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.
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, held two days earlier, are collectively known as the "Laurentian Classics". 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.
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.
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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 long circuit. Each lap of the circuit requires completing four climbs on the slopes around Mount Royal: Côte Camilien-Houde, Côte de la Polytechnique and Avenue du Parc and the new section on Pagnuelo street. The finish is uphill on the Avenue du Parc.
The race has of cumulative climbing, similar to that found in a mountain stage in the Tour de France, though at a lower altitude.
Iterations of the circuit have been used for: