GP de Denain 2022 [LAST 15 KM]

March 17, 2022

GP de Denain 2022 – Denain – Denain : 200,3 km

This one-day race has been a mainstay on the annual cycling calendar since its inception in 1959, but it wasn’t until 2018 when its route was reworked to include over 20km of rough, French cobblestones that it started to gain international recognition. For the best part of 60 years, the Grand Prix de Denain has been held on Easter Tuesday and marked the start of Denain’s springtime carnival celebrations. Once a race for the sprinters, the GP de Denain has since transformed itself into a cobbled Classic, a mini Paris-Roubaix if you will. With several sectors that feature on the ‘Hell of the North’ itself, like the Wallers à Haveluy sector, this race has quickly become one of the main testing grounds for prospective Roubaix winners.

Max Walscheid (Cofidis) won the Grand Prix de Denain – Porte du Hainaut from a bunch sprint on Thursday. He held off Dries De Bondt (Alpecin-Fenix) at the line, who took second, followed by Adrien Petit (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) in third.

It was the second podium in two days for the German, who was runner-up at Nokere Koerse on Wednesday.

The race looked like it would come down to a sprint among five breakaway riders, with Ineos Grenadiers having three representatives – Magnus Sheffield, Jhonatan Narváez and Ben Turner – alongside Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) and Damien Touzé (AG2R Citroën). The break had been on the attack for the final 35 kilometres of the 200.3km race, but were caught in the final kilometre to set up Walscheid’s victory.

“I’m incredibly happy we just did the best performance possible and I’m so happy to finish it off. We took already control in the beginning and also Piet Allegaert did a good lead out for me, he brought me to the last 500 metres and then it was just a bloc to the line,” Walscheid said.

“I knew it was a pretty difficult situation and I was a little bit scared we would not catch them back. I have to say thank you to Wanty who also did an incredible team job and were super committed and luckily they brought it back.”

In the race to stay in the WorldTour, Cofidis have been among the winners to avoid relegation, taking the Etoile de Besseges with Benjamin Thomas and two stages and a victory in Tour de la Provence.

“I’m also super happy for our team, we scored a lot of points. My teammates already collected a few victories so I think we can keep this ball rolling.”

Results :
1 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Cofidis 4:42:24
2 Dries De Bondt (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
3 Adrien Petit (Fra) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
4 Pierre Barbier (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
5 Marc Sarreau (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
6 Sandy Dujardin (Fra) TotalEnergies
7 Amaury Capiot (Bel) Arkea-Samsic
8 Samuel Leroux (Fra) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
9 Robbe Ghys (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
10 Bram Welten (Ned) Groupama-FDJ
11 Jonathan Couanon (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
12 William Levy (Den) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
13 Flavien Maurelet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
14 Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates
15 Hugo Page (Fra) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
16 Ward Vanhoof (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
17 Nicolas Debeaumarche (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
18 Karl-Patrick Lauk (Est) Bingoal Pauwels Sauzen WB
19 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
20 Mael Guegan (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
21 Maxime Urruty (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
22 Tom Wirtgen (Lux) Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB
23 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
24 Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkea-Samsic
25 Kim Heiduk (Ger) Ineos Grenadiers
26 Luca Mozzato (Ita) B&B Hotels-KTM
27 Paul Lapeira (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
28 Daniel Martinez Poveda (Col) Ineos Grenadiers
29 Julien Morice (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
30 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00:06
31 Fabian Lienhard (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:10
32 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis 0:00:16
33 Jhonatan Narvaez Prado (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:20
34 Samuel Watson (GBr) Groupama-FDJ Continental 0:00:22
35 Rait Ärm (Est) Groupama-FDJ Continental
36 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma
37 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
38 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
39 Damien Touze (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00:27
40 Ben Turner (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:39
41 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:00:41
42 Magnus Sheffield (USA) Ineos Grenadiers
43 Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:00:47
44 Niki Terpstra (Ned) TotalEnergies 0:01:01
45 Lewis Askey (GBr) Groupama-FDJ
46 Jens Debusschere (Bel) B&B Hotels-KTM 0:01:38
47 Milan Fretin (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:04:08
48 Kenneth Van Rooy (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
49 Martin Urianstad (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
50 Julius Johansen (Den) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
51 David Dekker (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
52 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Cofidis
53 Johnatan Cañaveral Vargas (Col) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
54 Erik Nordsaeter Resell (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
55 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
56 Nicolas Prodhomme (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
57 Lars Saugstad (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
58 Jason Tesson (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
59 Norman Vahtra (Est) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
60 Ayco Bastiaens (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix Development Team
61 Ludovic Robeet (Bel) Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB 0:05:18
62 Dimitri Peyskens (Bel) Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB 0:08:19
63 Joris Delbove (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
64 Markus Pajur (Est) Arkea-Samsic
65 Iver Skaarseth (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
66 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
67 Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
68 Kenneth Vanbilsen (Bel) Cofidis 0:08:23
69 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Cofidis
70 Taco van der Hoorn (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
71 Clément Davy (Fra) Groupama-FDJ