Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire is a single-day

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held annually in March in

Cholet Cholet (, probably from Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a commune of western France, in the Maine-et-Loire department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture, Angers. ...

, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the

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. It is often called ''Primavera of the Mauges'' due to its similarities with Belgian semi-classics because of the wind, short hills and some rain on the way to Cholet.

Name of the race

:1978–1987: ''Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins'' :1988–1989: ''Grand Prix de Cholet-Mauléon-Moulins'' :1990–2007: ''Grand Prix de Cholet – Pays de Loire''

Winners

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cholet-Pays De Loire Recurring sporting events established in 1978 1978 establishments in France