Elia Viviani continues winning streak with victory at Bretagne Classic - Ouest France
The Italian added Bretagne Classic victory to his wins at the Cyclassics Hamburg and two stages at Tour de Poitou Charentes in August

Elia Viviani wins stage three of the 2017 Tour de Romandie

Elia Viviani (Team Sky) continued his fruitful August with a fourth victory in the month, taking the spoils at the WorldTour one-day race, the Bretagne Classic - Ouest France.
The Italian out-sprinted Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) and Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Merida) to the win in Plouay, in what had been a race full of attacks.
No breakaway was able to fully establish itself during the race, with a number of moves being brought back.
Eventually Dries Devenyns (Quick-Step Floors), Sylvain Dillier (BMC), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Sky), Arnaud Gérard (Fortuneo-Oscaro), Paul Martens (LottoNL-Jumbo), Jacopo Mosca (Willier Triestina-Selle Italia), Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac) and Petr Vakoc (QuickStep Floors) got away but failed to establish a gap over a minute.
With that group brought back as those teams not present chased them down, only Dillier and Devenyns remained out front.
They held a gap of just under 20 seconds into the final 20 or so kilometres before Devenyns was unable to maintain the pace.
Cyril Gautier (Ag2r), Albert Bettiol (Cannondale-Drapac), Nathan Haas (Dimension Data), Hector Carretero (Movistar), Pieter Serry (Quick-Step), Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie) and Julien Simon (Cofidis) were able to bridge across and join Dillier, carrying a decent lead into the final 10km.
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Despite a number of solo attacks over the final kilometres of the course and the last climb, the sprinters' teams did the job to pull things back together for their fast men.
In the end, no-one was able to match Viviani's turn of speed as he pushed past Kristoff to take victory on the line, continuing to end his final months with Team Sky in style.
Results
Bretagne Classic - Ouest France 2017 (239.7km)
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky, in 5-31-29
2 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
3 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
4 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
5 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
6 Rúben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
9 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
10 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team, all same time
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Richard is digital editor of Cycling Weekly. Joining the team in 2013, Richard became editor of the website in 2014 and coordinates site content and strategy, leading the news team in coverage of the world's biggest races and working with the tech editor to deliver comprehensive buying guides, reviews, and the latest product news.
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