Jakub Mareczko (Team Italy) won the finale stage 7 at the Tour de San Luis in a photo-finish decider ahead of his teammate Elia Viviani following the bunch sprint in San Luis on Sunday. Drapac's Jason Lowndes squeezed in for third place ahead of world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) in fourth.
Dayer Quintana (Movistar) won the overall title of the seven-stage race after two strong performances in the mountains. Eduardo Sepulveda (Fortuneo Vital Concept) finished in second overall, 20 seconds back, while Nairo Quintana (Movistar) finished in third at 35 seconds back.
The 119km circuit-race finale started and finish in San Luis, and took the peloton on a loop out to the route's only ascent over Also Los Puquios before returning to the city streets for a fast, straight run-in to the finish line.
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A breakaway escaped, as it typically does on this stage, with five riders Robin Carpenter (Holowesko Citadel), Elias Tello (Chile), Juan Curuchet (Argentina), Emmanuel Guevara (San Luis) and Mauricio Muller (SEP San Luis).
Their gap hovered at between 40 seconds and one minute, tightly controlled by the teams with powerful sprinters like Team Italy with Viviani, Tinkoff with Sagan and Etixx-QuickStep, who lost star sprinter Fernando Gaviria in the crash two stages earlier, were working for Max Richeze.
The group was back together with 10km to go and several riders tried to take fliers but the blistering pace of the field made it impossible for anyone to get away.
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