Peter Sagan rides to Quebec Grand Prix win

Peter Sagan of Slovakia, the 2015 road race champion, won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec on Thursday while Canada's Ryder Hesjedal finished in the peloton in one of the final races of his career.

Canada's Ryder Hesjedal finishes in peloton in one of his last career races

Slovakia's Peter Sagan, shown at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal in 2013, won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec on Friday in just over five hours. (Tim De Waele/Getty Images)

Peter Sagan of Slovakia, the 2015 road race champion, won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec on Thursday while Canada's Ryder Hesjedal finished in the peloton in one of the final races of his career.

Tinkoff team leader Sagan finished the 201-kilometre event, 16 laps of a 12.6 kilometre circuit through city streets, in five hours seven minutes 13 seconds, just ahead of 2016 Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium and the BMC team. Frenchman Anthony Roux of the FDJ squad was third.

Hesjedal, 35, of Victoria, intends to retire at the end of the season.

He will race at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal on Sunday, then will enter four races in Italy including his final appearance at the Tour of Lombardy on Oct. 1.

Hesjedal won the Giro d'Italia in 2012 to become the only Canadian ever to win one of cycling's grand tours.