O Gran Camiño
 2024 O Gran Camiño | |
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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