Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

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Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
Race details
DateSeptember
RegionMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Local name(s)Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI World Tour
TypeOne-day race
OrganiserÉvenements GPCQM (AA+ EVT inc)
Race directorJoseph Limare
Web sitegpcqm.ca Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition2010 (2010)
Editions12
First winner Robert Gesink (NED)
Most wins Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) (2)
Most recent Adam Yates (GBR)

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is a one-day professional bicycle road race held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first edition was held on September 12, 2010 as the final event in the 2010 UCI ProTour.

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, held two days earlier, are collectively known as the "Laurentian Classics".[1] In 2014, Simon Gerrans became the first to achieve the "Laurentian Double" by winning both the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in the same year (although Robert Gesink was a winner in Montréal in 2010 and Québec in 2013). In 2018, Michael Matthews became the second cyclist to achieve this double.[2]

Iterations of the circuit have been used for the 1974 UCI Road World Championships,[3] when Eddy Merckx won, and the 1976 Summer Olympics. The 1988 to 1992 Grand Prix des Amériques, part of the UCI Road World Cup from 1989 to 1992, also used a similar route in the same area.[4]

The 2010 race passing boul. Édouard-Monpetit

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, the event will resume September 2022 with races in Quebec City on September 9 and in Montreal on September 11.[5]

Route

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is not like many single day events, a point to point race, but a circuit based race. The riders race for 18 laps on a 12.3 km long circuit. Each lap of the circuit requires completing four climbs on the slopes around Mount Royal: Côte Camilien-Houde (1.8 km long and 8% average grade), Côte de la Polytechnique (780m long and 6% average grade) and Avenue du Parc (560m long and 4% average grade) and as of 2022 the new section on Pagnuelo street (534m long at 7.5% average grade) The finish is uphill on the Avenue du Parc.

The total cumulative climb is 4842 m as of 2022 with the new configuration, similar to that found in a mountain stage in the Tour de France, though at a lower altitude.[6]

Winners

Year Country Rider Team
2010  Netherlands Robert Gesink Rabobank
2011  Portugal Rui Costa Movistar Team
2012  Norway Lars Petter Nordhaug Team Sky
2013  Slovakia Peter Sagan Cannondale
2014  Australia Simon Gerrans Orica–GreenEDGE
2015  Belgium Tim Wellens Lotto–Soudal
2016  Belgium Greg Van Avermaet BMC Racing Team
2017  Italy Diego Ulissi UAE Team Emirates
2018  Australia Michael Matthews Team Sunweb
2019  Belgium Greg Van Avermaet CCC Team
2020–2021 No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic[7]
2022  Slovenia Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates
2023  Great Britain Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates

Multiple winners

Wins Rider Editions
2  Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) 2016, 2019

Wins per country

Wins Country
3  Belgium
2  Australia
1  Italy
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Slovenia
 Slovakia
 United Kingdom

References

  1. ^ "The Recon Ride Podcast: GP Québec + GP Montréal 2016". 2016-09-07.
  2. ^ "Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montréal bring WorldTour to Canada". CyclingNews. 7 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Le grand prix cycliste des Amériques". La Presse. 1989-08-06.
  4. ^ "Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec et de Montréal - Preview". CyclingNews. 7 September 2022.
  5. SportsNet1
    , "UCI Pro Tour Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal", airdate: 2014 September 14
  6. ^ "GP Québec and Montréal cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic". CyclingNews. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

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