Kwiatkowski wins Classica San Sebastian
Kwiatkowski out sprinted breakaway companions Mollema, Gallopin, Landa and Doumoulin
Michal Kwiatkowski showed hes still in form by winning the final sprint from a breakaway of five riders, who went away on the final climb with around 9 kms to go.
The 219 km saw a breakaway of five riders establish and build up a maximum lead of over 5 minutes. In the break were Insausti (TBM), Pfingsten (BOH), Chetout (COF), Le Turnier (COF), Delage (FDJ), Bystrom (KAT), Erviti (MOV).
Team Sky led the chase and slowly started to reel in the breakaway and with 63 kms to go, the breakaway's lead was down to 2m 40s.
Philippe Gilbert struggled and was dropped on second ascent of the Jaizkibel climb as Team Sky picked up the pace.
The breakaway was caught with 55kms to go and AG2R take over from Team Sky leading the peloton.
15 riders attacked with 30 kms to go and got a gap of around 30 seconds, Gianni Moscon has attacked out of the breakaway with 25 kms to go.
Gianni Moscon was caught before the final climb of the Murgil Tontorra.
On the final climb of the Murgil Tontorra, it was Mikel Landa, Tony Gallopin and Bauke Mollem who attacked, with Kwitakowski and Dumoulin chasing.
The two bridged across to make five riders who form the winning breakaway.
In the final sprint it Kwiatkowski who had the legs ahead of Gallopin, Mollema, Dumoulin and Landa.
Gallopin crossed the line in second place and the winner of last year's edition, Mollema, was third.
Team Sky used good team tactics with Landa and Kwiatkowski from Team Sky working together to secure a win for the team
"Such amazing Basque Spanish guys in the team today," Kwiatkowski said "They were supporting me so well and I'm very thankful to the team. You could see Mikel Landa playing his crucial role in the end, and I could go for the sprint easily. I'm very thankful to Mikel that he waited in the group in the front. Today was just amazing, the team spirit, we believed that we could win the race."
2017 Classica San Sebastian Top Ten Results
1 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 5:52:53
2 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal
3 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Sunweb
5 Mikel Landa (Spa) Team Sky 0:00:02
6 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:28
7 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 0:00:38
8 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing
9 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
10 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing