GP Cycliste de Montréal (World Tour), Canada
5th edition: Sunday, September 14, 2014
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal podium history | GP Cycliste de Québec | 2015 edition
205.7 km
The 2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is a circuit race with a challenging course. In 2014 it's 17 laps of 12.1 km with three climbs, totaling 205.7 km. The race ends with an uphill finish on Avenue du Parc.
The climbs:
- Côte Camilien-Houde: 1.8 km long @ 8% average gradient
- Côte de la Polytechnique: 780 meters @ 6%
- Avenue du Parc: 560 @ 4%
Simon Gerrans wins the 2014 GP de Montréal. Orica-GreenEdge photo.
The Race: Canada's pair of late season World Tour races, the GP de Québec and GP de Montréal, are called the Laurentian Classics. Until today, no rider has been able to win both races in the same year. Simon Gerrans has done it, winning both races with a punch that makes him a serious contender for the World Cahmpionships later this month.
The day's break went away on the first lap and there were escapees, notably World Champion Rui Costa, dangling off the front until the final kilometers. But Orica-GreenEdge still had a lot of firepower and wasn't afraid to use it.
The Australian team first worked to unify the peloton and then gave Gerrans a perfect leadout.
After the race Gerrans had this to say, “I couldn’t have asked any more of the team again today. We set out a plan at the start of the day, everyone followed it perfectly and the race unfolded exactly as we wanted.
“To still have four or five teammates there coming into the final was amazing so I am just really happy to be able to finish off some great teamwork again.”
The podium, from left: Rui Costa, Simon Gerrans, Tony Gallopin. Photo James Startt/GPCQM
Complete Results:
151 starters, 109 classified finishers.
Winner's average speed: 38.040 km/hr
| 1 | Simon Gerrans | ORICA GreenEDGE | 5hr 24min 2sec |
| 2 | Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa | LAMPRE - MERIDA | |
| 3 | Tony Gallopin | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 4 | Ramunas Navardauskas | GARMIN SHARP | |
| 5 | Romain Bardet | AG2R LA MONDIALE | |
| 6 | Tom Dumoulin | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | |
| 7 | Greg Van Avermaet | BMC RACING TEAM | |
| 8 | Jonathan Hivert | BELKIN-PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 9 | Enrico Gasparotto | ASTANA PRO TEAM | |
| 10 | Bauke Mollema | BELKIN-PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 11 | Cyril Gautier | TEAM EUROPCAR | |
| 12 | Tom-Jelte Slagter | GARMIN SHARP | |
| 13 | Petr Vakoc | OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK-STEP | |
| 14 | Jesus Herrada | MOVISTAR TEAM | |
| 15 | Jelle Vanendert | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 16 | Sep Vanmarcke | BELKIN-PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 17 | Simon Geschke | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | |
| 18 | Francesco Gavazzi | ASTANA PRO TEAM | |
| 19 | Pierrick Fedrigo | FDJ.fr | |
| 20 | Davide Formolo | CANNONDALE | |
| 21 | Daryl Impey | ORICA GreenEDGE | |
| 22 | Michael Rogers | TINKOFF-SAXO | @ 7 seconds |
| 23 | Jan Bakelants | OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK-STEP | |
| 24 | Tim Wellens | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 25 | Laurent Pichon | FDJ.fr | |
| 26 | Michael Woods | ÉQUIPE CANADA TEAM | |
| 27 | Simon Spilak | TEAM KATUSHA | |
| 28 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC RACING TEAM | |
| 29 | Steven Kruijswijk | BELKIN-PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 30 | Kevin Reza | TEAM EUROPCAR | |
| 31 | Alex Howes | GARMIN SHARP | 17" |
| 32 | Egor Silin | TEAM KATUSHA | |
| 33 | Michael Albasini | ORICA GreenEDGE | 20" |
| 34 | Jean-Christophe Peraud | AG2R LA MONDIALE | 27" |
| 35 | Tejay Van Garderen | BMC RACING TEAM | 38" |
| 36 | Simon Yates | ORICA GreenEDGE | 50" |
| 37 | Frank Schleck | TREK FACTORY RACING | |
| 38 | Pieter Weening | ORICA GreenEDGE | 1'01" |
| 39 | Jens Keukeleire | ORICA GreenEDGE | |
| 40 | Fabian Wegmann | GARMIN SHARP | 1'06" |
| 41 | Georg Preidler | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | |
| 42 | Peter Stetina | BMC RACING TEAM | |
| 43 | Pawel Polianski | TINKOFF-SAXO | |
| 44 | Kristijan Durasek | LAMPRE - MERIDA | |
| 45 | Cristiano Salerno | CANNONDALE | |
| 46 | Manuele Mori | LAMPRE - MERIDA | |
| 47 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | TEAM SKY | |
| 48 | Gianni Meersman | OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK-STEP | |
| 49 | Marco Marcato | CANNONDALE | |
| 50 | Aleksei Tcatevich | TEAM KATUSHA | 1'18" |
| 51 | Daan Olivier | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | 1'26" |
| 52 | Jesper Hansen | TINKOFF-SAXO | |
| 53 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | MOVISTAR TEAM | |
| 54 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | |
| 55 | Jan Polanc | LAMPRE - MERIDA | 1'32" |
| 56 | Riccardo Zoidl | TREK FACTORY RACING | 1'39" |
| 57 | Julian Alaphilippe | OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK-STEP | |
| 58 | Davide Villella | CANNONDALE | 1'58" |
| 59 | Christophe Kern | TEAM EUROPCAR | 2'14" |
| 60 | Yoann Offredo | FDJ.fr | |
| 61 | Christopher Sutton | TEAM SKY | |
| 62 | Matej Mohoric | CANNONDALE | |
| 63 | Janez Brajkovic | ASTANA PRO TEAM | |
| 64 | Matti Breschel | TINKOFF-SAXO | 2'37" |
| 65 | Thomas Damuseau | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | 4'00" |
| 66 | Pavel Kochetkov | TEAM KATUSHA | |
| 67 | Hugo Houle | AG2R LA MONDIALE | 4'33" |
| 68 | Guillaume Bonnafond | AG2R LA MONDIALE | |
| 69 | Christian Meier | ORICA GreenEDGE | |
| 70 | Ryan Anderson | ÉQUIPE CANADA TEAM | |
| 71 | Rafael Valls | LAMPRE - MERIDA | 4'39" |
| 72 | Ruben Plaza | MOVISTAR TEAM | |
| 73 | Bruno Pires | TINKOFF-SAXO | |
| 74 | Gregory Rast | TREK FACTORY RACING | |
| 75 | Nelson Oliveira | LAMPRE - MERIDA | |
| 76 | Tom Danielson | GARMIN SHARP | |
| 77 | Michael Schar | BMC RACING TEAM | |
| 78 | Amael Moinard | BMC RACING TEAM | |
| 79 | Sébastien Minard | AG2R LA MONDIALE | |
| 80 | Louis Vervaeke | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 81 | Laurent Didier | TREK FACTORY RACING | |
| 82 | Nicki Sorensen | TINKOFF-SAXO | |
| 83 | Stig Broeckx | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 84 | Yukiya Arashiro | TEAM EUROPCAR | |
| 85 | Matthew Busche | TREK FACTORY RACING | |
| 86 | Robert Kiserlovski | TREK FACTORY RACING | |
| 87 | Gert Dockx | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 88 | Dennis Vanendert | LOTTO BELISOL | |
| 89 | Salvatore Puccio | TEAM SKY | |
| 90 | Geraint Thomas | TEAM SKY | |
| 91 | Borut Bozic | ASTANA PRO TEAM | |
| 92 | Perrig Quemeneur | TEAM EUROPCAR | |
| 93 | David Tanner | BELKIN-PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 94 | Arnaud Courteille | FDJ.fr | |
| 95 | Benat Intxausti | MOVISTAR TEAM | 5'59" |
| 96 | Jean Marc Marino | CANNONDALE | 6'01" |
| 97 | Bruno Langlois | ÉQUIPE CANADA TEAM | 8'21" |
| 98 | Kevin De Weert | OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK-STEP | |
| 99 | Phil Gaimon | GARMIN SHARP | |
| 100 | Ben Gastauer | AG2R LA MONDIALE | |
| 101 | Jussi Veikkanen | FDJ.fr | |
| 102 | Alexander Kristoff | TEAM KATUSHA | |
| 103 | Evgeny Petrov | TINKOFF-SAXO | |
| 104 | Edward King | CANNONDALE | 9'59" |
| 105 | Ian Boswell | TEAM SKY | |
| 106 | Steele Von Hoff | GARMIN SHARP | |
| 107 | Garrett Mccleod | ÉQUIPE CANADA TEAM | 10'09" |
| 108 | Ryan Roth | ÉQUIPE CANADA TEAM | |
| 109 | Thierry Hupond | TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO | 12'00" |