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Race details | |
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Date | Mid-March |
Region | Pays de la Loire, France |
English name | Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire |
Local name(s) | Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire (in French) |
Nickname(s) | Primavera of the Mauges |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single-day |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1978 |
Editions | 45 (as of 2024) |
First winner | Jacques Bossis (FRA) |
Most wins | Jaan Kirsipuu (EST) (3 wins) |
Most recent | Paul Lapeira (FRA) |
Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Cholet, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is often called Primavera of the Mauges due to its similarities with Belgian semi-classics because of the wind, short hills and some rain on the way to Cholet.