Tour of Britain stage 5 highlights - Video

Lars Boom (LottoNl-Jumbo)

Lars Boom (LottoNl-Jumbo) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Lars Boom soared into the leader's jersey at the Tour of Britain on Thursday, blasting over the 16km individual time trial by six seconds over LottoNL-Jumbo teammate Victor Campenaerts and seven second in front of former time trial world champion Vasil Kiryienka (Team Sky). BMC Racing's Stefan Küng was fourth at 10 seconds, while another of Boom’s teammates, Jos van Emden, was fifth at 13 seconds. Reigning time trial world champion Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin) was sixth.

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