Gallery: 2016 White Spot Delta Road Race
Joëlle Numainville just keeps winning. Silber Pro Cycling, too
Alison Jackson and Sara Bergen shadow Sara Poidevin during the 2016 White Spot Delta Road Race. Photo: Scott Robarts
Joëlle Numainville races at the front on the penultimate laps of the 2016 White Spot Delta Road Race. Photo: Scott Robarts
Joëlle Numainville wins the 2016 White Spot Delta Road Race. Photo: Scott Robarts
Will Routley of Rally Cycling and Bruno Langlois of Garneau- Quebcor ride side by side up the climb, closely shadowed by eventual winner Ryan Roth of Silber Pro Cycling. Photo: Scott Robarts
Ryan Roth of team Silber Pro Cycling wins the 2016 White Spot Delta Road Race. Photo: Scott Robarts
Ryan Roth wins the 2016 White Spot Delta road race. Photo: Scott Robarts
Joëlle Numainville just keeps winning. On Sunday, she completed her sweep of the Tour of Delta, the opening, three-stage event of BC Superweek. Numainville not only won the White Spot Delta Road Race, but Saturday’s Brenco Criterium and Friday’s MK Delta Lands Criterium.
The rider from Montreal is in B.C. without her pro team Cervélo-Bigla Pro Cycling. In Sunday’s eight-lap, 103.6-km road race, Numainville was part of a composite team that included Canadian Ashley Barson, New Zealanders Hannah van Kampen and Elizabeth Steel and Aussie Shannon Malseed. In the race’s final lap, it was Malseed who bridged with Numainville to the breakaway of Sara Poidevin (Rally Pro Cycling), Alison Jackson (Team Canada) and Sara Bergen (Trek Red Truck presented by Mosaic Homes). Bergen finished second, while Jackson was third.
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“I just came here with the most important thing in my mind being how I race,” Numainville said. “I’ve raced aggressively and I’m just happy that I won it. What a day here at the Tour de Delta. I really like coming here and I hope to be here next year for sure!”
Ryan Roth continued his and his team’s hot streak with the win in the men’s 155.4-km White Spot Delta Road Race. “I had fantastic legs and I really wanted to be in the breakaway, so I went all-in on that early and it didn’t work,” Roth said. “Then it didn’t work again, but luckily it played out pretty well.” Roth’s Silber Pro Cycling teammate Elliot Doyle was in break. Doyle was also the winner of Friday’s MK Delta Lands Criterium.
The country’s recently crowned elite men’s road race champion, Bruno Langlois, was also very active in the race. “When you get [the Canadian champion’s maple-left] jersey, you have to show that you deserve it,” Langlois said. ” I’m happy to have the jersey and I wear it pretty proudly. That’s why I attacked so much. That’s why I went up the road, to give 110 per cent to represent my country and that jersey, so today that’s what I did. I got second and that’s OK. Ryan was just stronger than me today.”
U.S. rider Steve Fisher of Canyon Bicycles-Shimano rounded out the podium in third.
