Gran Fondo Pico de las Nieves

3 DECEMBER 2023

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What is Gran Fondo Pico de las Nieves?

The cycling challenge

The TotalEnergies Gran Fondo Pico de las Nieves is the cycling event par excellence in sports calendars around the world. Accredited with the UCI seal, cyclists face the challenge of completing 138 kilometres, 1,915 metres of altitude and 23% gradients, one of the toughest mountain passes in Europe, a challenge within the reach of very few. But we have more challenges, the Starter and Advanced categories are waiting for you so that through perseverance, effort and overcoming you can complete all the routes until you reach the Pico de las Nieves.

Choose a category for the 3rd of December, we are waiting for you!

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Where is the event?

Telde, host city

Visiting the 101 km2 of this municipality will undoubtedly bring you closer to the true heartland of the Canary Islands. This ancient city preserves one of the richest landscape, archaeological and historical-artistic heritages of the archipelago.

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Who is the event for?

Gran Fondo Pico de las Nieves is an event for all cyclists.

Find the category that suits you best

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Secretariat and bib pick-up

The time and place of the race bib pick-up will be published soon.

Gran Fondo Pico de las Nieves

  • Total Distance: 138 km
  • Total elevation gain: 3522 m
  • Maximum altitude: +1935 m at Pico Las Nieves
  • Born from 2003 onwards

Advanced Category

  • Total Distance: 88 km
  • Total elevation gain: 1,600 m
  • Maximum altitude: 817 m at Alto de Temisas

Starter Category

  • Total Distance: 25.4 km
  • Total elevation gain: 600 m
  • Maximum altitude: 606 m at Alto de los Lomitos
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An obligatory mountain pass for all cyclists visiting the island of Gran Canaria.

Sport.es
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We must pay special attention to the development we carry on our bike so as not to put our foot down, as the climb is terrifying

TopBici
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The effort level coefficient given by the canarian pass was 504, well above the 326 and 328 of the Angliru and Zoncolan or the 193 of the Tourmalet.

Ciclored
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It is a real colossus of some 30 km and 2,000 metres of accumulated height gain, with gradients of around 20%

Ciclismo a fondo
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Gran Canaria is that island of good weather. It was tailor-made for sportsmen and women.

It is the winter destination of a thousand professional teams from all over Europe. And for anyone who wants to do sport in one of the diverse landscapes of the island's intricate orography.

Patronato de Turismo de Gran Canaria
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Here the routes, both mountain and road, are characterised by the almost total absence of plains and the constant presence of volcanic stones.

Great tradition in the organisation of events, in the reception of top-level sports entities and European sports figures.

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