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Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
Date Early-February
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 (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.


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