Greg Van Avermaet took his second win at Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal after he was the fastest out of a group of 20 finishing on the Avenue du Parc.
With the French duo of Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) and Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R La Mondiale) gunning for the line from around 2km out Van Avermaet may have thought his chance of a first WorldTour win for over two years had vanished. However, the Olympic champion sat patiently in the bunch watching and waiting before making his move.
Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) finished second with Ivan Garcia Cortina (Bahrain-Merida) third, while Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) and Michael Valgren (Dimension Data) rounded out the top five.
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— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) September 15, 2019
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2019 results:
| 1 | Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) | 6:09:38 |
| 2 | Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 3 | Ivan Garcia (Bahrain-Merida) | ,, |
| 4 | Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal) | ,, |
| 5 | Michael Valgren (Dimension Data) | ,, |
| 6 | Kristian Sbaragli (Israel Cycling Academy) | ,, |
| 7 | Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) | ,, |
| 8 | Michael Woods (EF Education First) | ,, |
| 9 | Nans Peters (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 10 | Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) | ,, |
| 11 | Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 12 | Mathias Frank (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 13 | Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
| 14 | Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) | ,, |
| 15 | Carlos Betancur (Movistar) | +05” |
| 16 | Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
| 17 | Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R La Mondiale) | +12” |
| 18 | Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) | ,, |
| 19 | Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) | +50” |
| 20 | Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) | ,, |
