Arnaud Demare of FDJ won the Ride London-Surrey100 race.
This race, put together by Mayor of London -Boris Johnson and his staff saw around twenty thousand people with 15,000 finishers including a host of celebrities ride a 100 mile sportif race before the professional race took place.
The race, which saw many of the UCI top teams enter six riders amongst the 246 names declared which featured the likes of David Millar and Peter Sagan, started at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and saw Jonathan Mould took the first sprint at Hampton before three riders went off the front with 178.5kms to go.
They were pulled back and a group of eight riders including Jonathan McEvoy took over, quickly building a lead of four and a half minutes.
At Newlands Corner, there was the first climb of the day and Dominique Rollin took the five points for the category three climb.
Argo Shimano's Ramon Sinckledam took the next three climbs before the escapers took on Box Hill before heading back towards the finish on The Mall in London. David Millar came out of the peloton along team mate Fabian Wegmann and with Belkin joining in, the gap dropped to 1.19 with 55kms to go.
Sky put the hammer down and the peloton consisted of a group of about thirty riders closed down Sinckeldam who took the Box Hill climb and the rest of the escapers.
Jack Bauer, Yates, and FDJ's Offredo catch the leaders which now was down to seven Rapha Condor-JLT's Mike Cuming with 40km to go.
Offredo and Waeytens took over on the front and led as the race through Kingston Upon Thames where there were very decent crowds watching, with a minute and seventeen lead over the main peloton which contained Peter Sagan of Cannondale and Matt Goss of Orica Green Edge.
Heading onto the streets of London and over Putney Bridge and Offredo and Waeytens's time was over by the side of the Thames with 5.7kms to go.
Sam Harrison of the British Cycling Team went on a solo attack before being caught with 3.3kms left.
FDJ and Argos Shimano started doing the work before Bardiani and Garmin took charge.
Past Parliament Square and the pinch point squeezed out a number of riders, meaning that now under the flam rouge, it was anybodies race.
Onto The Mall and it was a battle for the line. In a time of 5.09.35, Arnaud Demare of FDJ won the race.ahead of Sacha Modolo and Yannick Martinez. Ben Swift was the best placed British rider in tenth place.
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