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2022 GP Cycliste de Québec (World Tour), Canada

11th edition: Friday, September 9, 2022

Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec podium history | GP Cycliste de Montréal | Course map & profile | Start list | 2019 edition (race not run in 2020 & 2021) | 2023 edition

201.6 km total distance: 16 laps of 12.6 km

Benoît Cosnefroy wins a big one. Getty Images

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The race: Winner Benoît Cosnefroy's Team Ag2r-Citroën team posted this

Benoît Cosnefroy:
“It’s incredible! It hasn’t sunk in yet. I had planned to attack exactly there. If that didn’t work out, we had Greg Van Avermaet to do the sprint. I am very happy because I did not necessarily expect to stay away for the last two kilometers. I gave it my all and was able to enjoy the last fifty meters.

“From an average season, I am moving on to an exceptional season. With six second places including the Amstel Gold Race and the Flèche Brabançonne, I was just waiting for this victory and it comes in one of the most beautiful races on the calendar, it’s huge.

“Many thanks to the public and the organization here. The whole international peloton was eager to come back and we are not disappointed.
We will enjoy this and then focus on the Grand Prix de Montréal which suits me even better on paper. We will try to do well there, too.”

Vincent Lavenu:
“I thought Benoît’s attack was daring there, but we know what he’s capable of when he’s at his best. By staying away with the strongest riders in the world chasing him in the last kilometers, he earned a high-level sporting achievement. Very few have managed to do so before on this Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.

“This performance is a notch higher than his victory at the Bretagne Classic in 2021. It places him among the strongest in the international peloton. I am happy that he is raising his arms in victory because with six second places this season, he only needed to win. It was a great Benoît today.”

The number: 2
By winning the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Benoît Cosnefroy has taken a victory in the UCI WorldTour for the second time in his career after the Bretagne Classic in 2021.

This is the first time he has won a pro race outside of France.

This is Benoît Cosnefroy’s first victory this year, and the eleventh for the AG2R CITROËN TEAM this season.

Greg Van Avermaet took 13th place in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec. Having won in 2019, he will defend his title at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal this Sunday.

Complete results:

201.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.156 km/hr

Course map & profile:

2019 GP Quebec map and profile

Start list with back numbers, September 9, 2022: