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The 2012 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec was the third edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 7 September 2012, over a distance of , starting and finishing in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was the 25th event of the 2012 UCI World Tour season. The race is one of the only two events which are part of the World Tour calendar in North America, the other one being the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal contested two days later. In a two-up sprint finish, Australian national champion Simon Gerrans of the team won the race, after following an attack by 's Greg Van Avermaet in the closing stages of the race, with the two riders working together to get clear and Gerrans prevailed on the uphill finish on the ''Grande-Allée''. Van Avermaet was second, while the peloton was led home by the 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal winner Rui Costa (), four seconds in arrears. ==Course== The race consisted of 16 laps of a circuit in length, with exactly the same course as the 2011 edition. The circuit was well-suited for climbers and puncheurs, since the finish was situated on an uphill climb, located on the ''Grande-Allée'' street, in the heart of Old Québec and the course featured steep climbs. The final stretch was a wide, straight line with a regular 4% gradient. The total vertical climb of the race was . The major difficulties were: *Kilometer 9: Côte de la Montagne: with an average gradient of 10%, with a pass of meters at 13% *Kilometer 10: Côte de la Potasse: with an average gradient of 9% *Kilometer 11: Côte de la Fabrique: with an average gradient of 7% *Kilometer 11: Climb to the finish line: with an average gradient of 4% It is worth noting that the Côte Gilmour descent included a technical passage, 2 successive left bends of 90 degrees each, the first of which was negotiated while the descending slope had a gradient of more than 10%. After the last of the two bends, the riders were rolling on the Boulevard Champlain on the Saint Lawrence River's shores for which were exposed to the wind. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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