The Classic Grand Besançon – Doubs, the new professional race on the 2021 world calendar

Historic assembly of the French and worldwide biking season since 1953, the Sarthe circuit 2021 – scheduled for April 6 to 9 – has simply been canceled and postponed for one 12 months by its organizers. Due to the world well being scenario and the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

An unsure context which, on the different hand, has not slowed down the motivation of lovers of the “little queen” in Franche-Comté. The membership Jura Cycling (organizer of the Tour du Jura) and the affiliation Team Organization Marchaux (TOM) -in the outskirts of Bisontine- are certainly embarking on the creation of a new professional race scheduled from this spring 2021 on the world calendar. Her title : the Classic Grand Besançon – Doubs, which can happen on April 16.

Is the day earlier than the new … Tour du Jura (April 17) which turns into in the future race this 12 months: with a purpose to bounce again healthily after its cancellation – brought on by confinement – in May 2020 and thus have the ability to climb in the hierarchy of worldwide races on the calendar UCI.

Thibaut Pinot’s Groupama-FDJ, particularly, in all probability at the begin

The remaining route of this Classic Grand Besançon – Doubs is below improvement, however its organizers have already broadly outlined: 197 km in complete, 2,000 m of elevation acquire, 35 cities crossed round Besançon, the place the begin might be fictitious in the metropolis heart, on the Esplanade des Droits. And to complete, a remaining circuit of 20 km to be coated twice round Marchaux, the city that can host the end line.

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Then, the subsequent day, it’s a route – additionally being finalized – of 165 km who might be ready for the peloton Jura tour 2021. Departure and arrival at Lons-le-Saunier, not removed from the city corridor (avenue Paul Seguin) with a route passing particularly via the sectors of Lac de Chalain and even Château-Chalon.

And additionally because of their placement in the calendar, on April 16 and 17, the two Classics from Franche-Comté (24 groups of 6 riders every time) may effectively entice much more world-famend cyclists. The organizers, for instance, are already virtually sure of with the ability to depend on the presence ofAG2R-Citröen and a few Groupama FDJ, whose chief Thibaut Pinot deliberate to run the “almost neighbor” Tour of the Alps 2021 scheduled from … April 19 to 23 in Italy and Austria.

The The final time a world-class peloton set off from Besançon dates again to July 16, 2014, on the event of the eleventh stage “Besançon – Oyonnax” of the a hundred and first of the Tour de France.

An general finances of 400,000 euros minimal to finish

The monetary side, for its half, can be in the technique of being closed. With the help of the numerous native communities (Grand Besançon Métropole, City of Besançon, Departmental Council of Doubs and its counterpart in Jura, Lons Agglomeration Community Space, Bourgogne Franche-Comté Regional Council) and non-public sponsors -that finally, we should proceed to canvass and seduce- with out forgetting the valuable logistical help, significantly from theBisontine Cyclist Friendly, the organizing workforce for the Classic Grand Besançon – Doubs and the Tour du Jura considers itself able to elevating the minimal 400,000 euros required in the coming weeks.

This world finances will even be used to prepare, in parallel, a ladies’s race on every of the two days. A feminine peloton which can embrace round 80 runners at the federal stage and which might be sponsored – however not on the bike – the Franc-Comtoise Juliette Labous : the professional bicycle owner (Team Sunweb) the reigning French time trial champion!