Philippe Gilbert wins a Crash marred stage 2

Quick-Step Floor's Philippe Gilbert won the 2nd stage sprint as Stefan Kung retains the leaders jersey

Five riders established the breakaway of the day and gained a lead of more than 5 minutes which consisted of Nick Dougall (Dimension Data), Lasse Norman Hansen and Conor Dunne (Aqua Blue Sport), Antoine Duchesne (Direct Energie) and Nick van der Lijcke (Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij).

There were a couple of big crashes that left Steven Lammertink (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Jonas Koch (CCC Sprandi Polowice) out of the race.

The biggest with aorund 25 kilometres to go involved Rohan Dennis (BMC) who was left on his own devices to chase back on, over 2 minutes behind.

At the front Jan Bakelants (AG2R-La Mondiale), Damiano Caruso (BMC) and Rui Costa (UAE-Team Emirates) attacked wanting to deny a sprint finish, but the chasing peloton caught them with 10 kms to go.

Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet  counter attacked but was soon brought back.

The stage came down to the final expected sprint. Gilbert out sprinted Patrick Bevin and Anthony Roux with Michael Albasini (Orica-Scott) and Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floors) 4th and 5th and Peter Sagaan in 8th place.

2017 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Top Ten Results

2017 Tour de Suisse GC after Stage 2

1 Stefan Küng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 4:29:08 
2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:01 
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb   
4 Lars Boom (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:04 
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:08 
6 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:10 
7 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott 0:00:11 
8 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:12 
9 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:13 
10 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:14 

VIDEO: Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Highlights