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2026. Cinco etapas. Cinco caminos.

OCG sigue encontrando recorridos inéditos para mostrar nuestra cultura y nuestro territorio. Porque no somos una prueba, somos “Historia de Galicia”.

Una crono para calentar motores.
 
O Gran Camiño arrancó su quinta edición volviendo a uno de los elementos patrimoniales más reconocidos de Galicia, la Torre de Hércules, con una CRI para calentar motores frente al Atlántico más indómito.
De la llanura interior a las playas del norte.
 
En la segunda etapa, el pelotón ciclista viajó desde la llanura interior lucense, A Terra Chá, hasta la costa más al norte de la Comunidad, A Mariña, para acabar a pie de playa.
Un homenaje al ciclismo de base.
 
La tercera etapa de OGC 26 unió dos localidades de profunda tradición ciclista: Carballo y Padrón, combinando los tres elementos que definen Galicia: interior, montaña y costa.
La reina de la alta montaña.
 
La etapa reina de OGC 26 fue la de Ourense, entre Xinzo y Xunqueira de Espadanedo, protagonizada por la montaña y la lucha épica entre corredores y con un final inédito en el ciclismo profesional.
Acabar por todo lo alto.
 
En OGC quisimos mantener la emoción hasta el último minuto. Así, la última etapa recorrió la provincia deportiva por excelencia, Pontevedra, y tuvo un final épico en alto, frente al Atlántico y mirando a Portugal: el Monte Trega.
A Pilgrim
region
We talk about the Camino de Santiago as one of the main tourist attractions in Galicia. Each one of its different routes is travelled every year by hundreds of thousands of people. The beauty of its lands leaves a mark in everybody, and whoever visits Galicia would want to come back again.

The best version of a country is offered by top-level cycling. We understand cycling as an unbeatable tool to promote the different attractions of our land, paths, wild coasts and colourful forests. Galicia offers the best setting for the spectacle of major cycling races.
More than a race

With early editions unworthy of a 2.1 category race, O Gran Camiño is building a record full of top-tier champions.

A journey that began in 2022, where Spanish cycling legend Alejandro Valverde claimed victory (his last as a professional) in a fiercely contested final time trial, followed by two wins for Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard, who dominated each edition he participated in (also racking up 6 stage wins across the two years he competed), and most recently a victory for Canadian Derek Gee, a rising talent who has been impressing the world since 2023 with his remarkable quality. His achievements already include: a stage win in the highly prestigious Critérium du Dauphiné, a ninth-place finish in the 2023 Tour de France (his first and so far only appearance), and a fourth-place finish in the recent Giro d’Italia, battling with the best until the very last day of the race.

Región
peregrina
We talk about the Camino de Santiago as one of the main tourist attractions of Galicia. Each of its different variants are traveled every year by hundreds of thousands of people. The beauty of its lands leaves no one indifferent and those who come, repeat.

The best version of a country is offered by first level cycling. We understand cycling as an unbeatable tool to show the different attractions of our land, roads, wild coasts and colorful forests. Galicia offers the best scenario for the cycling spectacle of the great races.
innovation
and personality

One of the premises we had in mind from the beginning of the project was to take the event to another level, offering different points of view.

In the 2023 edition, we materialised this idea with the use of an FPV drone during the live broadcast. An unprecedented resource, until now, in this type of competition. The device was piloted by Ivan Merino, who leads the national ranking and has extensive experience in Moto GP and Formula 1.

Top-level coverage

The invaluable collaboration of Eurosport and TVG in reaching every screen, along with a highly polished audiovisual production, has ensured that the event has had nothing to envy of the best competitions in the world.

A STORY OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS

Galicia is a region of tradition when it comes to cycling, with a great number of names in the history books of cycling, both in old and modern times. Cyclists such as Rodríguez Barros brothers (of whom Delio still holds the record of stage wins in the Tour of Spain with a total of 39), Álvaro Pino, Jesús Blanco Villar, Óscar Pereiro or “deluxe” domestiques that were part of top-level teams during their professional careers such as Marcos Serrano or José Ángel Vidal, are some of the names that are part of the cycling culture.

Moreover, Galicia had for many years a professional race that brought together the best riders of international cycling.

With a first edition dated in 1933 and despite not happening in some years, the palmares of the race is linked with distinguished names of the cycling history of different eras: Salvador Cardona, Julián Berrendero, Vicente Belda, Marino Lejarreta, Laudelino Cubino, Miguel Induráin, Abraham Olano, Laurent Jalabert, Claudio Chiapucci, Andrew Hampsten, Piotr Ugrumov, Gianni Bugno o Frank Vandenbroucke are a few of the stars that participated in some of its editions.
Big names from our land: Delio Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez (on 3 occasions), Blanco Villar y Marcos Serrano also had the professional Volta a Galicia in their palmares.

This background is an additional incentive for cycling fans and teams to pay special attention to O Gran Camiño, a new stage race that, despite having its first edition in 2022, has tradition and history already in its favour.

Stay up to date on all the news that will be revealed in the coming weeks.

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