Results and standings after Sunday's first stage of Paris-Nice, a 166km run around Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole: Stage 1 1. Sam Bennett (IRL/Deceuninck) 3hrs 51mins 39sec, 2. Arnaud Demare (FRA/FDJ) same time, 3. Mads Pedersen (DEN/TRE) s.t., 4. Jasper Philipsen (BEL/ALP) s.t., 5. Bryan Coquard (FRA/BBH) s.t., 6. Pascal Ackermann (GER/BOR) s.t., 7. Phil Bauhaus (GER/BAH) s.t., 8. Christophe Laporte (FRA/COF) s.t., 9. Andre Greipel (GER/ISR) s.t., 10. Rudy Barbier (FRA/ISR) s.t. Overall standings 1. Sam Bennett (IRL/Deceuninck) 3hrs 51min 28sec, 2. Arnaud Démare (FRA/FDJ) at 04sec, 3. Michael Matthews (AUS/BIK) 05, 4. Mads Pedersen (DEN/TRE) 06, 5. Tiesj Benoot (BEL/DSM) 08, 6. Ben Swift (GBR/INE) 09, 7. Jasper Stuyven (BEL/TRE) 09, 8. Jasper Philipsen (BEL/ALP) 10, 9. Bryan Coquard (FRA/BBH) 10, 10. Pascal Ackermann (GER/BOR) 10. Selected 35. David Gaudu (FRA/FDJ) 10, 38. Guillaume Martin (FRA/COF) 10, 39. Maximilian Schachmann (GER/BOR) 10, 46. Primoz Roglic (SLO/JUM) 10, 49. Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS/AST) 10, 60. Jai Hindley (AUS/DSM) 10, 61. Bob Jungels (LUX/AG2) 10, 80. Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR/INE) 10, 123. Rohan Dennis (AUS/INE) 10. afp