2017 Tour of the Basque Country

The 2017 Tour of the Basque Country was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 8 April.

[1][2] The race was won for the first time by Alejandro Valverde of the Movistar Team,[3] who took the race lead on the penultimate day after winning the queen stage in Eibar, before further extending the lead by finishing second in the final-day individual time trial; Valverde's finishes on those stages aided him to take the points classification from Team Sunweb's Michael Matthews at the death.

Valverde finished 17 seconds clear of four-time race winner Alberto Contador (Trek–Segafredo) while the all-Spanish podium was completed by the national time trial champion, Ion Izagirre, a further four seconds in arrears of Contador for the Bahrain–Merida team.

The full route of the 2017 Tour of the Basque Country was announced on 23 March 2017.

For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received a yellow jersey.