Vattenfall Cyclassics
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| Date | Mid to late August |
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| Region | Hamburg, Germany |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI World Tour |
| Type | Single-day race |
| First edition | 1996 |
| Editions | 21 (as of 2016) |
| First winner |
 Rossano Brasi (ITA)
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| Most wins |  Tyler Farrar (USA) (2 wins) |
| Most recent |
 Caleb Ewan (AUS)
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The EuroEyes Cyclassics, formerly HEW Cyclassics and Vattenfall Cyclassics, is an annual one-day professional and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is always around 250 km. The course's most significant difficulty is Waseberg hill in Blankenese, which is addressed three times in the race finale.
It is Germany's only event on the UCI World Tour calendar. The race is organized by IRONMAN Unlimited Events Germany GmbH, which also organizes the annual Velothon Berlin.
An important part of the Cyclassics is the Jedermannrennen ("Everyman's race"), an amateur/cyclosportif event held on the same day and on the same roads as the professional race. Bike fanatics can participate in amateur tour races over 55 km, 100 km and 155 km. The number of participants is limited to 22.000 amateurs and tickets must be reserved months in advance.
The event was created in 1996 as a 1.5 race, the lowest classification of professional races. The first edition was its shortest ever, totaling just 160 km, won by Italian Rossano Brasi. HEW, Hamburg's Electricity Works, served as the race's title sponsor. In 1997 Jan Ullrich won the second edition amid hordes of fans, two weeks after winning the Tour de France, and the race gained prestige fast.
With cycling's fast-growing popularity in Germany in the 1990s, the race became part of the UCI Road World Cup in 1998, cycling's ten highest-classified one-day races. It replaced the Wincanton Classic, Britain's only cycling classic, as the seventh leg of the World Cup. Dutchman Leon van Bon outsprinted Michele Bartoli to win the third edition; the distance was increased to 253 km.
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