 The break was formed on the first @-@ category climb that began the day 's racing . Thomas De Gendt ( Lotto – Soudal ) , who had taken the lead of the mountains classification on stage four , attacked again . He was joined by Andrew Talansky ( Cannondale – Garmin ) , Romain Sicard ( Team Europcar ) , Egor Silin ( Team Katusha ) and Paweł <unk> ( Tinkoff – Saxo ) . De Gendt won the mountain sprint on this climb and on all the other climbs of the day . The group was never allowed more than four minutes ' lead , since Talansky was only 2 ' 51 " behind the leader on general classification . The chase was led by Kwiatkowski 's Etixx – Quick @-@ Step team , who were joined by Cofidis with 60 km ( 37 mi ) remaining . With 20 km ( 12 mi ) remaining and the gap at 1 ' 30 " , Team Sky 's Bradley Wiggins moved to the front of the peloton . After Wiggins had reduced the gap , BMC Racing Team took up the pace @-@ setting . 
