Dylan Van Baarle has won the Tour of Britain.
The Garmin Sharp rider led the race going into the final stage 8B which was ten laps of the 8.8km circuit which Sir Bradley Wiggins had won on earlier and the attacks came right from the flag being dropped.
King Of The Mountains winner Mark McNally was in that break which was brought back before a six man break started which included Alex Dowsett of Movistar, Net App's Jan Barta and Paul Vos, Manuel Boaro of Tinkoff Saxo, an An Post rider in Shane Mullin as well as Partridge.
They had a lead of twelve seconds after the first lap but with less than 74 kilometres to go, they were brought back thanks to some good work by BMC's Steve Cummings.
Jan Barta, Sylvain Chavanel and Manuel Boaro were the next to go clear, heading past Big Ben and onto the finish line at Whitehall for the start of the second lap.
Steve Cummings, Jan Barta, Mark McNally, Chris Latham of the GB U23 team and Liam Holohan of Madison Genesis were the next to break starting on lap three and with 57.4kms left, they had a lead of thirty six seconds.
With 47.3kms and at speeds of 55kmph, Mark McNally touch the wheel of Holohan and hit the deck. Jan Barta avoided the crash but was behind Steve Cummings who took the sprint on lap five in a competition won by Seb Lander of BMC.
That meant that it was only the stage victory and the general classification which were left to decide.
Cummings, Barta, Latham and Holohan were 22 second ahead at the end of lap six. That lead was down to ten seconds with 25kms left so Liam Holohan and Chris Latham launched an attack before being joined by Stauff of MTN Qhubeka with just over two laps to go.
Holohan let Andreas Stauff and Chris Latham go with 11.4kms left. The duo were nineteen seconds clear going into the final ten kilometres and they were fifteen seconds ahead as they took the bell with 8.8kms remaining.
Both were caught three kilometres later and the race leader was xclose to the front of the peloton, keeping pace with his team who had Tyler Farrar and Jack Bauer on the front with less than three to go.
Julian Vermote of Omega Pharma Quick Step had a turn on the front and it was one for the sprinters as they went under the flam rouge with Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish handily placed.
Mark Renshaw was leading out and Cavendish went but Marcel Kittel of Giant Shimano got past him to win in 1.50.32.
Third was Nicola Ruffoni of Bardiani with Sanz fourth and Rick Zabel fifth.
With Dylan Van Baarle finishing safely, the Garmin Sharp rider was able to enjoy his victory over Michael Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma Quick Step) by ten seconds and 22 seconds over Sir Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky.
IAM Cycling won the Team Award with Alex Dowsett of Movistar taking the overall Combativity Award.
Seb Lander of BMC took the Yodel Direct Sprinters jersey,
Mark McNally of An Post won the King Of The Mountains competition.
Michal Kwiatkowski of Omega Pharma Quick Step took the Chain Reaction Points classification