Étoile de Bessèges

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Étoile de Bessèges

Race details
Date	Early February
English name	Star of Bessèges
Local name(s)	Étoile de Bessèges (French)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Stage race
History
First edition	1971
Editions	38 (as of 2008)
First winner	Jean-Luc Molineris
Most wins	2 wins: Jean-Luc Molineris Jo Planckaert
Most recent	Yuri Trofimov

The Étoile de Bessèges (English: Star of Bessèges) is an early-season short road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Southern France, around Bessèges. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour and features as he first stage race of the European season.

[edit] Palmarès

Rider Team 1971 Jean-Luc Molineris 1972 Jean-Luc Molineris 1973 Robert Mintkiewicz 1974 Jacques Esclassan 1975 Patrick Beon 1976 Maurice Le Guilloux 1977 Willy Planckaert 1978 Dietrich Thurau 1979 Jacques Michaud 1980 Franky De Gendt 1981 Jan Raas 1982 Cees Priem 1983 Bert Oosterbosch 1984 Eddy Planckaert 1985 Guy Nulens 1986 Niki Rüttimann 1987 Ronan Pensec 1988 Adri van der Poel 1989 Etienne De Wilde 1990 Frans Maassen

Rider Team 1991 Ad Wijnands 1992 Beat Zberg 1993 Armand De Las Cuevas 1994 Jean-Paul van Poppel 1995 Sergei Oetsjakov 1996 Jan Svorada 1997 Patrice Halgand 1998 Jo Planckaert 1999 David Lefevre 2000 Jo Planckaert 2001 Nico Eeckhout 2002 Robbie McEwen 2003 Fabio Baldato 2004 Laurent Brochard 2005 Freddy Bichot 2006 Frederik Willems 2007 Nick Nuyens Cofidis 2008 Iouri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom