La Roue Tourangelle 2022 [FULL RACE]

March 27, 2022

La Roue Tourangelle 2022 – Château-Renault – Tours : 202 km

La Roue Tourangelle is one of 16 one-day races to make up the wider French Road Cycling Cup – a year-long, points based competition. Since its debut edition in 2002, the race has routinely fallen in late March and slap bang in the middle of the Spring Classics season. While it’s a little too young to be considered a Classic itself, it does often follow a hilly route that heavily favours the one-day racing specialists. The exact route changes every year, but it almost always finishes in the city of Tours – the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region.

Nacer Bouhanni (Arkéa-Samic) won La Roue Tourangelle on Sunday in Tours. He latched onto the wheels of a three-rider Cofidis train and launched his final move in the final 200 metres, coming around Bryan Coquard, who finished second. Sandy Dujardin (TotalEnergies) secured the final spot on the podium.

It was the 70th career victory for 31-year-old Frenchman, who finished earlier this week at Brugge-De Panne.

“We were outnumbered at the start compared to the other teams,” Bouhanni noted on the six-rider squad at the 202km race. “We put Kévin Ledanois to drive after 100 kilometers. This race was complicated with the series of bumps in the final, but the most important thing for me was that I got to the sprint, even if I wasn’t taken.

“It was necessary to lock the cobbled parts until the arrival on the final circuit. Kévin Vauquelin, who took a last big stint to come back to the breakaway, was very important, as was Alan Riou. Laurent Pichon and Kévin Vauquelin did a great job on the last lap.”

Results :
1 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Arkea-Samsic 4:39:03
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis
3 Sandy Dujardin (Fra) TotalEnergies
4 Thomas Boudat (Fra) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
5 Sasha Weemaes (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
6 Bram Welten (Ned) Groupama-FDJ
7 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
8 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) TotalEnergies
9 Robin Froidevaux (Swi) Swiss Racing Academy
10 Emmanuel Morin (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
11 Hugo Page (Fra) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
12 Barnabás Peák (Hun) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
13 Alex Baudin (Fra) Swiss Racing Academy
14 Gerben Thijssen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
15 Andréa Mifsud (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
16 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ
17 Angel Fuentes Paniego (Spa) Burgos-BH
18 Aritz Bagües Kalparsoro (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
19 Jérémy Leveau (Fra) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
20 Maël Guégan (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
21 Jens Reynders (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
22 Lawrence Naesen (Bel) AG2R Citroen Team
23 Sergio Roman Martin Galan (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
24 Maxime Urruty (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
25 Colin Joyce (USA) Human Powered Health
26 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis
27 Léo Danès (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
28 Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkea-Samsic
29 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
30 Flavien Maurelet (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
31 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) TotalEnergies
32 Syver Wærsted (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
33 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
34 Filippo Tagliani (Ita) Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli
35 Tony Hurel (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
36 Aloïs Charrin (Fra) Swiss Racing Academy
37 Yannis Voisard (Swi) Swiss Racing Academy
38 Anthony Maldonado (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
39 Gilles De Wilde (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
40 Julian Mertens (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:11
41 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:13
42 Axel Mariault (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
43 Fabien Grellier (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:00:19
44 Valentin Ferron (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:00:41
45 Tom Devriendt (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:00:46
46 Kamiel Bonneu (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:00:57
47 Enzo Paleni (Fra) Groupama-FDJ Continental 0:01:39
48 Yesid Albeiro Pira (Col) Caja Rural – Seguros RGA
49 Joris Delbove (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
50 Mattia Bais (Ita) Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli
51 Mario Aparicio Muñoz (Spa) Burgos-BH
52 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ
53 Paul Lapeira (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
54 Valentin Paret-Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team
55 Simon Dalby (Den) Uno-X Dare Development Team
56 Laurent Pichon (Fra) Arkea-Samsic 0:01:44
57 Alan Riou (Fra) Arkea-Samsic
58 Valentin Tabellion (Fra) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole 0:02:03
59 Juan Fernando Calle Hurtado (Col) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
60 Eliot Lietaer (Bel) B&B Hotels-KTM
61 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
62 Victor Langellotti (Mon) Burgos-BH
63 Alan Jousseaume (Fra) TotalEnergies
64 Jonas Abrahamsen (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:02:24
65 Franck Bonnamour (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM 0:02:30
66 Tristan Delacroix (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
67 Sindre Kulset (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:02:40
68 Paul Ourselin (Fra) TotalEnergies
69 Jean Goubert (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur 0:02:43
70 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ
71 Anthony Jullien (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:02:59
72 Petr Kelemen (Cze) Swiss Racing Academy 0:03:21
73 Iver Skaarseth (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
74 Thibault Ferasse (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM 0:03:42
75 Calum Johnston (GBr) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
76 Eddy Fine (Fra) Cofidis
77 Ricardo Zurita Garcia (Spa) Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli
78 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Cofidis
79 Tuur Dens (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
80 Julius Johansen (Den) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
81 Eduard-Michael Grosu (Rom) Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli
82 David Gonzalez Lopez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
83 Nicolas Debeaumarché (Fra) St Michel – Auber93 0:04:24
84 Jonathan Couanon (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur
85 Clément Davy (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:04:29
86 Nicolas Prodhomme (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team
87 Miguel Heidemann (Ger) B&B Hotels-KTM
88 Emiel Vermeulen (Bel) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole 0:05:23
89 Thomas Denis (Fra) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
90 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Arkea-Samsic
91 August Jensen (Nor) Human Powered Health
92 Gage Hecht (USA) Human Powered Health
93 Mihkel Räim (Est) Burgos-BH
94 Paul Hennequin (Fra) Nice Metropole Cote d’Azur 0:06:13
95 Raphael Parisella (Can) B&B Hotels-KTM 0:09:57
96 Maxime Chevalier (Fra) B&B Hotels-KTM
97 Oscar Pelegri Ferrandis (Spa) Burgos-BH
98 Jules Hesters (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
99 Pier Andre Cote (Can) Human Powered Health
100 Juan Antonio Lopez-Cozar Jaimez (Spa) Burgos-BH
101 Josu Etxeberria Azpilikueta (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
102 Axel Zingle (Fra) Cofidis 0:12:05
103 Florian Richard Andrade (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique 0:12:16
104 Jordan Jegat (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
105 Louis Richard (Fra) Team U Nantes Atlantique
106 Evaldas Siskevicius (Ltu) Go Sport-Roubaix Lille Meropole
107 Gabriel Muller (Fra) Burgos-BH
108 Jakob Klahre (Swi) Swiss Racing Academy
109 Kristian Kulset (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:12:21
110 Erlend Blikra (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:12:27
111 Loris Trastour (Fra) Swiss Racing Academy 0:14:39
DNF Jason Tesson (Fra) St Michel-Auber 93
DNF Thomas Champion (Fra) Cofidis
DNF Didier Merchan (Col) Drone Hopper – Androni Giocattoli