Étoile de Bessèges
Race details | |
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Date | Early February |
Region | Gard department, Occitanie |
English name | Star of Bessèges |
Local name(s) | Étoile de Bessèges (in French) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Stage race |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1971 |
Editions | 49 (as of 2019) |
First winner | Jean-Luc Molineris (FRA) |
Most wins | Jean-Luc Molineris (FRA) Jo Planckaert (BEL) Jérôme Coppel (FRA) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Benoît Cosnefroy (FRA) |
The Étoile de Bessèges (Template:Lang-en) is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a stage race run over five days in 1974. Since 2005, it is on the calendar of the UCI Europe Tour as a 2.1 event and features as the earliest stage races of the European season.[1]
The Étoile de Bessèges is the first of several stage races held in the hilly South of France in February, preceding La Méditerranéenne, the Tour du Haut Var and the Tour La Provence.[2] These early-season races are competed mainly by French teams and are considered preparations for Paris–Nice, the first European World Tour event in March.[2]
Winners
Year | Country | Rider | Team |
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1971 | France | Jean-Luc Molineris | Sonolor-Lejeune |
1972 | France | Jean-Luc Molineris | Sonolor |
1973 | France | Robert Mintkiewicz | Sonolor |
1974 | France | Jacques Esclassan | Peugeot-BP-Michelin |
1975 | France | Patrick Beon | Peugeot-BP-Michelin |
1976 | France | Maurice Le Guilloux | Gan-Mercier |
1977 | Belgium | Willy Planckaert | Maes-Mini Flat |
1978 | Germany | Dietrich Thurau | IJsboerke-Gios |
1979 | France | Jacques Michaud | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1980 | Belgium | Franky De Gendt | TI–Raleigh |
1981 | Netherlands | Jan Raas | TI–Raleigh |
1982 | Netherlands | Cees Priem | TI–Raleigh |
1983 | Netherlands | Bert Oosterbosch | TI–Raleigh |
1984 | Belgium | Eddy Planckaert | Panasonic |
1985 | Belgium | Guy Nulens | Panasonic |
1986 | Switzerland | Niki Rüttimann | La Vie Claire |
1987 | France | Ronan Pensec | Z-Peugeot |
1988 | Netherlands | Adri Van Der Poel | PDM-Concorde |
1989 | Belgium | Etienne De Wilde | Histor-Sigma |
1990 | Netherlands | Frans Maassen | Buckler |
1991 | Netherlands | Ad Wijnands | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1992 | Switzerland | Beat Zberg | Helvetia |
1993 | France | Armand De Las Cuevas | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1994 | Netherlands | Jean-Paul van Poppel | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1995 | Ukraine | Sergei Oetsjakov | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1996 | Czech Republic | Ján Svorada | Panaria-Vinavil |
1997 | France | Patrice Halgand | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1998 | Belgium | Jo Planckaert | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1999 | France | David Lefèvre | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2000 | Belgium | Jo Planckaert | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2001 | Belgium | Nico Eeckhout | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2002 | Australia | Robbie McEwen | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2003 | Italy | Fabio Baldato | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2004 | France | Laurent Brochard | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2005 | France | Freddy Bichot | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2006 | Belgium | Frederik Willems | Chocolade Jacques |
2007 | Belgium | Nick Nuyens | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2008 | Russia | Iouri Trofimov | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2009 | France | Thomas Voeckler | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2010 | France | Samuel Dumoulin | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2011 | France | Anthony Ravard | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2012 | France | Jérôme Coppel | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2013 | France | Jonathan Hivert | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2014 | Sweden | Tobias Ludvigsson | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2015 | Luxembourg | Bob Jungels | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2016 | France | Jérôme Coppel | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2017 | France | Lilian Calmejane | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2018 | France | Tony Gallopin | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2019 | France | Christophe Laporte | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2020 | France | Benoit Cosnefroy | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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References
- ^ "Etoile de Bessèges - Et. 5 : Les réactions". directvelo.com (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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