[sc name="texto_estandar" ]Mobel Sport confirms its support to the race in an agreement signed by Bartolomé Molino López, managing director of Mobel Sport, and Francisco Guzmán, director of the Vuelta a Murcia at the company's headquarters: "It is an honour that a company from Murcia supports the race and is the one who dresses the leader after so many years", said Guzmán to the media. [/sc]
[sc name="texto_estandar" ]The Vuelta a Murcia (officially, Vuelta Ciclista a la Región de Murcia - Gran Premio Banco Sabadell) is a professional cycling competition, of UCI Europe Tour 1.1 category, which takes place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in mid-February[/sc].
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It was created in 1981 as an amateur competition. After four years in unofficial national categories, it became fully professional on the international calendar in 1989.
The route usually includes the mythical Alto del Collado Bermejo, a summit that usually makes a difference and which since 2004 has been called Cima Marco Pantani, in honour of the Italian cyclist who won the 1999 edition.
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Since its creation it has had 5 and 6 stages, but in recent years it has been reduced to 3 and 2 stages and since 2013 it has been a one-day race, as a "classic". It is since 2019 and with the sponsorship of Mobel Sport, among others, that it has managed to recover the format of a stage race with 2 days of competition.
Illustrious names appear in the list of winners of the Vuelta Ciclista a la Región de Murcia such as Pedro Delgado, Miguel Indurain, a regular at the Vuelta in the years he won five consecutive Tour de France, Marco Pantani, Melchor Mauri, Cadel Evans, Jan Ulrich, Stefano Garzelli, Vinokourov, Lance Armstrong (he took part before his retirement and after his return in 2010 in what was his last Vuelta in Spain before announcing his definitive retirement), Bradley Wiggins, Denis Menchov, Alberto Contador, Nairo Quintana, Mark Cavendish, Philippe Gilbert, Chris Froome, Luis Léon Sánchez and the Murcian Alejandro Valverde, who holds the record for overall victories, four.
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