The 2022 La Drôme Classic, officially the Faun Drôme Classic due to sponsorships, was the ninth edition of the
Drôme Classic cycle race. It was held on 27 February 2022 as a category 1.Pro race on the
2022 UCI ProSeries
The 2022 UCI ProSeries is the third season of the UCI ProSeries, the second tier road bicycle racing, road cycling tour, below the UCI World Tour, but above the various regional UCI Continental Circuits.
The original calendar consisted of 56 event ...
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The race started and finished in
Étoile-sur-Rhône
Étoile-sur-Rhône (, literally ''Étoile on Rhône''; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Drôme Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region in southeastern France.
Population
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and featured several climbs throughout.
It formed a pair of races on the same weekend with the
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
Faun-Ardèche Classic, held on the previous day.
Teams
Eleven of the eighteen
UCI WorldTeam
A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...
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UCI ProTeams, and five
UCI Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...
teams made up the twenty-two teams that participated in the race, with a total of 146 riders. 113 riders finished.
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Result
References
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La Drôme Classic
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
La Drôme Classic