Lars Petter Nordhaug took 19th place from a select front group at the GP de Quebec while Bernard Eisel suffered a fractured arm.

Nordhaug forced his way into contention following 16 laps of a gruelling downtown course in Quebec which saw the peloton whittled down in the closing stages.

Attacks fired late on and it was former Team Sky rider Rigoberto Uran (Etixx - Quick-Step) who rose to the occasion, timing his attack perfectly on the drag up the Grand Allee to narrowly hold off the chasing pack.

Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge) and Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) led in an elite group of world championship contenders to round out the podium placings.

Business picked up with around 50km to go and Philip Deignan was among a group of riders to accelerate out of the pack as the pace increased. Sadly Eisel was forced to watch the race after going down in an early-race crash, fracturing his left arm.

With the day's five-man break swept up, Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) launched a late move ahead of the bell lap, but with attacks being launched it all came back together for Uran to take the spoils.