Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla) put his team back on track to win the final stage and the overall at the AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia.

The British rider needed the vital bonus seconds on the line that came with victory on stage 5 to edge out main GC threats William Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step) and Finn Fisher-Black (UAE Team Emirates).

The three riders finished in that order after a closely-fought sprint and kept the same placings on the GC podium, with Yates finishing ahead of Lecerf by three seconds and Fisher-Black on the same time.

The win for Yates ended a tough period for the team after a string of bad luck and crashes had taken out several of the squad’s riders in several races in Australia, Saudi Arabia and Europe.