The 2018 Canadian Road Championships continued on Sunday with the Criterium Challenge in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Rally Cycling took their fourth title of the week with Sara Bergen's win in the women's event.
Rally dominated the race, held over laps of a 1.6km circuit, sending off a series of attacks and chasing down moves by danger riders Leah Kirchmann (Team Sunweb) and Alison Jackson (Tibco-SVB). Bergen soloed off the front in the final 10 minutes of the race after an attack by Jackson was brought back, and came close to lapping the field. Kirchmann attacked the group to chase, but was marked by Bergen's teammate and new road-race champion Katherine Maine, who outsprinted Kirchmann for second.
"It's been a great week," said Bergen, "and I want to give a huge shoutout to all of my teammates. We were definitely eager to go for the win, and we respect that the other riders were strong, but we were confident in the legs we had. Alison came back from a go and Leah put in a dig, so I knew that was the time to go, after that came back. When you feel the worst, that's the time to go and I felt pretty terrible, so it was time to go!"
Full Results
| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sara Bergen (Rally Cycling) | 1:06:46 |
| 2 | Katherine Maine (Rally Cycling) | 0:01:06 |
| 3 | Leah Kirchmann (Team Sunweb) | Row 2 - Cell 2 |
| 4 | Gillian Ellsay (Rally Cycling) | 0:01:47 |
| 5 | Alison Jackson (TIBCO - Silicon Valley Bank) | 0:02:19 |
| 6 | Marie Soleil Blais (Indépendant) | Row 5 - Cell 2 |
| 7 | Kirsti Lay (Rally Cycling) | Row 6 - Cell 2 |
| 8 | Haley Gill (Rise Racing) | Row 7 - Cell 2 |
| 9 | Raphaele Lemieux (Independent) | 0:02:26 |
| 10 | Sara Poidevin (Rally Cycling) | 0:02:39 |
| DNF | Laurie Jussaume (Cyclery Racing) | Row 10 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Holly Simonson (Trek Red Truck Racing p/b Mosaic Homes) | Row 11 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Elise Piedalue (Québecor / Stingray) | Row 12 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Danielle Dumouchel (New Brunswick) | Row 13 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Dana Gilligan (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 14 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Maggie Coles-Lyster (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 15 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Charlotte Tousignant (Équipe du Québec) | Row 16 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Katherine Bergeron (Équipe du Québec) | Row 17 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Ann Pascale Ouellet (Desjardins Ford p/b Cromwell) | Row 18 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Holly Henry (Indépendant) | Row 19 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Olivia Baril (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 20 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Callie Swan (Trek Red Truck Racing p/b Mosaic Homes) | Row 21 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Devaney Collier (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 22 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Catherine Ouellette (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 23 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Joanie Caron (Crit Nasty) | Row 24 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Alizée Brien (Équipe du Québec) | Row 25 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Isabella Bertold (Trek Red Truck Racing p/b Mosaic Homes) | Row 26 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Kinley Gibson (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 27 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Amélie Bruneau (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 28 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Ariane Bonhomme (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 29 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Sophie Bernard (The Cyclery Racing) | Row 30 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Rebecca Beaumont (Peppermint) | Row 31 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Sarah Gilbert (New Brunswick) | Row 32 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Laura Clarke (New Brunswick) | Row 33 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Frederique Larose Gingras (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 34 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Catherine Fleury (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 35 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Andréanne Murdaca (Logica Sport Biemme) | Row 36 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Bénédicte Lebel (Logica Sport Biemme) | Row 37 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Béatrice Le Sauteur (Logica Sport Biemme) | Row 38 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Laurie Coulombe (Logica Sport Biemme) | Row 39 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Caroline Poole (Leborne Women'S Racing fueled by The Fold and) | Row 40 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Evely Sifton (Hexagon Cycles) | Row 41 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Valina Sintal (First Draft Garneau p/b Mercedes-Benz Oakville) | Row 42 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Allyson Gillard (Desjardins Ford p/b Cromwell) | Row 43 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Luce Bourbeau (Desjardins Ford p/b Cromwell) | Row 44 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Emily Flynn (Cyclery Racing) | Row 45 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Miriam Brouwer (Cyclery Racing) | Row 46 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Emily Spence (Mellow Mushroom) | Row 47 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Elisabeth Albert (Apogee RBC-Valeurs Mobilières) | Row 48 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Annie Foreman-Mackey (Cyclery Racing) | Row 49 - Cell 2 |
| DNS | Erica Leonard (High Gate Racing) | Row 50 - Cell 2 |
| DNS | Anna Talmann (Trek Red Truck Racing p/b Mosaic Homes) | Row 51 - Cell 2 |
| DNS | Ainara Benavente-Babace (Ottawa Bicycle Club) | Row 52 - Cell 2 |
| DNS | Audrey Lemieux (Macogep Argon 18 Girondins de Bordeaux p/p Mazda) | Row 53 - Cell 2 |
| Row 54 - Cell 0 | ) | Row 54 - Cell 2 |
| Row 55 - Cell 0 | ) | Row 55 - Cell 2 |
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