Grands Prix Cyclistes de Montréal 2017 [FULL RACE]

September 10, 2017

Grands Prix Cyclistes de Montréal 2017 – Montréal : 205,7 km

The 2017 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is a road cycling one-day race that took place on 10 September. It was the 8th edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the 34th event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.

Diego Ulissi (UAE Emirates) outsprinted his breakaway companions to win the GP de Montreal Sunday, crossing the line ahead of Jesus Herrada (Movistar) and Tom-Jelte Slagter (Cannondale-Drapac) for the victory.

Ulissi joined the six-man move that got away late in the race and then countered a lead out by Tony Gallopin (Lotto Soudal) to take the win.

“Last year I was third after two great champions, Peter Sagan and Greg Van Avermaet,” Ulissi said. “This year, I tried to be a little bit braver. Trying to attack earlier, trying to go for the victory, and I got it.”

Ulissi was in the final move with Gallopin, Herrada, Slagter, Jan Bakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) an Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) that escaped in the closing kilometres of the one-day WorldTour race. As Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) watched each other in the first chase group, Ulissi et al bore down on the finish with just a handful of seconds to spare.

Gallopin had a small gap heading tint the final 180-degree corner before the finish, and the Frenchman continued to lead the pace as the others caught his slipstream. Bakelants was first to jump off Gallopin’s wheel, but the AG2R rider faded well before the line as Ulissi surged, followed by Herrda and Slagter. Bakelants finished fourth, followed by Mollema. Gallopin was sixth.

“I was really confident,” Ulissi said. “After the Tour de France, my first Tour de France, I worked really hard on trying to get my condition to the max. This race was my big season goal. My teammates did a really good job, Valerio Conti and Marco Marcato, they worked really hard pulling back the breakaway. In the final, I knew I was fast in this kind of finish so I played my card and then everything worked out.”

How it unfolded

Sunny, comfortable conditions greeted riders at the start of the 205.7km race.

Canadian road champion Matteo Dal-Cin, riding for the Canadian national selection, and Benjamin Perry (Israel Cycling Academy) attacked the peloton within the first 200 metres of racing to immediately form the day’s first major breakaway. The pack was content to give the pair some breathing room, with the escapees working their way to a three-minute gap by the end of the first of 17, 12.1-kilometre laps on the Montreal circuit.

By the end of the second lap the advantage was up to around five minutes, with Cannondale-Drapac moving to the front to take control of the race. A move to the front by UAE Team Emirates forced a surprising early split on the demanding Côte Camillien Houde, with Van Avermaet and Matthews in the front group and Sagan finding himself on the wrong side of the gap, but the pack was back together again as the next lap got underway. The pressure from behind put inroads into the break’s advantage, with the lead of Dal-Cin and Perry down cut to two minutes briefly before growing again to four after the regrouping.

The next several laps saw the gap very gradually fall with little change in the race scenario until the seventh lap, when Sagan hit the front on a tricky descent and managed to force a small gap to the pack. His cheeky move was short-lived and ultimately came to nothing, but it spelled bad news for the two off the front, spurring the pack into a higher gear.With 30 kilometres to go, the peloton caught Dal-Cin and Perry.

Team Sky’s Ian Boswell was the next to jump, with Dimension Data’s Natnael Berhane moving to join him. The pair linked up on the 13th lap and rode to a gap of nearly a minute. Michael Albasini (Orica-Scott) and Edward Ravasi (UAE Team Emirates) bridged, but the peloton was not far off. The move was reeled in with around 40 kilometres to go.

Ulissi’s group escaped the bunch next, but the peloton was feeling stingy toward the end of the race and kept the new leaders in check just a dozen seconds behind. Sagan and Van Avermaet were waiting to pounce when the leaders were caught, but neither rider wanted to get caught out doing all the work to bring them back.

Up front, Gallopin jumped out of the small lead group with 1,500 metres to go and got a small gap, while Orica-Scott took up the chase behind. Mollema worked in the lead group to bring Gallopin back, making contact with less than 1km to go and setting up the sprint from the breakaway

Results :
1 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 5:22:29
2 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team
3 Tom-Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
4 Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:06
6 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0:00:11
7 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:16
8 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
11 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
12 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
13 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Quick-Step Floors
14 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
15 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
16 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale
17 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-Scott
18 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data
19 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
20 Sergio Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky
21 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) FDJ
22 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal
23 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-Scott
24 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac
25 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:25
26 Grega Bole (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:33
27 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Orica-Scott 0:00:55
28 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:01:15
29 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:17
30 Jack Bauer (NZl) Quick-Step Floors
31 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team
32 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:31
33 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 0:01:34
34 Jasha Sutterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 0:01:38
35 Pieter Serry (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:40
36 Julien Vermote (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
37 Dennis Van Winden (Ned) Israel Cycling Academy
38 Paul Martens (Ger) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
39 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
40 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin
41 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
42 Antoine Duchesne (Can) CAN
43 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott
44 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
45 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Sky
46 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Astana Pro Team
47 Michael Schar (Swi) BMC Racing Team
48 Winner Andrew Anacona (Col) Movistar Team
49 Andrey Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team
50 Lars Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
51 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
52 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Team Sky
53 Cyril Gautier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:53
54 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:55
55 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:16
56 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Sunweb
57 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:55
58 Alex Howes (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
59 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal
60 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
61 Jay Mc Carthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
62 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida
63 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Orica-Scott
64 Jose Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team
65 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
66 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-Scott
67 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data
68 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 0:05:08
69 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
70 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
71 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
72 Alexey Vermeulen (USA) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
73 Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
74 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
75 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
76 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
77 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
78 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) Bora-Hansgrohe
79 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
80 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Team Sky
81 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
82 Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col) Team Sky
83 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
84 Moreno Moser (Ita) Astana Pro Team
85 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
86 Bram Tankink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
87 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) Cannondale-Drapac
88 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
89 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:07:50
90 Jack Burke (Can) Canada 0:09:49
91 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) FDJ 0:09:51
92 Twan Castelijns (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
93 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) FDJ
94 Victor De La Parte (Spa) Movistar Team
95 Nuno Bico (Por) Movistar Team
96 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Dimension Data
97 Bruno Langlois (Can) Canada
98 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Orica-Scott
99 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:10:00
100 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:11:03
101 Gregory Daniel (USA) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
DNF Amael Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team
DNF Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team
DNF Manuel Senni (Ita) BMC Racing Team
DNF Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
DNF Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky
DNF Philip Deignan (Irl) Team Sky
DNF Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
DNF Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Sunweb
DNF Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Sunweb
DNF Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Sunweb
DNF Ruben Plaza (Spa) Orica-Scott
DNF Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
DNF Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale
DNF Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
DNF Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Angel Vicioso Arcos (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
DNF Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
DNF Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Drapac
DNF Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
DNF Kristijan Ðurasek (Cro) UAE Team Emirates
DNF Edward Ravasi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
DNF Ben Swift (GBr) UAE Team Emirates
DNF Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Borut Bozic (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
DNF Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
DNF Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
DNF Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
DNF Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ
DNF Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ
DNF Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ
DNF Léo Vincent (Fra) FDJ
DNF Tyler Farrar (USA) Dimension Data
DNF Ben O’connor (Aus) Dimension Data
DNF Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
DNF Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
DNF Ryan Anderson (Can) Canada
DNF Pier-Andre Cote (Can) Canada
DNF Alexander Cowan (Can) Canada
DNF Matteo Dal-Cin (Can) Canada
DNF Marc-Antoine Soucy (Can) Canada
DNF Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Krists Neilands (Lat) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Mihkel Raim (Est) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Guy Sagiv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Tyler Williams (USA) Israel Cycling Academy