Mallorca Challenge

Analysis: Belgian team comes out swinging to help ensure WorldTour future while powerhouse squads wait for more lucrative racing.

Soudal Quick-Step sprinter strikes in the final day of racing to earn the team's second victory of 2023.

The Frenchman is kickstarting his 2023 campaign in Mallorca after a year marked by injuries.

Eritrean out-kicked star-studded field to win second day at Mallorca Challenge.

Spain's 'BalaVerde' not nostalgic yet as he kicks off 2022 with a solid debut behind winner Brandon McNulty.

The Australian rider was left without a contract at the start of January after the Qhubeka-NextHash team folded.

UAE Emirates star opens up the 2022 season with a long-distance solo attack.

A full racing calendar through February will keep men's and women's peloton busy across the Iberian peninsula.

Here's all you need to know about the men's and women's races that will get the season rolling in the coming weeks.

Series of one-day races postponed to May due to banning of large public gatherings on Balearic island.

John Degenkold (Trek-Segafredo) captured his second win of the four-day Challenge Mallorca on Sunday at the Trofeo Palma.

Tim Wellens takes his first win of 2018 by winning a two-man sprint at Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana at Challenge Mallorca.

John Degenkolb started his season on a high note, sprinting to victory in the Trofeo Campos, the first day of the Challenge Mallorca.

Alejandro Valverde's recovery from a catastrophic knee injury has gone flawlessly. Now he's ready to return to racing — and win.

André Greipel closes out the four-day Mallorca Challenge race with a sprint win on Sunday.

Former world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara won his first race of 2016 at the Mallorca Challenge.

Gianluca Brambilla opens his 2016 account as winner in the second race of the Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

German Andre Greipel makes a quick start to his 2016 campaign, winning his first race on European soil this season.

Matteo Pelucchi takes his second victory of the 2015 Mallorca Challenge, out-kicking André Greipel and Ben Swift

Alejandro Valverde wins round 3 at the Mallorca Challenge as teammate Rory Sutherland crashes out with a broken collarbone

MTN-Qhubeka's Stephen Cummings dispatches Valverde on a hilly day of racing at the Mallorca Challenge

Pelucchi notches IAM Cycling's first European win of the season, out-sprinting Elia Viviani, Nacer Bouhanni, and André Greipel

Alejandro Valverde, Dan Martin, and Andre Greipel will all begin their 2015 race seasons in Mallorca Spain's four-day event

Belgian makes it two in a row for Omega Pharma in Mallorca

Polish all-rounder attacks through the breakaway to take a solo victory

Former Tour champion says he won't target grand tour wins any more, but will use the Vuelta to prepare for the time trial at the world championships

Italian wins for second time in two days at the Mallorca Challenge

Modolo wins the Trofeo Palma, the first day of the four-race Mallorca Challenge

In the wake of bad weather forcing the cancellation of two races this weekend, here's a look at cycling's on/off relationship with Mother Nature

The 2012 Tour de France champ is looking at the bigger picture this season, which includes a crack at the Giro

Howard wins for second time on Mallorca

Spaniard tops four-up sprint after late breakaway with Henao, Gesink and Costa

The Trofeo Palma ends with a bunch sprint after a break is reeled in short of the line

Life does not pause

Snow and icy roads prompted officials to cancel the final day of the four-stage Mallorca Challenge

Lemoine was rushed to hospital after a bad fall during the Mallorca Challenge

Fenn kicked his way to another hectic sprint victory in a windy race that saw some big names crashing

1. Andrew FENN, (GBR) Opq, +3:52:51 2. Alexander PORSEV, (RUS) Kat, +0 3. Matteo PELUCCHI, (ITA) Euc, +0

Contador will race tomorrow on the eve of the CAS decision in his ongoing clenbuterol case

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Confirmed to race Sunday in Mallorca

World champion Mark Cavendish will make his Team Sky debut at the Tour of Qatar next month

Alejandro Valverde will be making his comeback in Movistar colors on Wednesday

The Schleck brothers will headline the 2012 Mallorca Challenge next February.

For the second consecutive day, Tyler Farrar kicks to victory at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

Riders and teams went toe to toe with the UCI on Sunday at the Mallorca Challenge.

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) won Sunday’s Trofeo Palma, the first round in the five-day 2011 Mallorca Challenge, but it appears that the UCI may refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the event after riders refused to compete without radio earpieces as per the governing body’s edict.

Controversial Italian Danilo Di Luca returns to competition this weekend at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain with his new Katusha team.

The five-day “star” of Bessèges dates back to the early 1970s and has since grown into France’s first stage race of the year.

The traditional opening race of Spain's racing calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – will be saved after all and will run next month as scheduled.

Spain’s traditional opening race to the cycling calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – is at risk of being cancelled just weeks before the start of the 2011 season.

André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) surged to victory in Thursday’s Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova to close out the five-day Mallorca Challenge.

Promising Portuguese talent Rui Costa (Caisse d’Epargne) delivered a big win in Wednesday’s fourth day of the Mallorca Challenge in the 143km stage starting and finishing in Deià.

Linus Gerdemann (Milram) took an early-season win in Tuesday’s mountainous Trofeo Inca at the Mallorca Challenge. The former Tour de France yellow jersey-wearer escaped over the day’s final hurdle at the Cat. 1 Puig Major in the 157.2km stage over the highest climbs on Mallorca to claim victory ahead of two fellow escapees.

Óscar Freire wins the sprint to take the Trofeo Cala Millor.

This week's racing brings the Mallorca Challenge, the Tour Mediterranéen and the Tour of Qatar.

Robbie McEwen's back in the winner's circle after taking Sunday's Trofeo Palma, the kickoff to the five-day Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

With racing underway in Australia and South America, it’s only a matter of days before the 2010 calendar clicks into gear in Europe. The first official races on the European continent will be the Giro di Regio Calabria in Italy on Jan. 30 and the GP de Ouverture La Marsellaise on Jan. 31 in France.

In what’s a series of one-day races over a five-day period on Spain’s pleasant Mallorca island, the Challenge is a popular early-season race for pros looking to enjoy some mild weather with the first taste of racing. There are some steep hills, but nothing too extreme for February legs.

Champion triathlete Iván Raña is giving up on his one-year experiment trying to race in the professional ranks to return full-time to triathlon.