2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

September 2014 2013 UCI World Tour File:Omega Sky (9781712963).jpg 26 28 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 15 September 2013 1 205.7 km 5h 20' 07" Peter Sagan SVK CAN 2013 Simone Ponzi ITA AST 2013 Ryder Hesjedal CAN GRS 2013 2012 2014 The 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is the fourth edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 15 September 2013, over a distance of 205.7 km 1 on, starting and finishing in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. It was the 26th event of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The race is one of only two events which are part of the World Tour calendar in North America, the other one being the 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec contested two days prior. Teams The race is held under the auspices of the UCI World Tour, and all nineteen UCI ProTeams are invited automatically. There is also one wildcard invitation, taken byEUC 2012. A Canadian national squad also competed in the race, and as such, formed the event's 21-team peloton. The 21 teams that competed in the race were: 22em ALM 2013 AST 2013 RAB 2013b BMC 2013 Canada (national team) † CAN 2013 EUS 2013 FDJ 2013b GRS 2013 KAT 2013 LAM 2013 LTB 2013 MOV 2013 OPQ 2013 OGE 2013 RLT 2013 EUC 2013 † SAX 2013 SKY 2013 VCD 2013 Course The race consisted of 17 laps of a circuit 12.1 km 1 on in length, and followed the same path as the 2011 edition. The circuit, around the main campus of the Université de Montréal, was well-suited for climbers and punchers with three climbs per lap. The finish was on an uphill climb with a small gradient of 4%, that was located on Avenue du Parc. There was a sharp, 180 degrees bend to the right situated 500 meters away from the line. The total vertical climb of the race was 3,893 metres.http://gpcqm.ca/uploads/pdf/GPC_MTL_PARCOURS_EN.pdf PDF 11 September 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal Grand Prix Cycliste Québec-Montréal Parcours The major difficulties were: Kilometre 2: Côte Camilien-Houde: 1,8 kilometres, average gradient of 8% Kilometre 6: Côte de la Polytechnque: 780 metres, average gradient of 6% with a pass of 200 metres at 11% Kilometre 11: Avenue du Parc: 560 metres, average gradient of 4% Results CyclistTeamTime UCI World TourPoints 1 Peter Sagan SVK CAN 2013 5h 20' 07" 80 2 Simone Ponzi ITA AST 2013 + 4"603 Ryder Hesjedal CAN GRS 2013 + 4"504 Greg Van Avermaet BEL BMC 2013 + 7"405 Filippo Pozzato ITA LAM 2013 + 7"306 Rui Costa POR MOV 2013 + 7"227 Enrico Gasparotto ITA AST 2013 + 7"148 Lars Petter Nordhaug NOR RAB 2013b + 9"109 Ion Izagirre ESP EUS 2013 + 9"610 Jan Bakelants BEL RLT 2013 + 9"2 References External links http://gpcqm.ca/en/home/ Photos of the race 2013 Category:2013 UCI World Tour Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal Category:2013 in Montreal