Tour of Qatar 2012 : 5th stage

World Champion Mark Cavendish (Sky) took his second stage victory at the Tour of Qatar, leaving behind him in a bunch sprint the distancing Liquigas-Cannondale duo Daniel Oss and Peter Sagan.

Cavendish had little difficulty in negotiating the chaos of the finishing straight. After picking his way through a disorganised peloton, Cavendish reeled off an emphatic sprint with 200 metres to go to take the win.

Earlier on Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Katusha) and Maciej Bodnar (Liquigas-Cannondale) escaped, but were swept up by the Garmin-Barracuda-led peloton in the final 7km.

- Classification 5th stage:

.1. Mark Cavendish (GBR) Sky 3h.30.40

.2. Daniel Oss (ITA) Liquigas s.t.

.3. Peter Sagan (SVK) Liquigas s.t.

.4. John Degenkolb (ALE) Project 1t4i s.t.

.5. Rüdiger Selig (ALE) Katusha s.t.

- General classification:

.1. Tom Boonen (BEL) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 13h.21.30

.2. Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin at 31

.3. Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP) Sky at 34

.4. Gert Steegmans (BEL) Omega Pharma at 36

.5. Bernhard Eisel (AUT) Sky at 45