Michael Albasini (GreenEDGE) wrapped up overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya as Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) took the win on the final stage.
Frenchman Simon claimed his second stage win of the race in much the same fashion as his first - proving the fastest in a reduced field sprint after an undulating 119.8km test from Badalona to Barcelona.
Francesco Gavazzi (Astana) was second ahead of Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) and Team Sky's Rigoberto Urán, with Albasini rolling in safely in the lead group to maintain his 1 minute 30 second advantage ahead of Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) in the overall standings.
Several probing attacks were made on the final three climbs of the day, but the terrain ultimately was not selective enough and the peloton regrouped before the finish.
Earlier a large breakaway formed but the main group did not allow them to stretch out much of an advantage on such a short stage.
Attacks
With two climbs still to go, Tom Danielson leapt out of the peloton and bridged across to the front of the race, which by then contained only Alexsandr Dyachenko (Astana) as the lone survivor of the breakaway group.
On the penultimate climb - the second category Alt de Tibidabo - Danielson dropped his Kazakh companion while the chasing group splintered behind him as they attempted to control the gap.
Danielson was eventually reeled back in, with Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank) launching a counter-attack on the descent and quickly gaining a comfortable advantage of over a minute.
However, the gap then came down almost as quickly as it went up and the Spaniard was caught well before the finish, paving the way for a few more fruitless attacks on the final climb of the Alt de Vallvidrera.
After a high-speed descent into the finish, Simon struck for home in the closing metres and none of his rivals were able to come around him.
