Cholet-Pays de Loire

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Cholet-Pays de la Loire
Race details

Date	Mid-March
Region	Pays-de-la-Loire, Belgium
English name	Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire
Local name(s)	Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire (French)
Nickname(s)	Primavera of the Mauges
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
History
First edition	1978
Editions	31 (as of 2008)
First winner	Jacques Bossis
Most wins	Jaan Kirsipuu (3 times)
Most recent	Janek Tombak

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.

[edit] Name of the race

1978-1987: Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins

1988-1989: Grand Prix de Cholet-Mauléon-Moulins

1990-2007: Grand Prix de Cholet - Pays de Loire

[edit] Winners

		Rider		Team
1978		Jacques Bossis
1979		Pierre Bazzo
1980		Roger Legeay
1981		Roger Legeay
1982		Pierre Bazzo
1983		Eric Dall'Armellina
1984		Pascal Poisson
1985		Marc Madiot
1986		Domenique Lecrocq
1987		Frédéric Garnier
1988		Patrick Onnockx
1989		Frank Boucanville
1990		Kim Andersen
1991		Sammie Moreels
1992		Laurent Desbiens
1993		Marc Bouillon

		Rider		Team
1994		Laurent Madouas
1995		Frank Vandenbroucke
1996		Stéphane Heulot
1997		Jaan Kirsipuu
1998		Jaan Kirsipuu
1999		Jaan Kirsipuu
2000		Jens Voigt
2001		Florent Brard
2002		Jimmy Casper
2003		Christophe Mengin
2004		Bert De Waele
2005		Pierrick Fedrigo
2006		Chris Sutton
2007		Stéphane Augé
2008		Janek Tombak