2014 Cholet - Pays de Loire (1.1), France

37th edition: Sunday, March 23, 2014

Cholet-Pays de Loire podium history | 2015 edition |

Cholet - Cholet, 206.0 km

39.41 km/hr

A crash midway through the race created a separation, allowing about a dozen riders to go clear. Tom Van Asbroeck easily won the sprint from the group that had been away for more than a hundred kilometers.

Van Asbroeck's Topsport Vlaanderen team director Walter Planckaert (75 pro victories) said, "This is a great sprinter and we'll be talking about him soon. He's young, but he's improving quickly. He is like Tom Boonen."

For the series of races called the Coup de France, that makes two Belgian victories (Kenneth Vanbilsen in GP La Marseillaise, Tom Van Asbroeck today in Cholet-Pays de Loire) and one French win (Alexis Gougeard yesterday in Classic Loire-Atlantique). Alexis Gougeard leads the Coup de France.

* = Young Rider

Complete Results:

1	* Tom Van Asbroeck	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise	5hr 13min 38sec
2	Sébastien Delfosse	Wallonie - Bruxelles	0:00:00
3	Sébastien Turgot	AG2R La Mondiale	0:00:00
4	Pierrick Fédrigo	FDJ.fr	0:00:00
5	* Benoit Jarrier	Bretagne Séché Environnement	0:00:00
6	Jimmy Engoulvent	Team Europcar	0:00:00
7	Frederik Veuchelen	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	0:00:00
8	Gediminas Bagdonas	AG2R La Mondiale	0:00:06
9	* Arnaud Courteille	FDJ.fr	0:00:10
10	* Thomas Sprengers	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise	0:00:35
11	* Yoann Paillot	Team La Pomme Marseille 13	0:00:36
12	* Julien Duval	Roubaix Lille Metropole	0:01:36
13	* Roman Maikin	Rusvelo	0:01:36
14	Bartlomiej Matysiak	CCC Polsat Polkowice	0:01:36
15	* Erwann Corbel	Bretagne Séché Environnement	0:01:36
16	Andrey Solomennikov	Rusvelo	0:01:36
17	* Rudy Barbier	Roubaix Lille Metropole	0:01:36
18	Sergey Shilov	Lokosphinx	0:01:36
19	Maxime Vantomme	Roubaix Lille Metropole	0:01:36
20	* Christophe Laporte	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	0:01:36
21	Yauheni Hutarovich	AG2R La Mondiale	0:01:36
22	* Tom Dernies	Wallonie - Bruxelles	0:01:36
23	* Angelo Tulik	Team Europcar	0:01:36
24	* Luis Guillermo Mas Bonet	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	0:01:36
25	* Armindo Fonseca	Bretagne Séché Environnement	0:01:39
26	* Charles Planet	Team Novo Nordisk	0:01:39
27	* Igor Frolov	Itera - Katusha	0:01:39
28	Arkimedes Arguelyes	Lokosphinx	0:01:39
29	* Antoine Duchesne	Team Europcar	0:01:39
30	* Nacer Bouhanni	FDJ.fr	0:01:39
31	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise	0:01:39
32	* Wesley Kreder	Wanty-Groupe Gobert	0:01:39
33	Yannick Martinez	Team Europcar	0:01:39
34	* Ruben Fernandez Andujar	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	0:01:39
35	Francis Mourey	FDJ.fr	0:01:39
36	Pierre Luc Perichon	Bretagne Séché Environnement	0:01:47
37	* Alexis Gougeard	AG2R La Mondiale	0:01:51
38	Stéphane Rossetto	BigMat - Auber 93	0:01:58
39	Tom Goovaerts	Veranclassic - Doltcini	0:03:05
40	David Lozano Riba	Team Novo Nordisk	0:03:05
41	* Kirill Pozdnyakov	Rusvelo	0:03:05
42	Jaroslaw Marycz	CCC Polsat Polkowice	0:03:05
43	Adrian Kurek	CCC Polsat Polkowice	0:05:35
44	Benjamin Giraud	Team La Pomme Marseille 13	0:05:53
45	* Dimitri Le Boulch	BigMat - Auber 93	0:07:16
46	* Roman Katyrin	Itera - Katusha	0:07:16
47	Fréderic Brun	BigMat - Auber 93	0:07:16
48	* Laurent Evrard	Wallonie - Bruxelles	0:07:16
49	Fabricio Ferrari	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	0:07:16
50	Giorgio Brambila	Veranclassic - Doltcini	0:07:16
51	Timothy Dupont	Roubaix Lille Metropole	0:07:16

Abandons:

Martijn Verschoor	Team Novo Nordisk
Christopher Williams	Team Novo Nordisk
Guillaume Levarlet	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
* Damien Garcia	Team Differdange - Losch
* Frederik Vandewiele	Veranclassic - Doltcini
* Corrado Lampa	Team Differdange - Losch
Vytautas Kaupas	Team Differdange - Losch
Diego Milan Jimenez	Team Differdange - Losch
Ruben Menendez Velasco	Team Differdange - Losch
* Ildar Arslanov	Itera - Katusha
* Kevin Suarez Martinez	Team Differdange - Losch
* Alexander Foliforov	Itera - Katusha
Lubos Pelanek	Team Differdange - Losch
* Sergey Vdovin	Lokosphinx
* Aleksey Rybalkin	Lokosphinx
* Alexander Vdovin	Lokosphinx
* Evgeny Shalunov	Lokosphinx
Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Polsat Polkowice
Joaquin Sobrino	Team Differdange - Losch
Christophe Riblon	AG2R La Mondiale
Yohann Gené	Team Europcar
Morgan Lamoisson	Team Europcar
Fabrice Jeandesboz	Team Europcar
Laurent Pichon	FDJ.fr
Laurent Mangel	FDJ.fr
* Mikhail Akimov	Itera - Katusha
Sébastien Chavanel	FDJ.fr
* Darijus Dzervus	Veranclassic - Doltcini
Hubert Dupont	AG2R La Mondiale
Julien Bérard	AG2R La Mondiale
Damien Gaudin	AG2R La Mondiale
* Maxim Pokidov	Itera - Katusha
Dmitri Kosyakov	Itera - Katusha
Dmitriy Ignatev	Itera - Katusha
Benoît Vaugrenard	FDJ.fr
Pawel Charucki	CCC Polsat Polkowice
Dmitriy Sokolov	Lokosphinx
* Flavien Dassonville	BigMat - Auber 93
Alo Jakin	BigMat - Auber 93
Franck Vermeulen	Roubaix Lille Metropole
Jean-Lou Paiani	Roubaix Lille Metropole
* Théo Vimpere	BigMat - Auber 93
Jacek Morajko	CCC Polsat Polkowice
* Yannis Yssaad	BigMat - Auber 93
* Grzegorz Stepniak	CCC Polsat Polkowice
* Piotr Gawronski	CCC Polsat Polkowice
* Ilnur Zakarin	Rusvelo
* Ivan Balykin	Rusvelo
* Igor Boev	Rusvelo
Timofey Kritskiy	Rusvelo
* Romain Guillemois	Team Europcar
* Thomas Vaubourzeix	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
Yu Takennouchi	Veranclassic - Doltcini
* Serge De Wortelaer	Veranclassic - Doltcini
* Rick Ottema	Veranclassic - Doltcini
* Maxime Anciaux	Wallonie - Bruxelles
Quentin Bertholet	Wallonie - Bruxelles
Boris Dron	Wallonie - Bruxelles
Steven Tronet	BigMat - Auber 93
* Olivier Chevalier	Wallonie - Bruxelles
Sergey Firsanov	Rusvelo
Julien El Fares	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
Justin Jules	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
* Domingos Goncalves	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
* José Gonçalves	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
Thomas Rostollan	Team La Pomme Marseille 13
* Christophe Premont	Wallonie - Bruxelles
* Joonas Henttala	Team Novo Nordisk - didn't start