Definitely some nerves on the peloton as we gear up for what could be a season-defining race for a few teams.

The nervousness is evident as Campari and Compal team up to close down the first couple of attacks.

It's third time lucky for the breakaway as Reijnen, Ngandamba and Belkov get away to form the break of the day.



We're at the start of the first climb on the first circuit with Zalgiris,
Compal, ENI-EMO, Valio, Campari and Eddie Sobart, all sharing the pace-making. The break's lead stands at 8 minutes.



100 kilometers to go as we start the downhill of the second hill in the second circuit. The break's lead is down to 5'40".



Campari and Valio dominate the front of the peloton for the moment with ENI-MOL helping out on occasion. The peloton have done well to gradually bring down their deficit to the break. We have 64 km to go.



First of today's riders dropped from the peloton, and it really isn't distinction would like having!



The pack is starting the last circuit with the break 1'41" ahead. They're gaining time in heaps now.



Gautier attacks with 34 km remaining. Haavardsholm tries to close him down. Ikibe starts to set the pace in peloton for Ben Nasser.



Gautier is caught a kilometer later.

The break is starting the last climb of the day on the final circuit. Their lead has stabilized over the past 10 kilometers. It is currently 1'22".



Ngandamba attacks with 19 km remaining, with the pack closing in again. He pulls out 12 seconds to his breakaway companions.



Gautier goes again from the peloton. Ben Nasser this time counters.



They quickly catch up to Reijnen and Belkov from the break. The peloton are 15 seconds down on this quartet.



17 km to go and the lead for Ngandamba is 22". Gautier and Ben Nasser have dropped the breakaway stragglers, with the latter now caught by the pack.



Haavardsholm and Di Maggio lead the charge of the peloton.



Di Maggio attacks...



...as Gautier drops Ben Nasser up ahead!



Gautier catches Ngandamba with 15 km remaining. Ben Nasser is at 9 seconds while Di Maggio is a further 36 seconds behind.



Ben Nasser catches Gautier as Ngandamba is finally dropped.



Hugentobler and Aasvold attack from the pack. Geschke and Weiss do the same and catch up.



Ngandamba is caught by the peloton with 12 km left. The four attackers are also back in the group.

Ben Nasser and Gautier reach the flat section after the final downhill. 7 km to go.



Following are the gaps:

E2 --(16" )--> Di Maggio
E3 --(45" )--> Kadri, Teklit, Zaini, Teuns, Siskevicius, Haavardsholm, Vichot, Favilli, Michely, Costagli, Hugentobler, Hategeka, Cahyadi, Serry, Hoelgaard, Pibernik, Kedebe, Ziesler, Othman, Meyer
E4 --(1'10" )--> Ngandamba, Thill, Pinot
Haas, Weiss and Geschke are further behind.







Michely is dropped from E3 a kilometer later.

Di Maggio has almost caught up to the front two.



And he does as we enter the final 5 kilometers.



The chasing group behind the front three has split up.



The front three are caught by nine riders from the chasing group with 2.5 km left.



They, in turn, have almost been caught by the next group. 2 km remaining now.



24 riders are together as we head into the final 1500 meters.



Zaini kicks things off under the red kite.



700 meters to go and the situation at the front is as follows:

		Gautier	Siskevicius
Kedebe	Kadri	Zaini
			Ben Nasser

Zaini is done and drops back rapidly. We have 400 meters remaining. Ben Nasser still leads but has taken the outside line, with Kadri better placed.



Ben Nasser still ahead with 200 meters to go. Kadri is his closest challenger. Siskevicius and Gautier are finishing fast, but still have some ground to make up.



It's safe to say that it's between Ben Nasser and Kadri now...



It is indeed Ben Nasser, who keeps Kadri at bay to win Zuri Metzgete. Kadri takes 2nd place.



Siskevicius with an excellent 3rd place after a fast finish. Gautier perhaps will be disappointed with 4th, after being the most aggressive rider of the day.



Kedebe rounds out an excellent outing for Campari, by finishing 5th, ahead of the second Delvaux rider Favilli in 6th.



Delvaux's day gets better as defending champion Vichot crosses the line in 7th. Zaini, Teuns and Pibernik complete the Top 10.



Teklit, Hugentobler, Hoelgaard, a disappointed Di Maggio and Othman round out the Top 15.



Today's winner - Hassen Ben Nasser



Campari and Delvaux the winners on the day, but it still might not be enough for the former for a promotion push. The champions end the season in a wonderful way and you can be sure there'll be a party all the way to Belgium tonight. Valio and Compal celebrate their promotion with 4th and 8th places here. Swisslion confirm promotion too, with Pibernik's 10th place surely givinh them enough to seal the deal. Not a good day for Andorra, but none of ENI-MOL, Banco de Bogota or Sauber look to have done enough to take advantage.

1	Hassen Ben Nasser	Campari - Super Dry	6h04'42
2	Blel Kadri	Delvaux	s.t.
3	Evaldas Siskevicius	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
4	Cyril Gautier	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
5	Estifanos Kebede	Campari - Super Dry	s.t.
6	Elia Favilli	Delvaux	s.t.
7	Arthur Vichot	Delvaux	s.t.
8	Tommy Zaini	Compal-Merida	s.t.
9	Dylan Teuns	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
10	Luka Pibernik	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
11	Tesfar Teklit	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
12	Daniel Hoelgaard	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
13	Gregory Hugentobler	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
14	Cesare Di Maggio	ENI-MOL	s.t.
15	Muhamad Adiq Othman	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
16	Nathan Haas	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
17	Gasore Hategeka	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
18	Pieter Serry	ENI-MOL	s.t.
19	Ole Haavardsholm	Compal-Merida	s.t.
20	Travis Meyer	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
21	Teodoro Costagli	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
22	Johan Fredrik Ziesler	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
23	Aiman Cahyadi	ENI-MOL	s.t.
24	Martin Weiss	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
25	Simon Geschke	Oberfranken	+ 59
26	Csaba Palyi	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
27	Salvatore Mancuso	ENI-MOL	s.t.
28	Bauke Mollema	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
29	Jorge Abreu	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
30	Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
31	Ingvar Omarsson	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
32	Suleiman Kangangi	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
33	Gabor Kasa	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
34	Romain Hardy	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
35	Zachary Hughes	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
36	David Veilleux	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
37	Kim Michely	ENI-MOL	s.t.
38	Paavo Paajanen	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
39	Miguel Angel Lopez	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
40	Geoffroy Ngandamba	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
41	Thibaut Pinot	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
42	Marco Minnard	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
43	Winner Anacona	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
44	Nino Schurter	Compal-Merida	s.t.
45	Tom Thill	Compal-Merida	s.t.
46	Vegard Robinson Bugge	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
47	Martin Hacecký	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
48	Miha Poljanec	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
49	Hossein Alizadeh	Oberfranken	s.t.
50	Marcel Aregger	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
51	Aidis Kruopis	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
52	Lucas Eriksson	Delvaux	s.t.
53	Jelle Wallays	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
54	Sandis Eislers	Oberfranken	s.t.
55	Lorents Ola Aasvold	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
56	Costa Seibeb	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
57	Davide Ballerini	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
58	Fabio Taborre	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
59	Martin Mahdar	Compal-Merida	s.t.
60	Sakari Lehtinen	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
61	Nicholas Schultz	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
62	Asmund Romstad Lovik	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
63	Anders Ekh Dahlberg	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
64	Meron Amanuel	ENI-MOL	s.t.
65	Kévin Reza	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
66	Jose Mendes	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
67	Pavel Potocki	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
68	Kristoffer Skjerping	ENI-MOL	s.t.
69	Bjorn Tore Hoem	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
70	Jimmi Briceno	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Vitor Rodrigues	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
72	Timothy Roe	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
73	Lawson Craddock	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
74	Piter Campero	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
75	Lukas Meiler	Campari - Super Dry	+ 3'05
76	Max Losch	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
77	Jens Keukeleire	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
78	Oscar Cabanas	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
79	Ole Hirschlein	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
80	Kiel Reijnen	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
81	Tomas Gembeckas	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
82	Kristian Aasvold	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
83	Bryan Salas	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
84	Thomas Degand	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
85	Maxim Belkov	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
86	Constantinos Thymides	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
87	Grega Bole	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
88	Janez Brajkovic	Swisslion Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Shaun Lewis	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
90	Nandra Eko Wahyudi	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
91	Diego Rosa	Campari - Super Dry	s.t.
92	Kim Magnusson	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
93	Jasper Ockeloen	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
94	Michal Schlegel	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
95	Neil Van der Ploeg	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
96	Alexis Vuillermoz	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
97	Sota Ikibe	Campari - Super Dry	s.t.
98	Dale Appleby	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
99	Oliver Naesen	Andorra Project - InGamba	+ 4'03
100	Federico Rocchetti	Campari - Super Dry	s.t.
101	César Rojas Villegas	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
102	Joonas Henttala	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
103	Daniel Afoa	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
104	Soufiane Haddi	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
105	Federico Olei	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
106	Sasu Helme	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
107	Dayer Quintana	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
108	Muhamma Afif Ahmad Zamri	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
109	George Alexandru Stancu	ENI-MOL	s.t.
110	Erick Rowsell	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
111	Dmitri Grabovski	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
112	Abderrahim Zahiri	Delvaux	s.t.
113	Martin Puusepp	Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	s.t.
114	Vadim Ratiy	Oberfranken	s.t.
115	Carlos Baltazar	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
116	Gaspar Goncalves	Delvaux	+ 5'43
117	Salvador Moreno Hernandez	Eddie Stobart	s.t.
118	Gökhan Hasta	Valio - DeLaval	s.t.
119	Charles Matte	Adastra - Argon 18	s.t.
120	Eduardo Colon	Campari - Super Dry	+ 7'17
121	Martins Blums	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
122	Michael Torckler	Telia-Brussels Airlines	s.t.
123	Arnaud Grand	Sauber Petronas Racing	s.t.
124	Piotr Brozyna	Delvaux	s.t.
125	Johannes Schinnagel	Oberfranken	s.t.
126	Jake Keough	Oberfranken	s.t.
127	Karol Andrzej Domagalski	Compal-Merida	s.t.
128	Airidas Videika	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
129	Maciej Bodnar	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
130	Jempy Drucker	Campari - Super Dry	s.t.
131	Raimondas Rumsas	DK Zalgiris	s.t.
132	Nick Reddish	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
133	Adria Urcelay	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
134	Daniel Ricardo Diaz	Oberfranken	s.t.
135	Franck Bonnamour	Andorra Project - InGamba	+ 9'11
136	Alvaro Hodeg	Delvaux	s.t.
137	Nick Bain	Rothaus - Aegon	+ 11'16
138	Anders Skaarseth	Equinor Pro Cycling	s.t.
139	Campbell Flakemore	BNZ Cycling Team	+ 12'27
140	Uladzimir Harakhavik	Compal-Merida	s.t.
141	Michael Thomson	GCN ProTeam	s.t.
142	José Rujano	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
143	Nikolay Mihaylov	Adastra - Argon 18	+ 14'46
144	Kristoffer Halvorsen	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
145	Jordan Cheyne	Banco de Bogota	s.t.
146	Luke Mudgway	BNZ Cycling Team	+ 15'42
147	James Curry	Eddie Stobart	+ 16'10
148	Omer Goldstein	Andorra Project - InGamba	s.t.
149	Steven Burke	GCN ProTeam	+ 17'30
150	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Compal-Merida	s.t.
151	Stijn Vandenbergh	Rothaus - Aegon	s.t.
152	Dario Puccioni	Oberfranken	+ 19'30