A day after his stunning time trial performance gave him the overall race lead, George Bennett crossed the finish line safely within the pack on the seventh and final stage of the Amgen Tour of California on Saturday and celebrated the first WorldTour event win of his career. 

Following an impressive ride on the Stage 5 finish up to Mt. Baldy in which the 27-year-old New Zealand rider finished third behind Andrew Talansky (Cannondale-Drapac) and Rafal Majka (Hansgrophe), Bennett took control of the race during the Stage 6 time trial. His fourth-place overall finish in the time trial gave him a 35-second advantage over Majka and 36 seconds on Talansky in the general classification going into the final stage.

On Stage 7, the race calmed down for the GC leaders, following some minor attacks on the last climb with Talansky testing the other contenders. The peloton was split over the climbs, which isolated a select group at the front from the main sprinters. Rally Cycling played its cards well by putting three men in the break. They worked well together on the descent into Pasadena. Evan Huffman outsprinted David Lopez Garcia (Sky) to become the only rider to claim multiple stage wins at this year's Tour of California. Peter Sagan won the bunch sprint behind over Matteo Trentin. Bennett finished with the chasers 22 seconds behind the break to comfortably win the 2017 edition of the Amgen Tour of California.

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2017 Amgen Tour of California Final General Classification Results

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo	22:54:38
2	Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe	0:00:35
3	Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac	0:00:36
4	Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team	0:00:45
5	Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky	0:01:00
6	Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates	0:01:54
7	Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data	0:01:55
8	Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky	0:02:12
9	Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb	0:02:15
10	Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek-Segafredo	0:03:14

2017 Amgen Tour of California Stage 7 Results

Place	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Evan Huffman (USA) Rally Cycling	2:37:28
2	David Lopez (Spa) Team Sky
3	Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
4	Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data
5	Rob Britton (Can) Rally Cycling
6	Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe	0:00:22
7	Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
8	John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo
9	Ben King (USA) Dimension Data
10	Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin
11	Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team
12	Luis Angel Mate (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
13	Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
14	Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team
15	Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Sky
16	Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
17	Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
18	Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
19	Janier Acevedo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
20	Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
21	Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
22	Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
23	Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
24	George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
25	Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
26	Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky
27	Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
28	Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team
29	Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo	0:00:35
30	Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb	0:00:39
31	Rúben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo
32	Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors	0:00:53
33	Travis Mccabe (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
34	Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
35	Matti Breschel (Den) Astana Pro Team
36	Colin Joyce (USA) Rally Cycling
37	Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
38	Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Sunweb
39	Jacob Rathe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
40	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
41	Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
42	Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
43	Michael Morkov (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
44	Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
45	Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
46	Kristijan Durasek (Cro) UAE Team Emirates
47	Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
48	Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
49	Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
50	Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
51	Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors	0:00:59
52	Greg Henderson (NZl) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
53	David Lozano (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
54	Serghei Tvetcov (Rom) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
55	Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
56	Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
57	Matteo Dal Cin (Can) Rally Cycling
58	Mathias Leturnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
59	Martin Elmiger (Swi) BMC Racing Team
60	Danny Pate (USA) Rally Cycling	0:01:02
61	Tiago Machado (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
62	Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
63	Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
64	Scott Thwaites (GBr) Dimension Data
65	Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
66	Federico Zurlo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
67	Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team
68	Daniel Eaton (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
69	Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo	0:01:07
70	Nick Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data
71	Gavin Mannion (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
72	Javier Megias (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk
73	Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
74	Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data	0:01:10
75	Daniel Jaramillo (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
76	Owain Doull (GBr) Team Sky	0:01:17
77	Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky	0:01:32
78	Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky	0:01:36
79	Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors	0:01:37
80	Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quick-Step Floors	0:02:25
81	Sepp Kuss (USA) Rally Cycling	0:02:30
82	Truls Korsaeth (Nor) Astana Pro Team	0:02:46
83	Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo	0:03:49
84	Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac	0:03:55
85	Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
86	Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
87	Miles Scotson (Aus) BMC Racing Team
88	Yoann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
89	Jordan Cheyne (Can) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
90	Sean Bennett (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis	0:09:20
91	Jonathan Clarke (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team	0:10:21
92	Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk	0:11:39
93	Marco Mathis (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
94	Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo
95	Romain Gioux (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
96	Joshua Berry (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
97	Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk
98	Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
99	Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
100	Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors
101	Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
102	Floris Gerts (Ned) BMC Racing Team
103	Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
104	Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
105	Ben Wolfe (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
106	Marko Kump (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
107	Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
108	Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
109	Michal Kolár (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
110	Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
111	Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
112	Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Sunweb
113	Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
114	Adam De Vos (Can) Rally Cycling
115	Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto (Mex) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis
116	Tanner Putt (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
117	Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
118	Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
119	Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
120	Filippo Ganna (Ita) UAE Team Emirates	0:11:51
121	Yousif Mirza Alhammadi (UAE) UAE Team Emirates	0:13:27
DNF	Taylor Phinney (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
DNF	Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac