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Clásica de Almería

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1103825 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Clásica de Almería (English: Classic of Almería) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February or March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in its first six years. In 1992, it became fully professional. From 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, and became part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020 as a 1.Pro event.

Since 2023, a women's event has been held. In 2026, the women's race joined the UCI ProSeries.

Editorial summary

“Clásica de Almería” enters the record as cycling race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Clásica, Almería and cycling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1992, 2005, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Clásica, Almería and cycling.
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Why this record matters

“Clásica de Almería” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Clásica, Almería and cycling provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1103825. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1992, 2005 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clásica de Almería” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.