Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

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Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
Race details
Date	Early-February
Region	South France
Local name(s)	Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise (French)
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
Organiser	La Marseillaise
History
First edition	1980
Editions	29 (as of 2008)
First winner	Leo van Vliet
Most wins	Eddy Planckaert Edwig Van Hooydonck Baden Cooke (2 times)
Most recent	Hervé Duclos-Lassalle

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.

[edit] Winners

		Rider		Team
1980		Leo van Vliet
1981		Jan Bogaert
1982		Bernard Hinault
1983		Jan Raas
1984		Eddy Planckaert
1985		Charly Mottet
1986		Eddy Planckaert
1987		Johnny Weltz
1988		Ad Wijnands
1989		Thierry Claveyrolat
1990		Etienne De Wilde
1991		Edwig Van Hooydonck
1992		Edwig Van Hooydonck
1993		Didier Rous
1994		Gilles Delion

		Rider		Team
1995		Stéphane Hennebert
1996		Fabiano Fontanelli
1997		Richard Virenque
1998		Marco Saligari
1999		Frank Vandenbroucke
2000		Emmanuel Magnien
2001		Jacob Storm Piil
2002		Xavier Jan
2003		Ludo Dierckxsens
2004		Baden Cooke
2005		Nicki Sørensen
2006		Baden Cooke
2007		Jeremy Hunt
2008		Hervé Duclos-Lassalle