June 15/13 0:00 am - Tour de Beauce: Stage 5 report, results and photos
Posted by Editoress on 06/15/13
de Maar Wins In Quebec City
Marc de Maar (UnitedHealthcare) took the win on stage 5, the tough Quebec City Circuit race, in a sprint from the day long breakaway. Quebec City resident Antoine Duchesne (Bontrager) was second and Oscar Clark (Hincapie Sportswear), third. Francisco Mancebo and his 5-Hr Energy team successfully defended the yellow jersey and goes into Sunday's final, another difficult circuit race in St Georges with a six second lead on his closest competitor.
Winner of the Quebec City stage in 2010, de Maar made his way into the early five-rider break with grew to nine when a four-ride chase group which included GC threat Christian Meier (Canadian National Team) bridged across with 21 kilometres to go.
“With two laps to go, a few guys out of the bunch caught us which was an ideal situation for me because I could tell them, sorry I'm not working anymore because I have my GC guys in the chasing group so I was just sitting for the last one and a half laps. Meier was doing lots of work, he pretty much did it by himself so the rest of us were sitting on.” de Maar said.
“The last few kilometres there were some attacks, I countered everything and then it was a long sprint, I went with 300 metres to go, I was too tired to put my hands in the air.” he continued with a laugh. “It was a hard race, it's a beautiful race, I've won it before and I love to be racing here. It was a good day for the team, hopefully we can get the other objective tomorrow.”
“When we got to the last lap, I knew that I had good legs, I know that I don't have a very good sprint so close to the top of the climb, I tried to go but there were three of us at the top. We started to look at each other and to sit up. I waited, and then positioned myself for the sprint but I was not able to come around Marc at the end.” explained Duchesne who lives one kilometre from the finish line.
The 21-year old racer, who hails from Chicoutimi originally, admitted to feeling the pressure to perform for his homecrowd. “All my family is here from Montreal, my friends, I had a lot of fans around, everyone was screaming my name. I would have loved to have won for everyone, a second place is pretty good too.”
Mancebo praised his teammates. “Today I was good, the team worked a lot and very well for me. Tonight, we rest and recover and tomorrow will be another very, very hard day. Those last 100 kilometres will be the hardest 100 kilometres of the Tour.”
How it unfolded
Attacks flew early on in the 12-lap race which uses a large section of the route used by the Grand Prix cycliste de Québec, a UCI WorldTour race until seven riders escaped on the second lap. The move included Jamey Driscoll (Jamis-Hagens Berman), Guillaume Boivin (Canada National Team), Craig Lewis (Champion System), Clark and de Maar.
De Maar had to adjust his strategy when he saw the composition of the break. “The focus was pretty much on GC so the plan was for our GC guys to put the pressure on Mancebo's team and then the rest of the team, (Davide) Frattini, myself and (Jonny) Clarke, would look for early breaks. We were hoping that dangerous threats on GC would come with us and put the pressure on the guys to keep the gap close so the GC guys could attack on the final.”
“The break went up the road and I was with them but unfortunately there were no dangerous guys for GC in there and it was a bit of a weird situation but we kept on going, everybody was fully committed to work.”
The five riders worked well together but the gap was never threatening to Mancebo, going to over three minutes for a short time before it came back down.
Mancebo was quite happy with the composition of the break with Clark the highest on GC at two minutes and 56 seconds down. “Oscar was there and he was three minutes behind me so okay for three minutes, it's okay for us. But behind, the Canada Team were not happy.”
He was right. Halfway through the race, the Canadian National Team DS Gord Fraser told his boys that it was time to put pressure on.
“We were sort of in that position it was all or nothing, you have to go for broke. Because a minute and a half, you can't wait for the last lap and make up a minute and a half.” explained Meier who was one minute and 28 seconds down on GC at the start of the stage.
Meier continued, “A few times through the start finish, the guys started attacking again but the problem with those two attacking (Cooper, Britton) and the others was because they weren't on GC, 5-Hr were pretty smart and didn't panic and let them go so a couple of time, I attacked on the start/finish just to put them under pressure and make them work. And then, we could start to see that they were coming apart a little bit and then finally, the third time, Rob and Marsh snuck off the front on the hill and I just bridged across and that was it, and we just went for it. These guys just drove it and we got across to the break and we had Guillaume there, then he drove it and the guys did an unbelievable job.”
Jumping on the Canadian blue train as it made its way across was Duchesne. “With five or six laps to go, attacks started to happen and I saw that the riders around me were having a bit of trouble and I was feeling good on the climb so, I told myself to stay attentive because I had to do something if I had good legs. So when I saw the Canadians go, I went too. Since there were three of them, I didn't have to pull, I had a bit of a free ride to the break. Then, when we made it across, I attacked immediately to give it a good jolt.”
With Meier in the mix, tactics changed. Both de Maar and Duchesne sat on as they had to protect the GC position of their teammates. A decision that Meier understood. “Unfortunately I had to (pull) because if I was going to get time, the guys were playing for the stage, it's pretty normal.”
At that point, Clark started to think that the break would make it to the finish line. “They all worked together, they were going for GC so they were just going as hard as they could. They had the one guy left, Meier, he was riding for GC time so he was just going all out.”
The jockeying for position for the sprint started the final time up the climb up Cote de la Montagne with a 10% average grade but most of the break was still together when Meier attacked on the false flat to the finish. “I hit them on this flat section coming into the finish, but I was on the limit and everyone came around me in the last couple hundred metres and it's all you can do. We played all our cards today and we didn't come out with the jersey but if I have moved up a couple of spots on GC, we'll see.”
“The team is interested in doing something.” Meier continued. “Once you have 5-Hr Energy isolated, that's the time to try something and we decided that we were not going to wait for others, did our own race. I think it was quite impressive how the guys raced today, it was unbelievable.”
After the dust settled, Mancebo has a five second lead on Nathan Brown (Bontrager) and eight seconds on Matt Cooke (CRCA). Ben Day (UnitedHealthcare) is in fourth place at 17 seconds while Meier moved up to sixth place, 47 seconds down.
The 28th edition of the Tour de Beauce concludes on Sunday with the 107-km St Georges Circuit Race, where each lap includes a 1.3-km climb with 6% average grade.
Report by Lyne Lamoureux
| Stage 5: Ville de Quebec, 126 km | |
| 1 Marc de Maar (AHO) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 3:07:02 |
| 2 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Bontrager Cycling Team | |
| 3 Oscar Clark (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | both s.t. |
| 4 James Driscoll (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | :06 |
| 5 Christian Meier (Can) Canadian National Team | s.t. |
| 6 Craig Lewis (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 0:28 |
| 7 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Esp) 5 Hour Energy | 0:47 |
| 8 Michael Woods (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 0:49 |
| 9 Diego M. Jimenez (Dom) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | |
| 10 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | |
| 11 Nathan Brown (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | |
| 12 Kiel J. Reijnen (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | |
| 13 Benjamin Day (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | all s.t. |
| 14 Chris Baldwin (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 0:53 |
| 15 Matthew Cooke (USA) Century Road Club Association | 0:53 |
| 16 Tyler Magner (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 0:56 |
| 17 Philip Deignan (Irl) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 1:00 |
| 18 Jaroslaw Dabrowski (Pol) Amore Vita -Amo | s.t. |
| 19 Chris Butler (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 1:02 |
| 20 Lucas Euser (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | |
| 21 Kirk Carlsen (USA) H&R Block | |
| 22 Tyler Wren (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | all s.t. |
| 23 Joseph Lewis (Aus) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 1:07 |
| 24 Benjamin Jacques Maynes (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | s.t. |
| 25 Luis Romero Amaran (Cub) Jamis Hagens Berman | 1:13 |
| 26 Dominique Rollin (Can) Canadian National Team | s.t. |
| 27 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr) Amore Vita -Amo | 1:18 |
| 28 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | |
| 29 David Lozano Riba (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 30 Ignacio Sarabia Diaz (Mex) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | |
| 31 Robin Carpenter (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | |
| 32 Javier Megias Leal (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | all s.t. |
| 33 Chad Beyer (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 1:23 |
| 34 Fabio Calabria (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk | 1:34 |
| 35 Phillip Lavery (Irl) H&R Block | 1:48 |
| 36 Nathan English (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 1:55 |
| 37 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Bontrager Cycling Team | 1:57 |
| 38 Ryan Eastman (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | 2:10 |
| 39 Jason Mccartney (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 2:20 |
| 40 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissel Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 41 Davide Frattini (Ita) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 2:22 |
| 42 Maxim Jenkins (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 2:28 |
| 43 Nic Hamilton (Can) Canadian National Team | s.t. |
| 44 Bruno Langlois (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 2:58 |
| 45 Robert Britton (Can) Canadian National Team | 3:08 |
| 46 Jonathan McCarty (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | |
| 47 Ryan Roth (Can) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | both s.t. |
| 48 Conor Mullervy (USA) Century Road Club Association | 4:45 |
| 49 Jean-Michel Lachance (Can) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | 6:01 |
| 50 Clinton Avery (NZl) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 7:32 |
| 51 Adam Farabaugh (USA) Garneau-Quebecor | |
| 52 Rémi Pelletier Roy (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | |
| 53 Pierrick Naud (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | |
| 54 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | |
| 55 Daniel Holloway (USA) Amore Vita -Amo | |
| 56 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| 57 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Canadian National Team | |
| 58 Jonathan Clark (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | |
| 59 Marsh Cooper (Can) Canadian National Team | all s.t. |
| 60 Mark Korus (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | 8:56 |
| 61 Julian Kyer (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 62 Viesruts Luksevics (Lat) Amore Vita -Amo | 9:21 |
| 63 James Stemper (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 9:33 |
| 64 David Boily (Can) Amore Vita -Amo | s.t. |
| 65 Garrett McLeod (Can) H&R Block | 11:40 |
| 66 Alexander Cataford (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | s.t. |
| 67 Carson Miller (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | 14:06 |
| 68 Robert Ralph (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | 15:04 |
| 69 William Blackburn (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| 70 Federico Marchiori (Ita) H&R Block | |
| 71 Juan Miguel Perez Garcia (Esp) Ekoï/Devinci | |
| 72 Kyle Buckosky (Can) H&R Block | |
| 73 Benjamin Zawacki (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | |
| 74 Anton Mikhailov (Isr) Amore Vita -Amo | |
| 75 James Piccoli (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| 76 Daniel Chabanov (USA) Century Road Club Association | |
| 77 Shawn Milne (USA) 5 Hour Energy | |
| 78 Chris Gruber (Can) Century Road Club Association | |
| 79 Cortlan Brown (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | |
| 80 Christian Parrett (USA) 5 Hour Energy | |
| 81 Coultan Hartrich (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | |
| 82 Olivier Delaney (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| 83 Jorge Perez Pena (Dom) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | all s.t. |
| 84 Micheal Midlarsky (USA) Ekoï/Devinci | 26:12 |
| 85 François Chabot (Can) Ekoï/Devinci | |
| 86 Guillaume Fiset (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| 87 Étienne Samson (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | all s.t. |
| DNF Joonas Henttala (Fin) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF Thomas Raeymaekers (Bel) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF Robert Sweeting (USA) 5 Hour Energy | |
| DNF Carter Jones (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | |
| DNF Phillip Gaimon (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | |
| DNF Tanner Putt (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | |
| DNF Antoine Matteau (Can) Ekoï/Devinci | |
| DNF Jordan Brochu (Can) Ekoï/Devinci | |
| DNF Andrew Baker (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | |
| DNF Demis Aleman (Arg) Jamis Hagens Berman | |
| DNF Phil Mooney (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | |
| DNF Ryan Shaun MacDonald (Can) H&R Block | |
| DNF Anthony Walsh (Irl) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | |
| DNF Ryan Aitcheson (Can) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | |
| DNF James Schurman (USA) Century Road Club Association | |
| DNF Jesse Keough (USA) Century Road Club Association | |
| DNF Sébastien Rousseau (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| DNF Samuel Blanchette (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| DNF Adam Carr (USA) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| DNF Anton Varabei (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| DNF Logan Cornel (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | |
| DNF Benjamin Chartrand (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| DNF David Onsow (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| DNF Nicolas Masbourian (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | |
| DNS Zachary Hughes (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | |
| DNS Matthew Green (GBr) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | |
| GC | |
| 1 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Esp) 5 Hour Energy | 15:36:36 |
| 2 Nathan Brown (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | at 0:05 |
| 3 Matthew Cooke (USA) Century Road Club Association | 0:08 |
| 4 Benjamin Day (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 0:17 |
| 5 Philip Deignan (Irl) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 0:39 |
| 6 Christian Meier (Can) Canadian National Team | 0:47 |
| 7 Chris Butler (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 1:33 |
| 8 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 1:46 |
| 9 Oscar Clark (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 2:04 |
| 10 Michael Woods (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 2:23 |
| 11 Chris Baldwin (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 2:23 |
| 12 Lucas Euser (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 2:24 |
| 13 Kirk Carlsen (USA) H&R Block | 2:25 |
| 14 Tyler Wren (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | 2:48 |
| 15 Jaroslaw Dabrowski (Pol) Amore Vita -Amo | 3:11 |
| 16 Nathan English (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 3:27 |
| 17 Benjamin Jacques Maynes (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | 3:57 |
| 18 Chad Beyer (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 4:33 |
| 19 Antoine Duchesne (Can) Bontrager Cycling Team | 4:59 |
| 20 Robin Carpenter (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 5:00 |
| 21 Ignacio Sarabia Diaz (Mex) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | 5:04 |
| 22 Luis Romero Amaran (Cub) Jamis Hagens Berman | 5:04 |
| 23 Dominique Rollin (Can) Canadian National Team | 5:14 |
| 24 Robert Britton (Can) Canadian National Team | 5:28 |
| 25 Maxim Jenkins (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 5:40 |
| 26 David Lozano Riba (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | 5:59 |
| 27 Joseph Lewis (Aus) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 6:46 |
| 28 Phillip Lavery (Irl) H&R Block | 7:11 |
| 29 Diego M. Jimenez (Dom) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | 7:19 |
| 30 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr) Amore Vita -Amo | 8:00 |
| 31 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 8:15 |
| 32 Fabio Calabria (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk | 8:18 |
| 33 Marc de Maar (AHO) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 9:18 |
| 34 Kiel J. Reijnen (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 10:01 |
| 35 Craig Lewis (USA) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 10:27 |
| 36 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Bontrager Cycling Team | 11:21 |
| 37 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Bissel Pro Cycling | 11:33 |
| 38 James Driscoll (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | 12:16 |
| 39 Ryan Roth (Can) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 13:25 |
| 40 Tyler Magner (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 13:47 |
| 41 Marsh Cooper (Can) Canadian National Team | 14:28 |
| 42 Conor Mullervy (USA) Century Road Club Association | 14:34 |
| 43 Jonathan McCarty (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 15:44 |
| 44 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk | 15:49 |
| 45 Clinton Avery (NZl) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 15:50 |
| 46 Julian Kyer (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 16:21 |
| 47 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Canadian National Team | 16:26 |
| 48 Javier Megias Leal (Esp) Team Novo Nordisk | 16:51 |
| 49 Pierrick Naud (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 16:51 |
| 50 David Boily (Can) Amore Vita -Amo | 17:26 |
| 51 Jean-Michel Lachance (Can) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | 17:30 |
| 52 Nic Hamilton (Can) Canadian National Team | 17:35 |
| 53 Jason McCartney (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 19:51 |
| 54 Coultan Hartrich (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | 21:38 |
| 55 Daniel Holloway (USA) Amore Vita -Amo | 21:46 |
| 56 Jonathan Clark (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 21:48 |
| 57 Ryan Eastman (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | 22:00 |
| 58 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Champion System Pro Cycling Team | 22:10 |
| 59 Davide Frattini (Ita) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 22:30 |
| 60 James Stemper (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 22:31 |
| 61 Rémi Pelletier Roy (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 22:58 |
| 62 Adam Farabaugh (USA) Garneau-Quebecor | 24:47 |
| 63 Chris Gruber (Can) Century Road Club Association | 24:52 |
| 64 Cortlan Brown (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | 24:58 |
| 65 Shawn Milne (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 25:07 |
| 66 Bruno Langlois (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 27:56 |
| 67 Mark Korus (USA) Astellas Oncology Cycling Team | 28:18 |
| 68 Alexander Cataford (Can) Garneau-Quebecor | 30:40 |
| 69 Olivier Delaney (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | 33:07 |
| 70 Kyle Buckosky (Can) H&R Block | 34:23 |
| 71 Viesruts Luksevics (Lat) Amore Vita -Amo | 35:01 |
| 72 Carson Miller (USA) Jamis Hagens Berman | 36:18 |
| 73 Garrett McLeod (Can) H&R Block | 36:19 |
| 74 Juan Miguel Perez Garcia (Esp) Ekoï/Devinci | 36:41 |
| 75 Anton Mikhailov (Isr) Amore Vita -Amo | 37:29 |
| 76 Christian Parrett (USA) 5 Hour Energy | 39:23 |
| 77 James Piccoli (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | 40:34 |
| 78 William Blackburn (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | 41:58 |
| 79 Robert Ralph (Can) Team Medique p/b Silber Investments | 44:45 |
| 80 Federico Marchiori (Ita) H&R Block | 46:43 |
| 81 Daniel Chabanov (USA) Century Road Club Association | 49:18 |
| 82 Micheal Midlarsky (USA) Ekoï/Devinci | 50:41 |
| 83 Benjamin Zawacki (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 56:24 |
| 84 Jorge Perez Pena (Dom) Inteja, Dominican Cycling Team | 1:17:30 |
| 85 Étienne Samson (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | 1:31:53 |
| 86 Guillaume Fiset (Can) Norco Bicycles/Premier Tech | 1:44:31 |
| 87 François Chabot (Can) Ekoï/Devinci | 1:59:55 |
| Points | |
| 1 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team | 34 pts |
| 2 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Canadian National Team | 34 |
| 3 Francisco Mancebo Perez (Esp) 5 Hour Energy | 34 |
| 4 Nathan Brown (USA) Bontrager Cycling Team | 30 |
| 5 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Bontrager Cycling Team | 28 |
| 6 Chris Baldwin (USA) Bissel Pro Cycling | 27 |
| 7 Philip Deignan (Irl) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 26 |
| 8 Matthew Cooke (USA) Century Road Club Association | 26 |
| 9 Benjamin Day (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 26 |
| 10 Christian Meier (Can) Canadian National Team | 25 |
| 11 Kiel J. Reijnen (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 24 |
| 12 Marc de Maar (AHO) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling Team | 21 |
| 13 Benjamin Jacques Maynes (USA) Jamis Hagens |
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