O Gran Camiño
Appearance
2024 O Gran Camiño | |
Race details | |
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Date | Late February |
Region | Galicia |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | EmeSports |
Web site | ograncamino |
History | |
First edition | 2022 |
Editions | 3 (as of 2024) |
First winner | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) |
Most wins | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) |
O Gran Camiño (English: The Great Way), also known as Gran Camiño and the International Galician Tour, is a road cycling stage race held in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. The race is rated as a category 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour calendar.[1][2]
The race returns regular professional cycling to Galicia for the first time since the Tour of Galicia, which was last held as a professional event in 2000;[3][4] however, the two events are not related.[5] The inaugural edition of the event took place in late February 2022 and consisted of four stages.[2]
The name of the race draws inspiration from the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.[6]
Winners
[edit]Year | Country | Rider | Team |
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2022 | Spain | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar Team |
2023 | Denmark | Jonas Vingegaard | Team Jumbo–Visma |
2024 | Denmark | Jonas Vingegaard | Visma–Lease a Bike |
References
[edit]- ^ "Gran Camiño". UCI. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Preview statistics for Gran Camiño 2022". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ Penedo, Pablo (24 February 2022). "O Gran Camiño regala a Galicia cuatro días de pasión ciclista" [O Gran Camiño gives Galicia four days of cycling passion]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Corporación Voz de Galicia. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ Miranda, Daniel (24 February 2022). "O Gran Camiño regala a Galicia cuatro días de pasión ciclista" [Two comebacks hand in hand: that of Valverde and that of Galicia]. Diario AS (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "O Gran Camiño - International Galician Tour". O Gran Camiño. EmeSports. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ ""O Gran Camiño", a professional cycling tour of the highest level". Viajes Camino de Santiago. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2022.