The last stage of the Tour de Suisse saw a shake up in the General Classification as Tony Martin (Omega Pharma Quickstep) lost his grip on the yellow leaders jersey.
World Road Race Champion, Rui Costa (Lampre Merida), would walk away as overall winner of the Tour de Suisse for the third year in succession.
Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) was second overall in his home tour with Tour de France contender Bauke Mollema (Belkin) rounding out the podium.
Costa, Mollema and Frank took the racing to Martin on the final stage by attacking the yellow jersey with 40km’s still to race.
Martin had already been isolated since 20km’s earlier and had to do the majority of the pacing by himself already.
Mollema and Frank though had placed team mates in the final stages early break and once the attackers had bridged to their team mates, IAM Cycling and Belkin drove the gap up to two and a half minutes over the yellow jersey group, while Costa sat on in the lead group along with a handful of riders from the original break.
With Tom Dumoulin (Giant Shimano) and Sergio Pardilla (MTN-Qhubeka) having missed the move at 40km’s to go, it was up to the two young talents, Warren Barguil (Giant Shimano) and Louis Meintjes (MTN-Qhubeka) to assist Martin with the chase.
They were able to reduce the gap to 1’40” with eight km of climbing still to go before pulling off. The gap was just too much to close though and with four km’s to go, Frank put in a big attack that only Costa and Mollema could follow from the lead group.
The race was all but done from here on with just the final stage placings to be decided now.
Pardilla and Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff Saxo) would continue to attack the yellow jersey group in the hope of improving their GC placings but they would all pretty much stay together right up to the line.
Costa took the stage win, Mollema was second across the line followed closely by Frank. Pardilla would eventually sprint across the line in 13th, just over two minutes down on the trio.
