Chris Horner of Astana Wins In Canada

By editor on July 21st, 2008

Chris Horner (Astana Cycling Team) captured the Tour de White Rock Road Race on Sunday, July 20th. That race was the finale of the 10-day, eight-race British Columbia Superweek Series (a Series that has Lance Armstrong on his list as a former winner). The Tour de White Rock is one of Canada’s classic races, on the picturesque seaside hills of the City of White Rock.

Horner (36), who finished 15th in last year’s Tour de France, got away on a break late in the race with Matt Shriver (Jittery Joe’s) and Andrew Pinfold (Symmetrics). He used a devastating attack up the Columbia Street hill on the backside of the final lap to win the 134-kilometre race. Chris Horner cruised up Marine Drive for a 12-second victory and the $1,500 first place in the last of eight races that make up Superweek. Shriver finished second and Pinfold, who’d won the Tour de White Rock Criterium on Saturday, was third.

Since arriving for Gastown on Wednesday (9th), and competing in the Giro di Burnaby on Thursday (11th) and Tour de White Rock (18th in hill climb time trial, 2nd in criterium), Horner has been a one-man-team up against the other well oiled teams.

For the veteran of Astana Cycling Team, who finished 3th overall, it’s his first victory of the season, his 61st as a professional rider. Also in 2009, Chris Horner will be part of Astana Cycling Team. This season he was already very instrumental in Levi Leipheimer’s victories in California and Oregon and in Alberto Contador’s victories in Castilla y Leon and Basque Country.

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