British rider Steve Cummings of MTN Qhubeka has won the Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'Es Colomer.
The second Challenge Mallorca 2015 race was over 165.7kms and again had some big names on the road, who faced a number of climbs including the Puig Major.
Andre Greipel of Lotto Soudel, Huub Duyn of Roompot, Jose Gongalves of Caja Rural, Dylan Van Baarle of Cannondale/Garmin, Igor Merino of Burgos, Mark Christian of the Great Britain team, Imanol Estevez of Murias Taldea, Johann Van Zyl of MTN Qhubeka, Nico Brüngger of Roth Skoda and Marcos Jurado of the Spanish national team, were in the first break which formed early and had a four minute lead after twenty five kilometres.
That went out to six minutes after forty four kilometres before Andrei Greipel tried to get away thirty kilometres later and took a lead of fifty seconds before Brüngger, Gonçalves, van Baarle and van Zyl caught him.
Greipel and Brüngger dropped back leaving Gonçalves, van Baarle and van Zyl after they had summited Puig Major and had a lead of 1.30 with 45kms to go.
Twenty kilometres later and another thirty seconds had been taken away from the escapers.
Movistar took to the front as the gap went out to a minute with twenty kilometres left on a cloudy day and was the same with ten kilometres later and the riders starting to think about the uphull finish on the category three Mirador d'Es Colomer climb.
The gap was eighteen seconds for Gonçalves, van Baarle and van Zyl as they started on the climb with 3.6kms left and they were caught with two kilometres left by a group of fifteen riders.
In that group was British rider Steve Cummings, now riding for MTN Qhubeka after moving from BMC and he attacked, followed by Formolo and Valverde but stayed away to take the vicfory ahead of Alejandro Valverde and Davide Formolo of Cannondale/Garmin, followed by Bauke Mollema and Leopald Konig, Intxausti, Siutsou, Visconti, Boswell and Wellens.
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