Rarely has the line-up been so high at the Denain Grand Prix. Slovenian rider Primoz Roglic taking part in the race for the first time, having just crowned his victory in Paris-Nice, after a second place in the Tour de France 2020 which he had lost during the penultimate stage after a counter-attack. the legendary watch against Tadej Pogacar. In the same Jumbo-Visma team, there is another runner-up to the double winner of the Grande Boucle: Jonas Vingegaard (2nd in the Tour de France 2021). The presence of these two runners owes nothing to chance for the organizer, Dominique Serrano:
There is a stage effect of the Tour de France which will arrive at Wallers-Arenberg and which will include cobbled sections.
“It’s not riders who have pretensions on Paris-Roubaix or the Tour of Flanders, they come to do a bit of cobblestones”, adds the president of the Denain Grand Prix. It is for the same reason that the British Adam Yates also lines up with Denain. On the northern side, we will monitor 3 specialists in this type of race: the Cambrésis runner Quentin Jauregui (B&B) and the Boulonnais Alexy Brunel (UEA Team Emirates)
The race leaves at 11 a.m. and the arrival is scheduled between 3:45 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Find here the route and the times of the peloton.