Canada was staging back-to-back men's International Cycling Union (UCI) World Tour one-day races after Belgian rider Arnaud De Lie won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on Friday (September 8).

The Montréal race was 221.4 kilometres on a 12.3km circuit, with the Côte Camillien Houde the toughest climb at 1.8km averaging at 7.3 per cent.

UAE Team Emirates rider Yates, winner of the first stage on this year's Tour de France and general classification winner on the Tour de Romandie, attacked on the final climb of the Côte Camillien Houde, with only Sivakov in Ineos Grenadiers colours able to follow.

It boiled down to a sprint on the uphill finish, with Yates proving too strong to cross the finish line in 5 hours 54min 2sec, finishing 3sec clear of Sivakov.

Spain's Alex Aranburu of Movistar Team lead a group of four riders at 11sec off the pace to win the battle for third, France's Valentin Madouas of Groupama-FDJ, Italy's Simone Velasco of Astana Qazaqstan Team and Britain's Simon Yates of Team Jayco-AlUla placing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.

Simon Yates is brother of the race winner Adam.

Adam Yates followed his Slovenian team-mate Tadej Pogačar, who won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal last year but did not race this year's edition, and was the first British winner of the race.

He finished second behind Belgium's Tim Wellens back in 2015.

"It was a really long day and the race was super hard," Yates reflected.

"The guys did a perfect job for me, setting a high pace: I am not super explosive, so we knew that if we set a hard pace, we had chance to obtain a top result.

"On the last lap we went full gas, that was perfect, I went super fast in the climb and Sivakov was still there, so he obviously had good legs and good condition.

"I thought maybe I could be a little bit quicker in the sprint and that’s how it went.

"I’ve been trying to win this race for years, I was second in 2015, a long time ago, good memories, but today I succeeded to win."

This year's UCI World Tour is nearing its conclusion with only the ongoing Vuelta a España due to finish on Sunday (September 17), one-day Il Lombardia on October 7 in Italy and six-stage Tour of Guangxi in China from October 12 to 17 remaining.