Tour of Britain: Paul Magnier sprints to third stage win on stage 5

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Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) made it three wins at the Tour of Britain from five stages, launching a long-range sprint on the dragging finish into Northampton on stage 5 and holding off the challenge from Erlend Blikra (Uno-X Mobility) in second.

The three-man breakaway of the stage that got away in the opening 10km of the 149.6km route made it all the way to the final kilometre until they were swallowed up at the last by the hectic peloton after the likes of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) had worked tirelessly to peg them back.