2018 Prueba Villafranca – Ordiziako Klasika
Male Team 25 Jul

Prueba Villafranca - Ordiziako Klasika

165.7 Kilometers
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Participants list

  1. Jorge Arcas
  2. Carlos Barbero
  3. Nuno Bico
  4. Héctor Carretero
  5. Jaime Castrillo
  6. Víctor De la Parte
  7. Antonio Pedrero
  8. Eduardo Sepúlveda
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TV

ETB1 will be showing highlight 25-minute highlights, just after the short TDF stage finishing atop the Portet. The signal, also available at www.eitb.eus on demand, will start around 6pm.
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Timetable

With stage 17 of the Tour de France being so short, there won't be any time clashes between the Prueba Villafranca and the 'Grande Boucle'. The race will start at 10am local and finish around 2pm.
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Social Media

The race has a Twitter account for the first time in 2018: @PVOK_. The hashtags used by the organisers, the AD Chapel Gorri, are #95PruebaVillafranca and #95OrdiziakoKlasika. Over @Movistar_Team we'll keep an eye on our boys' performances, just before a key day in the Tour de France.
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Score

The Movistar Team has won the race four times. It did in 1985 (Gastón), 2007 ('Purito'), 2008 (Karpets) and 2014, with local hero Gorka Izagirre.

Route

Ordizia (165.7km)
25 July
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Analysis

The 95th edition of the Clásica de Ordizia, the first summer race for the Movistar Team on their road of the Vuelta a España, keeps alive the event with the most history of all raced in Spain. Always held coinciding with the village’s yearly celebrations, on July 25th, the also-known-as Prueba Villafranca will feature a classic, recognisable route: 165km with chances for both climbers, punchy classics specialists or event sprinters.

The race comprises two circuits. The first one includes three climbs of the Alto de Abaltzisketa, a 3km ascent with constant slopes around 7%. The second, starting 70km from the end, combines that climb with two ascents to Altzo, around 2.5km with more irregular gradients, reaching 15% maximum and averaging just under 6%. Abaltzisketa will be the last climb, 11km from a slightly uphill finish.