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2022 GP Cycliste de Montréal (World Tour), Canada

11th edition: Sunday, September 11, 2022

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

18 x 12.3 km circuits = 221.4 km

The 2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is a circuit race with a challenging course. It's 18 laps of 12.3 km with three climbs, totaling 221.4 km. The race ends with an uphill finish on Avenue du Parc.

Tadej Pogacar wins the GP de Montréal. Getty pictures

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Weather at the race city of Montréal at 12:30 PM, local time: 26C (79F), partly cloudy, with the wind from southeast at 5 km/hr (3 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain.

The climbs:

• Côte Camilien-Houde: 1.8 km long @ 8% average gradient
• Côte de la Polytechnique: 780 meters @ 6%
• Avenue du Parc: 560 meters @ 4%

The race: Here's the report from third-place Andea Bagioli's Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team.

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl concluded the Canadian weekend with another impressive display at the hardest of the two World Tour one-day races. Taking in 18 classified climbs and over 4000 vertical meters, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal was again animated by a breakaway until the last two laps, when the race properly came to life.

Around twenty kilometers from the finish, two riders moved clear and established a 40-second gap over the peloton, an action that promised a lot only to be reeled in on the last lap. That was when the race-winning move formed, five riders taking off on the penultimate ascent of the day. Andrea Bagioli was there for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, helping the group extend their advantage to an insurmountable gap that allowed the quintet to play a cat-and-mouse game on the finishing stretch.

Despite being the most inexperienced of the five, Bagioli played it smart and did a great sprint at the end of the 221.4km race against his more seasoned opponents, taking a well-deserved third in Montreal, and with it, his best result since turning pro in a World Tour one-day event.

“Everything happened on the last lap, and when the attacks of the favourites came I sensed it could be the right moment to go, so I went and did my best to stay there. I felt good despite this demanding course, one of the hardest of the season, and in the sprint I gave everything. I am content with my podium, it’s a good result going into the last weeks of the season, and I hope to come back here one day and win it.”

Complete results:

221.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 36.938 km/hr

2022 GP de Montreal map & profile:

GP de Montreal map & profile

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