{"id":7637,"date":"2018-05-29T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/gran-exito-gran-fondo-costa-almeria-mojacar\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:33:19","slug":"great-success-first-gran-fondo-mojacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/great-success-first-gran-fondo-mojacar\/","title":{"rendered":"Great success for the First Gran Fondo &#8220;Costa de Almer\u00eda&#8221; cycle race."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The First \u2018Gran Fondo, Costa de Almer\u00eda\u2019 cycle race, held last weekend in Moj\u00e1car, proved to be a resounding success, pleasing organizers and participants alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unanimous opinion was that this event is going to become one of the best on the Spanish calendar, as a well as a very important rival to the most prestigious international cycling challenges.  With perfect organization overall, coupled with the fabulous scenic route, it could well be set to become a higher category race.<\/p>\n<p>All this however, has not just happened on its own, as Moj\u00e1car Tourism Councillor Emmanuel Ag\u00fcero Leclerc, pointed out the ten years of background work that has gone on to bring this event to fruition in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclists from all over Europe are already familiar with Moj\u00e1car and the Costa de Almer\u00eda, which has come about over the years by the town\u2019s presence at the most important international fairs, improving and building up cycling for tourists, with a clear vision of developing sports tourism as an important formula to fight seasonality.<\/p>\n<p>Through the joint efforts of the Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Servigroup hotel group, the prestigious sports company Kortwerg, Velofutur; Moj\u00e1car Council and Almer\u00eda Provincial Council, between February and May, 1,200 cyclists, mainly from Holland and the Netherlands stayed in the area for a week.<\/p>\n<p>This first Gran Fondo Costa de Almer\u00eda attracted an outstanding amount of foreign athletes, with almost 50% of the 190 runners coming from other European countries.  The winner in the male category was Daniel Kogan from the UK, who took nearly 6 hours to complete the 208 km test with its 3,680 metres of altitude. On finishing he praised the top notch organization, spectacular route, as well as the great road safety. In the female category, Els Maes, gained first position.<\/p>\n<p>Now, only a few days after the completion of this winning event, details for next year are already being drawn up.  Emmanuel Ag\u00fcero is clear about the importance of continuing with these projects and collaborating with the hotel sector as well as taking advantage of the Provincial Council\u2019s support, saying &#8220;this is a joint task with the aim of breaking seasonality and consolidating the good results that are beginning to open new doors in the tourism sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First \u2018Gran Fondo, Costa de Almer\u00eda\u2019 cycle race, held last weekend in Moj\u00e1car, proved to be a resounding success, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}