Part 3

16km to go

The late attackers are closing in on the break

14km to go

Some more attacks out of the peleton! Failli (VIN), Taaramae (COF), Trofimov (KAT) and Arashiro (EUC) are trying their luck. Meanwhile, the group Brouwer and the group Fedrigo merged into 1 group.

13km to go

Wait, what's this! Dyachenko and Montaguti are ahead of the break. Van Winden couldn't follow the pace of the others.

10km to go

10 kilometers to go for the 2 leader. Voeckler has passed Van Winden and has now joined the break. The other chasers have also merged into 1 big group of 16 men, but they are 1:30 behind the leaders. The peleton is even further behind, so their chances are small.

5000m to go

It's safe to say that the winner will come out one of these 3 groups. However, the 2 at the front are around 40 seconds ahead of the second group, who is 40 seconds ahead of the third group, who is 1:45 ahead of the peleton.

3000m to go

I think they're too late. It will be a battle between these 2 riders, Montaguti and Dyachenko.

1000m to go

Under the kite and the Italian is leading. But isn't he leading out the Kazach this way?

800m to go

The answer is, yes! Dyachenko is in the lead now.

0m to go

Alexsandr Dyachenko is this year's winner of the GP La Marseillaise. Well done! Montaguti comes in second place, but he will be disappointed.


The 2 chasing groups merged in the final kilometers. Mederel just edges out Voeckler in a sprint for third place. Vichot is fifth, Brouwer sixth and Delage seventh. Ignatiev finishes in eight place. Veuchelen and Cervero complete the top 10.


Maxime Vantomme (CRE) won the sprint in the remaining peleton ahead of Lixandru (COF) and Simon (SOJ). It was only for the 31th place, though.


Everybody has finished the race, except this guy who thought La Pomme Marseille got an invitation for their home race. They didn't apparently, so he didn't start.

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Alexsandr Dyachenko	Astana Pro Team	3h39'42
2	Matteo Montaguti	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 19
3	Maxime Méderel	Sojasun	+ 59
4	Thomas Voeckler	Team Europcar	s.t.
5	Arthur Vichot	FDJ.fr	s.t.
6	Willem Brouwer	Belkin Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Mickaël Delage	FDJ.fr	s.t.
8	Mikhail Ignatiev	Katusha Team	s.t.
9	Frederik Veuchelen	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Delfi Cervero	FDJ.fr	s.t.
11	Sven Nys	Crelan - Euphony	s.t.
12	Jean-Luc Delpech	Bretagne - Séché Environnement	s.t.
13	Lucas Euser	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Jonathan Hivert	Sojasun	s.t.
15	Pierrick Fédrigo	FDJ.fr	s.t.
16	Rafael Andriato	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	s.t.
17	Laurens De Vreese	Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise	s.t.
18	Heimdal Hagg	Team NetApp - Endura	s.t.
19	Christian Schroder	Team Europcar	s.t.
20	Jeff Louder	UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
21	Sergey Chernetskiy	Katusha Team	s.t.
22	Sergey Lagutin	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Jelle Wallays	Topsport Vlaanderen - Baloise	s.t.
24	Thabo Jango Sithembile	Sky Procycling	s.t.
25	Daniel Navarro	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	s.t.