Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is a one-day professional bicycle road race held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first edition was held on September 12, 2010 as the final event in the 2010 UCI ProTour.

Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

2024 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
Race details
Date	September
Region	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Local name(s)	Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI World Tour
Type	One-day race
Organiser	Évenements GPCQM (AA+ EVT inc)
Race director	Joseph Limare
Web site	gpcqm.ca
History
First edition	2010 (2010)
Editions	13
First winner	Robert Gesink (NED)
Most wins	Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)  Tadej Pogačar (SLO) (2)
Most recent	Tadej Pogačar (SLO)

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, held two days earlier, are collectively known as the "Laurentian Classics".^[1] In 2014, Simon Gerrans became the first to achieve the "Laurentian Double" by winning both the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in the same year. In 2018, Michael Matthews became the second cyclist to achieve this.^[2]

The race uses a hilly circuit around Mount Royal, similar to that used at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships, 1976 Summer Olympics and other previous races. In 2024, organisers noted that they wished to stage a women's race in future, potentially as part of the UCI Women's World Tour.^[3]

The peloton descending Mont Royal during the 2019 edition

Route

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is not like many single day events, a point to point race, but a circuit based race. The riders race for 18 laps on a 12.3 kilometres (7.6 mi) long circuit. Each lap of the circuit requires completing four climbs on the slopes around Mount Royal: Côte Camilien-Houde (1.8 km long and 8% average grade), Côte de la Polytechnique (780m long and 6% average grade) and Avenue du Parc (560m long and 4% average grade) and (as of 2022) the new section on Pagnuelo street (534m long at 7.5% average grade). The finish is uphill on the Avenue du Parc.

The race has 4,842 metres (15,886 ft) of cumulative climbing, similar to that found in a mountain stage in the Tour de France, though at a lower altitude.^[4]

Iterations of the circuit have been used for:

• 1974 UCI Road World Championships, when Eddy Merckx won^[5]
• 1976 Summer Olympics^[6]
• Grand Prix des Amériques, held between 1989 and 1992, part of the UCI Road World Cup^[7]
• Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal, held between 1998 and 2009, part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup^[6]

Winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2010	Netherlands	Robert Gesink	Rabobank
2011	Portugal	Rui Costa	Movistar Team
2012	Norway	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Team Sky
2013	Slovakia	Peter Sagan	Cannondale
2014	Australia	Simon Gerrans	Orica–GreenEDGE
2015	Belgium	Tim Wellens	Lotto–Soudal
2016	Belgium	Greg Van Avermaet	BMC Racing Team
2017	Italy	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates
2018	Australia	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb
2019	Belgium	Greg Van Avermaet	CCC Team
2020–2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic[8]
2022	Slovenia	Tadej Pogačar	UAE Team Emirates
2023	Great Britain	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates
2024	Slovenia	Tadej Pogačar	UAE Team Emirates

Multiple winners

Wins	Rider	Editions
2	Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)	2016, 2019
	Tadej Pogačar (SLO)	2022, 2024

Wins per country

Wins	Country
3	Belgium
2	Australia  Slovenia
1	Italy  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Slovakia  United Kingdom

References

1. "The Recon Ride Podcast: GP Québec + GP Montréal 2016". 2016-09-07. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
2. "Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (CAN)". UCI Pro Tour. 2010-09-12. Archived from the original on 2012-12-17. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
3. Drouin, Simon (2024-04-25). "Grands Prix de Québec et de Montréal: Les meilleures d'ici rêvent d'une version féminine" [Quebec and Montreal Grand Prix: The best here dream of a women's version]. La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2025-02-03. Une version féminine des Grands Prix cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal est un souhait partagé par les organisateurs. « C'est plus qu'un projet, c'est un rêve », soutient Sébastien Arsenault, PDG des GPCQM. Il note que le mois de septembre est ouvert dans le calendrier du WorldTour féminin, autour des mêmes dates que les compétitions masculines. [A female version of the Quebec City and Montreal Cycling Grands Prix is a wish shared by the organizers. "It's more than a project, it's a dream," says Sébastien Arsenault, CEO of the GPCQM. He notes that the month of September is open in the calendar of the women's WorldTour, around the same dates as the men's competitions.]
4. SportsNet1, "UCI Pro Tour Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal", airdate: 2014 September 14
5. "Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montréal bring WorldTour to Canada". CyclingNews. 7 September 2012.
6. "www.cyclingnews.com presents the 6th Montreal World Cup". autobus.cyclingnews.com. 31 May 2003. Retrieved 2025-02-03. The race uses most of the course of the 1974 World road championships (won by Eddy Merckx) and the 1976 Olympic games road race (won by the Swedish Bernt Johansson).
7. Cantin, Philippe (1989-08-06). "Le grand prix cycliste des Amériques". La Presse. pp. 8–9.
8. "GP Québec and Montréal cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic". CyclingNews. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

External links

• Official website
• Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal palmares at Cycling Archives (archived)