Svein Tuft won the Eneco Time Trial and put himself in the leader's jersey for the final stage of the race tomorrow.
The Canadian who rides for Orica-GreenEdge, completed the 17.4km course in Ardooie, in a time of 20:25,
Tuft won by five seconds from Taylor Phinney and six seconds from Rabobank's Lars Boom, whilst Albert Contador could only finish a further sixteen seconds back.
Tom Boonen lost his jersey after coming in a minute and one second down.