{"id":344903,"date":"2025-12-13T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:39:12","slug":"volta-ciclista-a-catalunya-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344903\/","title":{"rendered":"Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swipe to scroll horizontallyVolta a Catalunya overview<\/p>\n<p>Date<\/p>\n<p>March 23-29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Start location<\/p>\n<p>tba<\/p>\n<p>Finish location<\/p>\n<p>tba<\/p>\n<p>Distance<\/p>\n<p>tba<\/p>\n<p>Category<\/p>\n<p>WorldTour<\/p>\n<p>Previous edition<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/volta-ciclista-a-catalunya-2025\/stage-7\/results\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/volta-ciclista-a-catalunya-2025\/stage-7\/results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous winner<\/p>\n<p>Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d\u00a0(Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-volta-ciclista-a-catalunya-information\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Volta Ciclista a Catalunya information<\/p>\n<p id=\"4db4307b-0855-4537-b245-1c687e505adc\">The 2026 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya will be the 105th edition of the stage race, which stands today as the fourth-oldest stage race in the world after the Tour de France, Tour of Belgium, and the Giro d&#8217;Italia.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long race is a staple of the early season, bringing big-name Grand Tour contenders in the north-east Spain region of Catalunya to do battle in the hills around Barcelona and the mountains of the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"4db4307b-0855-4537-b245-1c687e505adc-2\">Mariano Ca\u00f1ardo triumphed at the race seven times in the 1920s and 30s. Spanish cycling heroes Miguel Indurain and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/alejandro-valverde-belmonte\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/alejandro-valverde-belmonte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Valverde<\/a> are next on the honour roll with three wins apiece. The trio have taken 13 of 60 Spanish wins at the race.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Adam Yates, Sergio Higuita, and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/primoz-roglic\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/primoz-roglic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d<\/a> have taken overall victory on routes which include the well-used summit finishes at Vallter 2000, La Molina, and Port Ain\u00e9. The race traditionally concludes with a fast and furious hilly circuit race in Montju\u00efc Park in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 edition saw <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tadej-pogacar\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/tadej-pogacar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates) come out on top with four stage wins en route to a 3:41 overall victory ahead of Mikel Landa (Soudal-Quickstep). Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) was third.<\/p>\n<p>Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d snatched victory in 2025 with an attack on the Montju\u00efc climb 20 kilometres from the finish. He cracked <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/juan-ayuso\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/juan-ayuso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Ayuso<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and rode to a fine victory. The Spaniard finished second overall, 28 seconds down, with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/enric-mas\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/enric-mas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enric Mas<\/a> (Movistar) at 53 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Join Cyclingnews&#8217; coverage of the 2025 Volta a Catalunya with race reports, results, photo galleries, news and race analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swipe to scroll horizontallyVolta a Catalunya overview Date March 23-29, 2026 Start location tba Finish location tba Distance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-344903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}