The interior of the Marina Alta will be the scene of the "Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana" of cycling The interior of the Marina Alta will be the scene of the "Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana" of cycling
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The interior of the Marina Alta will be the scene of the "Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana" of cycling

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Event Date: January 22, 2023
Event type: Sport
Site: Pego, Sagra, Orba, Murla, Benigembla and Castell de Castells
Event finished

Next Sunday, January 22, the “Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969” of the Gran Premi Valencià for cycling will be held with a 190 km route between Valencia and La Nucía. A total of 19 national and international teams, some from the highest category, will participate in this race, which opens the UCI calendar in Europe.

For their part, the municipalities of Marina Alta, Pego, Sagra, Orba, Murla, Benigembla and Castell de Castells, together with Tàrbena, Bolulla and Callosa d'En Sarrià are other Alicante towns through which this test will take place, which, for the first time since its rebirth in 2021, it will be part of the UCI 1.1 category, allowing the best teams to contest it.

The cyclists will have to face two scoring difficulties in the last part of the race: the Alto de Barx (3rd category) and the Alto de Bixauca (2nd category) with only 23 kilometers to go. The special sprint will be located in Pego at kilometer 129 of the career.

Among the teams participating in the Clàssica, which marks the start of the men's professional season in Europe, five from the UCI World Team category stand out, among them the Spanish team Movistar Team, the French Cofidis, Arkea Samsic and AG2R Citroën Team and the Australians Team Jayco AIula. In addition, nine other teams from the UCI ProTeam category will join this sporting event.

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