Tour de Vendée 2022 [LAST 20 KM]

October 2, 2022

Tour de Vendée 2022 – La Roche-sur-Yon – La Roche-sur-Yon : 206,9 km

The Tour de Vendée is the last race in a series of small, one-day races that make up the French Road Cycling Cup, a year-long, points based competition. This race therefore acts as the grand finale to that competition and marks the final chance for a lot of domestic riders to haul themselves up the overall standings, making for one incredibly aggressive and entertaining race. The Tour de Vendée was first held back in 1972 but remained an amateur race until 1979. Since becoming a professional race the route has typically finished in the town of La Roche-sur-Yon, the capital of the Vendée region in west-central France. With 200km of largely flat parcours, culminating with several laps of a lumpy, criterium-like finishing circuit around La Roche-sur-Yon, the course is a playground for the sprinters and puncheurs of the peloton.

Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) won the reduced bunch sprint at Tour de Vendée. The Frenchman took the win ahead of Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) and Luca Mozzato (B&B Hotels-KTM) in La Roche-sur-Yon.

A late-race attack from Andrea Mifsud (Nice Métropole Côte d’Azur) in the last 5km saw the Frenchman gain a small lead but it was a short-lived move and the peloton reeled him in with 3.5km out.

Groupama-FDJ led the race into the final 3km with Arkea-Samsic and B&B Hotels-KTM alongside setting up their respective sprinters for the slightly uphill finish, but it was Cofidis’ Coquard who got the jump to take the victory.

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