Date | Early-March |
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Region | Almería, Spain |
English name | Classic of Almería |
Local name(s) | Clásica de Almería (Spanish) |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single-day |
First edition | 1986 |
Editions | 32 (as of 2017) |
First winner | Miguel Ángel Martínez Torres (ESP) |
Most wins | Massimo Strazzer (ITA) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Magnus Cort (DNK) |
The Clásica de Almería (English: Classic of Almería) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in its first six years. In 1992, it became fully professional.