Clásica de Almería

The Clásica de Almería is a Spanish road bike race .

The Clásica de Almería was held for professionals for the first time in 1992 and has been held annually at the beginning of the season at the end of February since then. The one-day race will be held in the Spanish province of Almería .

The race has been part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005 and was initially classified in category 1.1. Record winners are Massimo Strazzer and Pascal Ackermann , who have won Clásica twice so far. In 2018 the race was upgraded to the 1st HC category and has been part of the UCI ProSeries since 2020 .

successes

1992 Johnny WeltzDenmark
1993 Vyacheslav YekimovRussia 1991
1994 Johan CapiotBelgium
1995 Jean-Pierre HeynderickxBelgium
1996 Wilfried NelissenBelgium
1997 Massimo StrazzerItaly
1998 Mario TraversoniItaly
1999 Ján SvoradaCzech Republic
2000 Isaac GálvezSpain
2001 Tayeb BraikiaDenmark
2002 Massimo StrazzerItaly
2003 Luciano PagliariniBrazil
2004 Jérôme PineauFrance
2005 José Iván GutiérrezSpain
2006 Francisco PérezSpain
2007 Eduard WorganowRussia
2008 Juan José HaedoArgentina
2009 Greg HendersonNew Zealand
2010 Theo BosNetherlands
2011 Matteo PelucchiItaly
2012 Michael MatthewsAustralia
2013 Mark RenshawAustralia
2014 Sam BennettIreland
2015 Mark CavendishUnited Kingdom
2016 Leigh HowardAustralia
2017 Magnus Cort NielsenDenmark
2018 Caleb EwanAustralia
2019 Pascal AckermannGermany
2020 Pascal AckermannGermany

Remarks

↑ The original winner, the Italian Giuseppe Muraglia , was disqualified for doping, cf. Muraglia wins in Andalusia. radsport-news.com, March 4, 2007, accessed January 2, 2016 . and doping cases M on cycling4fans.de }

Web links

Official website
Clásica de Almería in the Radsportseiten.net database

Clásica de Almería in the ProCyclingStats.com database

[1] The original winner, the Italian Giuseppe Muraglia , was disqualified for doping, cf. Muraglia wins in Andalusia. radsport-news.com, March 4, 2007, accessed January 2, 2016 . and doping cases M on cycling4fans.de }