Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) wins stage 5 in Quimper, Tour d France.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) wins stage 5 uphill sprint battle against Sonny Colbreli (Bahrain -Merida) in Quimper, Tour d France.

Sagan's win has tightened his grip on the green jersey after claiming stage 5 of the Tour de France. and Philippe Gilbert (Quick-Step Floors) took the stage honours, while (BMC) Greg Van Avermet finish seventh to retain the yellow jersey.

How stage 5 unfolded

An ill Michael Matthews (Sunweb) and an injured Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal) were non-starters as the race left Lorient, and the attrition continued as the peloton snaked through the neighbouring town of Ploemeur, where an early crash forced Robert Kiserlovski (Katusha-Alpecin) out of the Tour.

The day's breakaway forged clear soon afterwards, as Sylvain Chavanel, Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie), Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal), Julien Vermote (Dimension Data), Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo), Elie Gesbert (Fortuneo-Samsic) and Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) slipped up the road and established a maximum lead of four minutes.

General classification after stage 5

1, Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) BMC Racing Team18:22:00,
 2, Tejay van Garderen (United States) BMC Racing Team0:00:02,
3, Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) Quick-Step Floors0:00:03,
 4, Geraint Thomas (Great Britain) Team Sky0:00:05, 5, Julian Alaphilippe (France) Quick-StepFloors0:00:06,
 6, Bob Jungels (Luxemburg) Quick-Step Floors0:00:09,
 7,Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) Team Sunweb0:00:13,
 8, Søren Kragh Andersen (Denmark) Team Sunweb,
 9, Rigoberto Uran (Colombia) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale0:00:37,
10, Rafal Majka (Poland) Bora-Hansgrohe0:00:52