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Brandon McNulty captured the men’s elite road race on the final day of UCI Road World Championships in Montreal.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old made his move with 33 kilometres and never relinquished the lead, finishing with a time of six hours, 17 minutes and four seconds.<\/p>\n
McNulty became the first American to win an elite road race world title since Lance Armstrong struck rainbow gold at Oslo in 1993.<\/p>\n
“Until the last 300 metres, I really didn’t even believe it. … I was just dying, but I just kept pushing,” said McNulty, who won Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al last season. “I’m at a loss for words.”<\/p>\n
Michael Matthews of Australia made a late push to claim silver in a time of 6:17:17, with Matthew van der Poel of the Netherlands earning bronze.<\/p>\n
Michael Leonard of Oakville, Ont., was the top Canadian, finishing 32nd position in a time of 6:23:43.<\/p>\n
Michael Woods of Toronto came in 35th with a time of 6:23:52 in his final race, while Nickolas Zukowsky of Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Que., posted a time of 6:23:57 to finish 45th.<\/p>\n
Fellow Canadians Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9, Guillaume Boivin and birthday boy Hugo Houle recorded DNFs.<\/p>\n
The Canadian contingent entered without Derek Gee-West, who announced his withdrawal from the race on Tuesday in order to continue recovering from a broken rib sustained at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n
French rider Paul Seixas, an ascending 20-year-old who won bronze in the Men Elite Individual Time Trial on Day 1 last Sunday, sustained an apparent injury in the final stretch of the race, falling back to 15th and finishing in a time of 6:19:51.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-912001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}