Uran Wins Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

Last updated : 11 September 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Rigoberto Uran of Etixx Quick Step has won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.

This World Tour race in its sixth edition was over sixteen laps of 12.6kms in Québec City and started with six riders in Roth, De Vos, Benedetti, Quemeneur, Wippert and Lapthorne taking a 7.25 lead after 70kms.

That went out to nine minutes after three laps before a crash saw Team Sky's Berni Eisel go down and break his left arm.

Wippert dropped out of the front group as De Vos took the KOM points for a fifth and sixth time as the peloton started the final seven laps some 4.55 behind the five escapees.

The gap came down to 3.25 as Adam De Vos took this eighth point and was starting to fall rapidly.

Darren Lapthorne was the next to be dropped as De Vos took three more points for being first over the ote des Glacis at laps eleven, twelve and thirteen. 

Benedetti then attacked followd by Roth as the peloton reduced their lead to forty five seconds. A time which allowed Lars Bak (Lotto-Soudal) and Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Katusha) to jump out of the peloton and join Benedetti and Roth on the front.

Benedettti dropped back to the peloton but Rein Taaramae and Brent Bookwalter, joined him as did Alaphilippe, Barguil, Roelandts, Felline, Dillier, Kreuziger and Bardet.

With 180kms gone, the peloton were all back togther and a new attack saw Jan Bakelants (AG2R) lead on the penultmate climb before Jacob Fuglsang and Wilko Kelderman led the way.

They were fifteen seconds ahead witn six kilometres to go as BMC got all their riders together on the front on the peloton in a bid to close them down.

It was a move that proved successful and after attacks by Bakelants, Alaphilippe and Gesink, everyone was together going under the flam rouge.

With five hundred metres to go, Rigoberto Uran of Etixx Quick Step made a move and he got clear to take the win ahead of Michael Matthews, Alexander Kristoff and followed by Tom Jelte Slagter; Diego. Ulissi;  Bauke Mollema;  Philippe Gilbert; Tony Gallopin;  Warren Barguil and Greg Van Avermaet.