rider, who won the race in 2011, timed 19min 2sec around the 16-kilometre route in the coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea in southeast England.
Team-mate Victor Campenaerts of Belgium was second in the time trial, six seconds slower. He is eight seconds behind Boom overall, in second place.
The highest-placed Briton is Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, who is ninth overall after coming eighth on Thursday.
Friday’s 187km sixth stage will run from Newmarket to Aldeburgh.
Tour of Britain 2017 – stage 5 results (Tendring ITT):
| 1 | Lars Boom (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
19:02 |
| 2 | Victor Campenaerts (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+06” |
| 3 | Vasil Kiryienka (Team Sky) |
+07” |
| 4 | Stefan Kung (BMC) |
+08” |
| 5 | Jos Van Emden (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+11” |
| 6 | Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin) |
+12” |
| 7 | Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) |
+17” |
| 8 | Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) |
,, |
| 9 | Alex Dowsett (Movistar) |
+21” |
| 10 | Luke Durbridge (Orica-Scott) |
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General classification after stage 5:
| 1 | Lars Boom (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
17:57:25 |
| 2 | Victor Campenaerts (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+08” |
| 3 | Vasil Kiryienka (Team Sky) |
+09” |
| 4 | Stefan Kung (BMC) |
+10” |
| 5 | Jos Van Emden (LottoNl-Jumbo) |
+13” |
| 6 | Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin) |
+14” |
| 7 | Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) |
+19” |
| 8 | Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) |
,, |
| 9 | Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) |
,, |
| 10 | Alex Dowsett (Movistar) |
+23” |
