Michael Matthews wins GP de Québec as late attack from Pogacar and De Lie fails

The GP de Québec has been heavily attacked and was without a doubt one of the hardest of recent year. Michael Matthews took the win in the final sprint, his third in the Canadian classic, after Tadej Pogacar's late attack was caught.

The Canadian race began with a breakaway of three with Frank van den Broek of Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL, Artem Schmidt of INEOS Grenadiers and Félix Hamel of the Canadian national team. A trio that seemingly didn't create much threat to the peloton.

With 65 kilometers to go it became a duo as Hamel was dropped, and last year's second place Corbin Strong abandoned the race prematurely. UAE Team Emirates often did work on the climbs trying to create fatigue within the sprinter field.

With two laps to go Alex Baudin and Gil Gelders attacked from the peloton on the final climb, getting a small gap over the peloton. They were caught with 15 kilometers to go however and very shortly after the last survivors of the breakaway did as well.

Jan Tratnik attacked then on the penultimate lap, with UAE also trying to carry a strong pace, but unsuccessfully breaking away from the peloton. With 11 kilometers to go Visma attacked once again, now with Matteo Jorgenson going off the front.

Jorgenson was caught as the riders started the penultimate ramp... Julian Alaphilippe launched an attack that exploded the peloton. Tadej Pogacar was in the group and attacked in the final true small ascent, bringing with him only Arnaud De Lie. Jenno Berckmoes and Maxim van Gils of Lotto joined the duo and paced in order to keep De Lie in the head of the race, but everyone in the group was burned out and they were caught with around 500 meters to go.

Bahrain led out the sprint and Michael Matthews launched it early. The Australian had the best legs on the final sprint and despite launching early he had very strong legs and took the victory ahead of Biniam Girmay and a surprise in Rudy Molard.

1 MATTHEWS Michael Team Jayco-AlUla 500 04:45:36
2 GIRMAY Biniam Intermarché-Wanty 400 + 00
3 MOLARD Rudy Groupama-FDJ 325 + 00
4 BENOOT Tiesj Team Visma | Lease a Bike 275 + 00
5 HAGENES Per Strand Team Visma | Lease a Bike 225 + 00
6 MOLLEMA Bauke Lidl-Trek 175 + 00
7 POGACAR Tadej UAE Team Emirates 150 + 00
8 POWLESS Neilson EF Education-EasyPost 125 + 00
9 BILBAO Pello Bahrain Victorious 100 + 00
10 ZAMBANINI Edoardo Bahrain Victorious 85 + 00
11 LAMPERTI Luke Soudal Quick-Step 70 + 00
12 VERMEERSCH Gianni Alpecin-Deceuninck 60 + 00
13 DE LIE Arnaud Lotto Dstny 50 + 00
14 BAUDIN Alex Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 40 + 00
15 GUERREIRO Ruben Movistar Team 35 + 00
16 WANDAHL Frederik Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 30 + 00
17 ROTA Lorenzo Intermarché-Wanty 30 + 00
18 LOUVEL Matis ARKEA-B&B HOTELS 30 + 00
19 GRÉGOIRE Romain Groupama-FDJ 30 + 00
20 BETTIOL Alberto Astana Qazaqstan Team 30 + 00
21 KELDERMAN Wilco Team Visma | Lease a Bike 20 + 00
22 SKUJINS Toms Lidl-Trek 20 + 00
23 BARRENETXEA Jon Movistar Team 20 + 00
24 SIMMONS Quinn Lidl-Trek 20 + 00
25 BAGIOLI Andrea Lidl-Trek 20 + 00
26 VENTURINI Clément ARKEA-B&B HOTELS 20 + 00
27 SCHACHMANN Max Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 20 + 00
28 HIGUITA Sergio Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 20 + 00
29 HONORE Mikkel EF Education-EasyPost 20 + 00
30 MOHORIC Matej Bahrain Victorious 20 + 00
31 BOIVIN Guillaume Israel-Premier Tech 10 + 00
32 GARCÍA CORTINA Iván Movistar Team 10 + 00
33 FLYNN Sean Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 10 + 00
34 VAN WILDER Ilan Soudal Quick-Step 10 + 00
35 JORGENSON Matteo Team Visma | Lease a Bike 10 + 00
36 MADOUAS Valentin Groupama-FDJ 10 + 07
37 ARANBURU Alex Movistar Team 10 + 07
38 NERURKAR Lukas EF Education-EasyPost 10 + 07
39 VERMAERKE Kevin Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 10 + 07
40 NEILANDS Krists Israel-Premier Tech 10 + 07
41 BUSATTO Francesco Intermarché-Wanty 10 + 07
42 HINDLEY Jai Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 10 + 07
43 JUNGELS Bob Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 10 + 07
44 IZAGIRRE Ion Cofidis 10 + 11
45 HOELGAARD Markus Uno-X Mobility 10 + 11
46 PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 10 + 11
47 WARBASSE Lawrence Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 10 + 11
48 KOCH Jonas Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe 10 + 11
49 LAPEIRA Paul Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 10 + 11
50 SHEFFIELD Magnus INEOS Grenadiers 10 + 16
51 BERCKMOES Jenno Lotto Dstny 5 + 16
52 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland Uno-X Mobility 5 + 19
53 VAN GILS Maxim Lotto Dstny 5 + 2

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