Niccolo Bonifazio of Direct Energie won the fifth stage of Paris-Nice as he overtook Slovenia's Jan Tratnik to the finish line in the last metre's of the race from Gannat to La Cote-Saint-Andrea, and sprinted ahead of Ivan Garcia Cortina of Bahrain-McLaren and Peter Sagan of Bora - Hansgrohe. Garcia Cortina and Sagan finished in second and third place.