Wellens Snares Montréal GP
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Sept 2, 2015 – Belgian Tim Wellens beat Britain’s Adam Yates in a sprint finish to win the Montreal Grand Prix on Sunday. It was the 24-year-old Lotto-Soudal rider’s third World Tour victory following success in the Eneco Tour of the Benelux countries the last two years.
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In terrible weather with driving rain, Wellens beat escape companion Yates, of the Australian Orica-GreenEdge team, who had launched hostilities on the final ascent of the Camillien-Houde climb.
But after 205.7km and 17 laps of a street circuit around Montreal, Welllens sprinted to victory with former world champion Rui Costa taking third just two seconds back.
“I like these conditions, there was air. I prefer this to a heatwave,” said Wellens, who succeeded Australian Simon Gerrans as winner.
Results:
1. Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 5:20:09
2. Adam Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge
3. Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 0:00:02
4. Jan Bakelants (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:04
5. Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
6. Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:05
7. Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8. Robert Gesink (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:09
9. Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team
10. Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
11. Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Lotto Soudal
12. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step
13. Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre-Merida
14. Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
15. Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:12
16. Simon Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge
17. Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing
18. Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
19. Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
20. Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0:00:15
21. Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team
22. Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team
23. Michael Woods (Can) Canada
24. Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Movistar Team
25. Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Etixx – Quick-Step
26. Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:19
27. Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:00:39
28. Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:06
29. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha
30. Paul Voss (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 0:01:18