Date Early February Type Stage race Competition UCI Continental Circuits First winner Jean-Luc Molineris (FRA) Edition 47 (2017) | English name Star of Bessèges Editions 47 (as of 2017) Discipline Road bicycle racing First edition 1971 | |
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Region Gard department,
Occitanie Local name(s) Étoile de Bessèges (French) Instances 2017 Étoile de Bessèges, 2016 Étoile de Bessèges | ||
toile de bess ges 2017 seconde tape et victoire d alexander kristoff
The Étoile de Bessèges (English: Star of Bessèges) 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.
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- toile de bess ges 2017 seconde tape et victoire d alexander kristoff
- toile de bess ges 2017 premi re tape et victoire d arnaud d mare
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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. 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.