Date | Early-February |
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Region | South France |
Local name(s) | Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise (French) |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | One-day |
Organiser | La Marseillaise |
First edition | 1980 |
Editions | 38 (as of 2017) |
First winner | Leo van Vliet (NED) |
Most wins |
Eddy Planckaert (BEL) Edwig Van Hooydonck (BEL) Baden Cooke (AUS) (2 times) |
Most recent | Arthur Vichot (FRA) |
Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February around the city of Marseille, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually the first race of the European calendar, one day before the stage-race Étoile de Bessèges, which is held in the same region.