September 19/25 19:31 pm - Visma - Lease a Bike Dominates Gatineau Chrono
Posted by Editoress on 09/19/25
The 2025 edition of the Tour de Gatineau opened on Friday with the traditional Chrono (ITT) race against the clock, which was dominated by WorldTour squad Visma - Lease a Bike, which took three of the top four spots, including the win by Lieke Nooijen. Her teammates Margaux Vigie and Carlijn Achtereekte took third and fourth, respectively, with only U.S. champion Emily Ehrlich (Virginia's Blue Ridge Twenty28) stopping a sweep of the podium by taking silver. Julie Lacourcière (Team Canada) was the top Canadian, in fifth place.
Lieke Nooijen
L to r: Emily Ehrlich, Lieke Nooijen, Margaux Vigie
The course is a new one for Tour de Gatineau, although it incorporates a segment of the 2016 National Road Championship circuit. The 11.1 kilometre circuit (two laps for the TT and 11 for the road race) starts and finishes on Laurier St in Hull, immediately swinging south onto the Portage Bridge, across to the Ottawa side of the Ottawa River. Riders then join the Kichi Zibi Mikan Parkway, heading west on a long gradual uphill to a flat section, before making a u-turn to head back to the bridge and across to the Quebec side. They then head north on Blvd Maisonneuve, with a couple of 90-degree lefts into residential streets, followed by a short, very steep climb, a right into another climb, and two lefts back onto the finishing straight.
The top four finishers were the only ones to go under 30 minutes, with winner Lieke Nooijen the only one under 29 minutes - 28:50.80. The next three finished in the high-29s, with Canadian Lacourcière clocking in at 30:39.54. Just behind her was another Canadian, Skyler Goudswaard (Cyclery Racing), at 30:56.42. Two other Canadians made the top-10: Emily Driedger (Cyclery Racing) in ninth and Laury Milette (Equipe du Quebec) in tenth.
| Return to Canadian Cyclist homepage | Back to Top |
