Grand Prix La Marseillaise
Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise, formerly known as the 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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| Region | South France |
| Local name(s) | Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise (in French) |
| Discipline | Road race |
| Competition | UCI Europe Tour 1.1 |
| Type | One-day race |
| Organiser | La Marseillaise |
| Web site | journal-lamarseillaise |
| History | |
| First edition | 1980 |
| Editions | 45 (as of 2024) |
| First winner | Leo van Vliet (NED) |
| Most wins | Eddy Planckaert (BEL) Edwig Van Hooydonck (BEL) Baden Cooke (AUS) (2 times) |
| Most recent | Kevin Geniets (LUX) |
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