TEAM CANADA’S PICCOLI WINS MEGANTIC STAGE AT TOUR DE BEAUCE

Saint-Georges, QC (June 21, 2019) – Defending champion James Piccoli of Team Canada won the 169 kilometre second stage of the Tour de Beauce on Thursday in impressive style, riding the rest of the field off his wheel on the final five kilometre climb to the top of Mont Megantic. His win moves Piccoli into second overall, 33 seconds behind fellow Canadian Nickolas Zukowsky (Floyd’s Pro Cycling).

Canada put five riders in the top ten on the stage, with Adam Roberge (Team Canada) finishing fifth, Zukowsky sixth, first year Under-23 rider Ben Katerberg (Team BC) seventh and Pier-Andre Cote (Rally UHC) in ninth. On the General Classification, Canadians are first (Zukowsky), second (Piccoli), eighth (Roberge), ninth (Katerberg) and tenth (Cote).

“That was the plan coming into the race today,” said Piccoli, referring to his attack of the climb. “The guys did all they could to keep it together at the foot of the climb, because we knew that was my best chance of winning the stage and taking some time on GC. It was really aggressive all day, but the boys did an unbelievable job of rolling it back together so it was really nice to be able to do it for them.”