Volta a Catalunya cycling race gets underway with five-star line-up
Tour starts in Costa Brava town of Sant Feliu de Guíxols with seven stages including three big mountain stages
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2022 La Volta cycling race starts in Costa Brava with several favorites
From Monday to Sunday, cyclists will compete across Catalonia ending the competition in Barcelona
Catalonia's road bicycle tour Director: “Our competition is at the highest level of world cycling”
The Tour of Catalonia, known as ‘La Volta’, was born in 1911 and is the 3rd oldest cycling competition in the world, just behind the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia. Its Director, Rubèn Peris, is proud of the event and says that “‘La Volta’ is something bigger than a race” and is an ambassador for showing Catalonia to the rest of the world, included in the UCI World Tour calendar. From the 23rd to the 29th of March, this competition will hold its 95th edition with the presence of some of the best riders in the world such as Chris Froome, Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodríguez and Alberto Contador. The CNA interviewed Peris a few days before the start of the race, which "has reached an extremely high level and which is always co-ordinated by amateurs", showing "how strong the associations’ network in Catalonia is".
Contador wins the 2011 Catalonia’s Tour
The ‘Volta Ciclista a Catalunya’ celebrates its centenary in style. Alberto Contador has won the centenary edition of Catalonia’s cycling ‘Tour’. Michelle Scarponi and Daniel Martin are second and third respectively.
A hundred years of the ‘Volta Ciclista a Catalunya’
The Catalan race is one of the oldest cycling events in the world. The ‘Volta’ started in 1911, 24 years before Spain’s own ‘Vuelta’ and only eight years after the first Tour de France.