Woods, Alaphilippe as well as Simon and Adam Yates return for the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal

MONTRÉAL, Aug. 29, 2023 /CNW/ - Once again this year, the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal (GPCQM) will feature an outstanding slate of riders with, among others, 6 of the top 10 finishers from the most recent Tour de France lining up at the start on September 8 and 10. It will be a top-flight peloton but also one of considerable depth, since in addition to the 18 UCI WorldTeams, the organizers have invited 4 ProTeams along with Team Canada as wild-card entries, for a total of 23 teams and 161 racers from 26 countries on 5 continents—the biggest field since the inception of the GPCQM in 2010.

The competition will be at the very highest level again this year, with 9 stage winners from this year's Tour de France vying for the podium. The headliners include:

• JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (France) (Soudal Quick-Step), the UCI Road World Champion in 2020 and 2021 ;
• ADAM YATES (Great Britain) (UAE Team Emirates), third-place finisher and winner of a stage at the 2023 Tour de France ;
• GREG VAN AVERMAET (Belgium) (AG2R Citroën Team), Gold Medalist in the Men's Road Race at the 2016 Olympics, four-time podium finisher at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal including wins in 2016 and 2019, six-time podium finisher in Québec City and a participant in ten consecutive GPCQMs, competing in his final season as a professional ;
• BENOÎT COSNEFROY (France) (AG2R Citroën Team), winner of the 2022 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec ;
• SIMON YATES (Great Britain) (Team Jayco–Alula), the fourth-place finisher at the 2023 Tour de France and a winner of ten Grand Tour stages ;
• MICHAEL MATTHEWS (Australia) (Team Jayco–Alula), winner of the 2018 and 2019 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and of the 2018 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, and a Tour de France stage winner in 2022 ;
• MICHAEL WOODS (Canada) (Israel–Premier Tech), winner of Stage 9 at this year's Tour de France, the third Canadian in history to win a stage at the Grande Boucle.

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SOURCE Événements GPCQM

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