Canada's Matteo Dal-Cin of the Rally Cycling team won at the summit of the Mont Mégantic, the queen stage of the 32nd Tour de Beauce, ahead of Robin Carpenter (Holowesko-Citadel) and Sepp Kuss (Rally Cycling), who won the same stage last year.
Dal-Cin, a 26-year-old Ottawa native, arrived at the foot of the six-kilometer climb in an intense duel with Carpenter. The two men then had an advance of more than two minutes over the peloton.
With three kilometers to go, Dal-Cin carried an attack and Carpenter was unable to follow. Dal-Cin was never touched, and he was able to take the time to savor a solo victory with more than a minute on his closest pursuer.
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At the end of the 170 kilometers, the winner crossed the line after 4:17:30 of racing. In his career, Dal-Cin won the Saguenay Grand Prix Cycling in 2015, the Redlands Bicycle Classic in 2016 and a stage of the Gila Tour earlier this year.
“Winning on Mégantic is pretty special,” said Dal-Cin. “I have had some pretty ugly days on this stage, freezing and having to walk up it 2014, and then crashing in the big pileup in 2015. It was incredible to have the chance to race for the win today. I’m just really stoked that I got the opportunity from the team to have a crack at it from the break when we had such a sure thing with Sepp. It means a lot that they let me play it out and waited to see what happened rather than bringing it back straight away.”
Due to the impressive 26-minute deficit in yesterday’s opening stage, the three men on the podium were not players in the overall standings.
How it unfolded
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