FUZHOU, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Australian cyclist Kaden Groves of Mitchelton-BikeExchange team claimed the stage 5 of the 7th UCI Tour of Fuzhou while Kazakhstani Ilya Davidenok of Beijing XDS-Innova team won the individual overall.

Groves beat China's Zhang Zheng who created surprise for the Hengxiang Cycling Team and Jasper Frahm of the German national team after the peloton caught the 9-man breakaway that included Eritrea's Yakob Debesay, the rider lying fourth on general classification with a deficit of 52 seconds.

Davidenok, the yellow jersey and green jersey owner since stage 3 as the best overall leader and best sprinter, is finally the overall winner ahead of Benjamin Dyball of St George and Lv Xianjing, also from the Hengxiang Cycling Team. The latter remains white jersey owner as the best Chinese rider and the big sensation of the 2018 edition of the year's final professional bike race worldwide. Tesfay Hanibal from the Eritrean national team kept the polka-dot jersey in all the five stages.

Groves told Xinhua he got hung up on the bridge in a crash in the last stage. "Once I clipped in, my team-mate Sam Jenner did most of my pacemaking to move back up to the front. Coming out of a technical finish with 1km to go, with the fast downhill, at 350 meters to go, I had good legs so I overtook the Germans. I had a big chain ring on today for the downhill finish. I'm delighted to have made it."

Davidenok grabbed the second win in his career. "My team gave the maximum today to save my jersey. We caught the Eritrean rider number 92 [breakaway rider Yakob Debesay]. For my team, winning the Tour of Fuzhou is the maximum." Enditem

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