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Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France 2024

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• Date: 03 September 2023
• Start time: 10:35
• Avg. speed winner: 41.24 km/h
• Classification: 1.UWT
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 258 km
• Points scale: 1.WT.B
• UCI scale: UCI.WR.C2
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• ProfileScore: 122
• Vertical meters: 3687
• Departure: Plouay
• Arrival: Plouay
• Race ranking: 23
• Startlist quality score: 758
• Won how: Sprint of 4 riders
• Avg. temperature: 24 °C

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2024 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France (World Tour)

88th edition: sunday, august 25, 2024.

Bretagne Classic podium history | 2023 edition | Race map & profile | Start list

Formerly named "GP Ouest-France Plouay".

Plouay - Plouay, 259.8 km

Marc Hirschi wins just ahead of a charging pack.

Weather at the start/finish city of Plouay at 2:20 PM, local time: 20C (68F), cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 19 km/hr (12 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

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Here's the report from second-place Paul Magnier's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Paul Magnier finished an incredible runner-up at one of the hardest one-day races of the season, the Bretagne Classic, which this year ran its 88th edition, over a 260km course containing around two dozen climbs.

Soudal Quick-Step’s French neo-pro, who won a total of five races this year with both the World Tour and Devo Team, as well as the points classification at the GiroNextGen, became the youngest rider this century to sit on the podium of the prestigious event held around Plouay after a remarkable display on a day that contained more than 3500 vertical meters.

The start line. Benjamin Thomas, Christophe Laporte, Thomas Pidcock, Warren Barguil & Julian Alaphilippe (left to right) are in the front row.

A race for puncheurs, Bretagne Classic came close to being won by one of the fastest up-and-coming riders in the peloton, in the end just one second separating Paul Magnier from Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates), who attacked with three kilometers to go, barely holding off the chasers on the uphill drag to the line. Behind him, the 20-year-old from Grenoble – who had benefited from the work of his teammates Julian Alaphilippe and Ilan Van Wilder – showed a fantastic turn of speed to beat more seasoned riders and notch up our team’s fourth top-three finish at the French race.

“It’s amazing to be on the podium. Of course, there is some disappointment, because I want to win a race when I enter it, but at the end of the day this is an incredible result, which I wouldn’t have expected at the start. It was the longest race in my career, but I had the confidence of this amazing team, with Julian and Ilan covering a lot of attacks and trying to keep things together. I did my best in the sprint and it’s a great result to be runner-up in front of my home fans and of my parents, who were present on the course today. This podium makes me very proud”, said Paul after his tenth top-three result of the year.

Complete results:

259.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.177 km/hr

Course map & profile:

Map of the 2024 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France

Profile of the 2024 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France

Start list with back numbers, August 24, 2024:

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