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Silber dominates the 2016 Grand Prix Cycliste de Saguenay

Place five riders in top-10 with Ryan Roth winning the race overall and Ben Perry in second place

June 12, 2016
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Ben Perry (Silber) wins Stage 1 ahead of Mihkel Raim (Cycling Academy). Photo credit: @fredtremblaysrc

Perry and Cataford celebrate on the podium after Stage 1. Photo credit: @GordFraser

Perry holding the leaders jersey. Photo credit: @GordFraser

Perry prepares for his first day defending the leaders jersey. Photo credit: @GordFraser

Brian Lewis (Lupus) atop the Stage 2 podim flanked by Angus Morton (Jelly Belly) and Ryan Roth (Silber). Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Start of Stage 3. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Stage 3 podium. Top honours went to Travis Livermon (Astellas) ahead of Michael Hernandez (CCB) and Chad Beyer (Lupu). Photo credit: ‏@GPsaguenay

Edward Walsh following his third place finish on Stage 4. Photo credit: @TeamRaceClean

Stage 4 podium. Eric Young (Rally), Ryan Roth (Silber) and Edward Walsh (Team RaceClean). Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Brian Lewis (Lupus) wins KOM competition. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Ben Perry wins the youth classification. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Despite loosing the race lead to his teammate, Perry won the points classification. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Ryan Roth won the 2016 GP Saguenay ahead of teammate Ben Perry and Mihkel Raim. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Silber win the team classification. Photo credit: @GPsaguenay

Silber Pro Cycling dominated the Grand Prix Cycliste de Saguenay. For the second year in a row, two Silber riders stood on the overall podium at the UCI 2.2 four stage race when it wrapped up on June 12. Ryan Roth moved into the overall lead on the races final stage taking the victory ahead of Silber teammate Ben Perry with Mihkel Raim of the Cycling Academy in third. Roth finished second on the races final stage to secure the overall victory.

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Silber have a torrent of strong results in 2016. Roth took the victory at the Winston-Salem Classic, Dal-Cin won the overall at the Redlands Cycling Classic, and the team took second place overall at the Tour of the Gila with Alex Cataford and with Nigel Ellsay at the Joe Martin Stage Race. The first big stage race of 2016 on Canadian soil was again controlled by Silber.

The 2016 race kicked off with a wet and cold 151-km stage around La Baie. Canadian U23 national champion Perry won the stage ahead of Raim with the pair holding a 7-second gap ahead of Alex Cataford (Silber). With Cataford in the king of the mountain jersey and Perry leading the points, youth and general classification Silber held all four leaders jerseys following the first stage.

The second stage was held in Kénogami and featured a 156-km course. Brian Lewis (Lupus) won the stage ahead of Angus Morton (Jelly Belly) with Ryan Roth (Silber) in third. Silber maintained it’s grip on all jersey classifications.

The third stage was a 70-km criterium in Chicoutimi won by Travis Livermon (Astellas). Silber had a scare when Perry was involved in a crash but he was able to recover loosing only three seconds to Raim. Michael Hernandez (CCB) finished in second with Chad Beyer (Lupus) in third. Silber went into the final stage defending all of the races jerseys.

The final stage of the race featured 14 laps of a circuit in Chicoutimi. Stage 2 winner Lewis was off the front solo but the move was brought back within the last two laps. The effort put Lewis into the lead of the climbers classification. Rally Cycling’s Eric Young won the stage ahead of Silber’s Roth with Edward Walsh of Team RaceClean in third. For Walsh, the podium finish in the UCI race is an amazing performance. The 19-year-old Halifax native spent the spring racing in Europe.

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Following the final stage, there was a reshuffle in the GC with Roth moving ahead of Perry to win the race overall while Raim moved down into third place. Lewis took home the climbers jersey while Perry secured the points and youth classification. Silber also won the teams classification to top off a dominating performance by theMontreal-based setup which secured three jerseys, two spots on the overall podium and a stage win.

In 2015, Matteo Dal-Cin of Silber Pro Cycling took the victory on the races first stage and held the overall lead until the end taking the win ahead of teammate Roth and Guillaume Boivin.

The next Canadian UCI stage race on schedule is the Tour de Beauce which begins on June 15.