Clásica de Almería (1.Pro), Spain
Winners, podium, distance, average speed
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The race:
The Clásica de Almería is a single-day road race held in Andalusia (southeast Spain). The race currently (2019) starts in Almería.
Originally an amateur race, first run in 1986, the event became a professional event in 1992. Over the years it was upgraded from 1.4 until it was classed 1.1 in 2005. Im 2012 it was classed "HC" but was dowgraded to 1.1 for 2014. In 2015 it was again given "HC" status and currently (2017) it is a 1.1 competition.
In 2020 it was made a 1.Pro race.
The race has traditionally been run in late February or early March. In 2015 it was moved to mid-February.
In 2007, winner Giuseppe Muraglia was later in the year found positive for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. To the best of my knowledge the 2007 event has no winner.
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Complete professional podium history:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 1992 | Johnny Weltz | Alfonso Gutierrez | Abraham Olano | ||
| 1993 | Viatcheslav Ekimov | Eduardo Chozas | Romes Gainetdinov | ||
| 1994 | Johan Capiot | Asiate Saitov | Jans Koerts | ||
| 1995 | Jean-Pierre Heynderickx | Jo Plansckaert | Edwig van Hooydonck | ||
| 1996 | Wilfried Nelissen | Asier Guenetxea | Jesper Skibby | ||
| 1997 | Massimo Strazzer | Max van Heeswijk | Jan Svorada | ||
| 1998 | Mario Traversoni | Francesco Arazzi | Oscar Freire | ||
| 1999 | Jan Svorada | Nicola Minali | Angel Edo | ||
| 2000 | Isaac Galvez 4hr 36min 51sec |
Jan Svorada @ s.t. |
Markus Zberg @ s.t. |
176 km | 38.143 km/hr |
| 2001 | Tayeb Braikia 4hr 33min 12sec |
Markus Zberg @ s.t. |
Endrio Leoni @ s.t. |
193 km | 42.386 km/hr |
| 2002 | Massimo Strazzer 3hr 54min 36sec |
Markus Zberg @ s.t. |
Marc Lotz @ s.t. |
174 km | 44.501 km/hr |
| 2003 | Luciano Pagliarini 4hr 1min 30sec |
Massimo Strazzer @ s.t. |
Alexei Markov @ s.t. |
187 km | 46.459 km/hr |
| 2004 | Jérôme Pineau 4hr 50min 37sec |
Thomas Voeckler @ s.t. |
Benjamin Noval @ 13sec |
187.2 km | 38.649 km/hr |
| 2005 | José Ivan Gutierrez 4hr 23min 3sec |
Sergi Escobar @ s.t. |
David Muñoz @ s.t. |
173.4 km | 39.55 km/hr |
| 2006 | Francisco Perez 4hr 16min 41sec |
Ricardo Serrano @ 7sec |
Adolfo Garcia @ s.t. |
173.1 km | 40.462 km/hr |
| 2007 | 4hr 18min 40sec DQ'd for dope |
Eduard Vorganov @ s.t. |
Vicente Ballester @ s.t. |
186 km | 43.116 km/hr |
| 2008 | Juan José Haedo 4hr 22min 46sec |
Oscar Freire @ s.t. |
Graeme Brown @ s.t. |
187.9 km | 42.904 km/hr |
| 2009 | Greg Henderson 4hr 2min 45sec |
Graeme Brown @ s.t. |
Stefano Garzelli @ s.t. |
169.4 km | 41.87 km/hr |
| 2010 | Theo Bos 4hr 22min 53sec |
Mark Cavendish @ s.t. |
Graeme Brown @ s.t. |
178.2 km | 40.672 km/hr |
| 2011 | Matteo Pelucchi 4hr 22min 56sec |
José Joaquin Rojas @ s.t. |
Pim Ligthart @ s.t. |
177.6 km | 40.527 km/hr |
| 2012 | Michael Matthews 4hr 24min 17sec |
Borut Bozic @ s.t. |
Roger Kluge @ s.t. |
185.6 km | 42.137 km/hr |
| 2013 | Mark Renshaw 4hr 30min 14sec |
Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg @ s.t. |
Francesco Lasca @ s.t. |
182.3 km | 40.476 km/hr |
| 2014 | Sam Bennett 4hr 21min 33sec |
Juan José Lobato @ s.t. |
Davide Vigano @ s.t. |
178 km | 40.833 km/hr |
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| 2015 | Mark Cavendish 4hr 36min 19sec |
Juan José Lobato @ s.t. |
Mark Renshaw @ s.t. |
185.9 km | 40.376 km/hr |
| 2016 | Leigh Howard 28min 29sec |
Aleksei Tcatevich @ s.t. |
Aleksejs Saramotins @ s.t. |
21 km | 44.236 km/hr |
| 2017 | Magnus Cort Nielsen 4hr 31min 22sec |
Rudiger Selig @ s.t. |
Jens Debusschere @ s.t. |
190.9 km | 42.209 km/hr |
| 2018 | Caleb Ewan 4hr 35min 28sec |
Danny van Poppel @ s.t. |
Timothy Dupont @ s.t. |
185.1 km | 40.317 km/hr |
| 2019 | Pascal Ackermann 4hr 27min 58sec |
Marcel Kittel @ s.t. |
Luka Mezgec @ s.t. |
192.5 km | 43.102 km/hr |
| 2020 | Pascal Ackermann 4hr 24min 4sec |
Alexander Kristoff @ s.t. |
Elia Viviani @ s.t. |
187.6 km | 42.626 km/hr |
| 2021 | Giacomo Nizzolo 4hr 18min 44sec |
Florian Sénéchal @ s.t. |
Martin Laas @ s.t. |
183.3 km | 42.507 km/hr |
| 2022 | Alexander Kristoff 4hr 22min 39sec |
Nacer Bouhanni @ s.t. |
Giacomo Nizzolo @ s.t. |
188.2 km | 42.993 km/hr |
| 2023 | Matteo Moschetti 4hr 43min 16sec |
Arnaud De Lie @ s.t. |
Jordi Meeus @ s.t. |
190.3 km | 40.308 km/hr |
| 2024 | Olav Kooij 4hr 11min 29sec |
Matteo Moschetti @ s.t. |
Matteo Trentin @ s.t. |
192.3 km | 45.880 km/hr |
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