{"id":46827,"date":"2019-10-09T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=46827"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:32:42","slug":"canadas-michael-woods-wins-milestone-milan-turin-cycling-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/canadas-michael-woods-wins-milestone-milan-turin-cycling-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Michael Woods wins milestone Milan-Turin cycling race"},"content":{"rendered":"
Canada’s Michael Woods held off Spain’s Alejandro Valverde at the line to win the 100th edition of the Milan-Turin cycling race on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Ottawa native completed the 179-kilometre route from Magenta to Superga, overlooking the 2006 Olympic host city of Turin, in four hours three minutes 48 seconds.<\/p>\n Britain’s Adam Yates was five seconds back in third place. Hugo Houle of Ste-Perpetue, Que., was over three minutes off the pace in 39th place.<\/p>\n It’s Woods’ best result since finishing first in the second stage of the Herald Sun Tour event last January.<\/p>\n The EF Education First cyclist won bronze last year at the UCI road race world championship.<\/p>\n