Ryan Roth second in Winston-Salem title defense, Bruno Langlois third

Robin Carpenter won his first Winston Salem Cycling Classic title on Monday in the one day UCI 1.1 race in Pennsylvania. The Holowesko-Citadel rider escaped on the courses final KOM, the climb up Pilot View and Summit St.

Thanks to @M1ProCycling team boys Road strong to bring the break back to bridging dist @WSCycling Didn't stick tho. Kept fighting, fin 17

— chris prendergast (@prenc12) May 30, 2017

Ryan Roth of Silber Pro Cycling was defending his 2016 title and finished second 10-seconds behind Carpenter with Canadian National champion Bruno Langlois of Garneau-Quebecor in third. Carpenter was always going to be hard to beat with the overall win at the Tour of Alberta in 2016 under his belt as well as a stage and the overall at the Joe Martin Stage Race in April.

The race which uses a circuit just over 13 km long was 178 km with Carpenter winning in a time just under 4 hours.

In the women’s race, it was Chrono Gatineau winner Lauren Stephens (Team Tibco -Silicon Valley Bank) who took the win. Leah Thomas of Sho-Air Twenty20 was second with Lauretta Hanson of UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling rounding out the podium. Two Canadians were in the top-10 with Stephens teammate Lex Albrecht in sixth. Kirsti Lay of Rally Cycling was ninth.