 The first breakaway of the day came from Jonathan Hivert ( Bretagne – Séché Environnement ) . He attacked alone and took both the mountains points and the victory at the first intermediate sprint . Despite at one point having a lead of nearly four minutes , he sat up and was caught by the peloton . Michael Matthews ( Orica – GreenEDGE ) , in eighth place after the prologue , took second place in the intermediate sprint to win two bonus seconds , moving him to ten seconds behind Kwiatkowski , while John Degenkolb ( Giant – Alpecin ) took a second for finishing third . 
