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2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
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2014 UCI World Tour 26 29 2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 14 September 2014 1 205.7 km 5h 24' 27"Kirsten Frattini https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/grand-prix-cycliste-de-montreal-2014/results/ Gerrans wins GP de Montréal Cyclingnews.com Immediate Media Company 14 September 2014 15 August 2020 Simon Gerrans AUS OGE 2014 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 Tony Gallopin FRA LTB 2014 2013 2015
The 2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal was the fifth edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 14 September 2014, over a distance of 205.7 km 1 on, starting and finishing in Montréal. It was the 26th event of the 2014 UCI World Tour season. The race is one of the only two events which are part of the World Tour calendar in North America, the other one being the 2014 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec contested two days earlier.
Teams
As the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. A Canadian national squad also competed in the race, and as such, forming the event's 19-team peloton.
The 19 teams that competed in the race were:
22em
ALM 2014
AST 2014
BEL 2014
BMC 2014
Canada (national team) †
CAN 2014
FDJ 2014
GRS 2014
GIA 2014
KAT 2014
LAM 2014
LTB 2014
MOV 2014
OPQ 2014
OGE 2014
EUC 2014
SKY 2014
SAX 2014
TFR 2014
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 meters.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
CyclistTeamTimeUCI World TourPoints 1 Simon Gerrans AUS OGE 2014 5h 24' 27" 80 2 Rui Costa POR LAM 2014 + 0" 60 3 Tony Gallopin FRA LOT 2014 + 0" 50 4 Ramūnas Navardauskas LTU GRM 2014 + 0" 40 5 Romain Bardet FRA ALM 2014 + 0" 30 6 Tom Dumoulin NED GIA 2014 + 0" 22 7 Greg Van Avermaet BEL BMC 2014 + 0" 14 8 Jonathan Hivert FRA BEL 2014 + 0" 10 9 Enrico Gasparotto ITA AST 2014 + 0" 6 10 Bauke Mollema NED BEL 2014 + 0" 2
References
External links
http://gpcqm.ca/fr/accueil/
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Category:2014 UCI World Tour
Category:2014 in sports in Quebec
Category:2014 in Montreal
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