Tour de France 2019: Peter Sagan Wins Stage 5 Ahead of Wout van Aert

Peter Sagan won Stage 5 of the 2019 Tour de France on Wednesday.

The Bora-Hansgrohe rider crossed the finish line in a sprint finish in Colmar ahead of Wout van Aert and Matteo Trentin.

It is the 29-year-old's 12th Tour de France stage victory.

Here are the results from Stage 5:

Julian Alaphilippe remains the general classification leader while his closest rival is Van Aert, who sits 14 seconds behind.

The peloton began the 175.5-kilometre stage in Saint-Die-des-Vosges.

A hectic start saw multiple early, brief breakaway attempts with Lotto Soudal's Thomas De Gendt heavily involved.

Eventually, four did successfully escape the peloton—De Gendt's Lotto Soudal team-mate Tim Wellens, Mads Schmidt Wurtz, Toms Skujins and Simon Clarke—while Sagan remained at the front of the chasing pack.

Polka dot jersey wearer Wellens took full advantage of being in the breakaway, and he took King of the Mountain points at the Cote de Grendelbruch and the Cote du Haut-Koenigsbourg:

Meanwhile, Clarke won the intermediate sprint at Heiligenstein.

The breakaway was eventually subsumed by the peloton. Skujins was the last one to fall with around 21 kilometres remaining, but not before he took maximum points at the Cote des Trois-Epis.

After a late charge from Rui Costa, Sagan made his move at the death to secure the win:

On Thursday, the riders face a gruelling, mountainous route in Stage 6, as they travel 160.5 kilometres from Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles.