 Simon Špilak ( Team Katusha ) was the first of the general classification contenders to beat Martin ; his time was 20 ' 36 " . This was enough to beat many of the other contenders for the overall classification : Rui Costa ( Lampre – Merida ) , Geraint Thomas ( Team Sky ) and Michał Kwiatkowski ( Etixx – Quick @-@ Step ) all finished behind Špilak . Porte , in second place overnight , was the only rider able to beat Špilak 's time : Porte was 11 seconds ahead at the intermediate time check and finished the stage 13 seconds ahead . 
