The 2021 Cholet-Pays de la Loire was the 43rd edition of the
Cholet-Pays de la Loire road cycling one day race, which was held on 28 March 2021, starting and finishing in the French town of
Cholet
Cholet (, , probably from Latin language, Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a Communes of France, commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire Departments of France, department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous c ...
, in the
Maine-et-Loire department. The route covers and finishes off with seven laps of an long circuit within Cholet. The race was a 1.1-rated event on the
2021 UCI Europe Tour
The 2021 UCI Europe Tour was the 17th season of the UCI Europe Tour. The season began on 24 January 2021 with the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969 – Gran Premio Valencia and ended on 24 October 2021 with the Ronde van Drenthe.
Throughout t ...
and the second event of the
2021 French Road Cycling Cup The 2021 French Road Cycling Cup was the 30th edition of the French Road Cycling Cup.
The number of events was restored to 16 as many events returned to the calendar after having been cancelled in the 2020 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
.
The race was won in a sprint finish by
Elia Viviani
Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . On 10 May 2015, Viviani won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia, winning stage 2 in a bunch sprint before Moreno ...
() ahead of
Jon Aberasturi () and
Pierre Barbier
Pierre Barbier (born 25 September 1997 in Beauvais) is a French professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental Team . He is the younger brother of the cyclist Rudy Barbier.
Major results
;2014
: 10th Gent–Menen
;2015
: 10 ...
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Initially,
Nacer Bouhanni
Nacer Bouhanni (born 25 July 1990) is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . A sprinter, he was the winner of the 2012 French National Road Race Championships. Although his first Grand Tour was in 2012, his r ...
() finished third in the race, but he was first relegated and then disqualified following a dangerous sprint, during which he pushed
Jake Stewart () into the barriers, breaking Stewart's hand.
Teams
Four
UCI WorldTeam
A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road cycling, the UCI World Tour or UCI ProTour
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s, eleven
UCI ProTeams, and six
UCI Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, th ...
teams made up the twenty-one teams that participated in the race. Four teams (, , , and ) entered with seven riders, while all other teams entered with eight riders each. 143 of the 164 riders in the race finished.
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Results
References
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