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Also known as Milan-San Remo, Milan-Sanremo

Italian one-day cycling race, one of the five monuments

Key facts

Date
Mid-March
Region
Northwest Italy
English name
Milan–Sanremo
Local name
Milano–Sanremo (in Italian)
Nickname
La Classicissima di primavera (in Italian)
Discipline
Road
Competition
UCI World Tour
Type
One-day cycling race
Organiser
RCS Sport
Race director
Mauro Vegni
Web site
www .milanosanremo .it
First edition
1907 ( 1907 )
Editions
117 (as of 2026)
First winner
Lucien Petit-Breton ( FRA )
Most wins
Eddy Merckx ( BEL ) (7 wins)
Most recent
Tadej Pogačar ( SLO )

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Milan-San Remo
Country
Italy
Official website
www.milanosanremo.it
Image
Petacchi MSR 2005.jpg
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Milan-Sanremo
topic's main category
Category:Milan–San Remo
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inception
1907-00-00
event interval
1
season starts
March
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Encyclopedic overview

Milan–Sanremo, also called "The Spring classic", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo , in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 kilometres (185 mi), it is the longest professional one-day race in modern road cycling in Europe. It is the first major classic race of the season, usually held on the third Saturday of March. The first edition was held in 1907.

It is traditionally the first of the five Monuments of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in cycling. It was the opening race of the UCI Road World Cup series until the series was replaced by the UCI ProTour in 2005 and the World Tour in 2011.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milan - San Remo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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