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The Belgian National Road Race Championship is a cycling race which decides who will become Belgian national champion for the year to come. The men's record for most wins is currently held by one of the most successful Belgian sprinters, Tom Steels , who managed to take four road championship titles.
[5] [6] The one major Belgian race, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, was in the French-speaking South. As the gloom increased, Odile Defraye became the first Belgian winner of the Tour de France in 1912. [7] He was a 20-year-old Fleming and, although he rode for Alcyon, a French team, he symbolized a potential rise for Belgian cycling.
The 2024 Tour of Belgium (known as the 2024 Baloise Belgium Tour for sponsorship purposes) was the 93rd edition of the Tour of Belgium road cycling stage race, which took place from 12 to 16 June 2024. The category 2.Pro event formed a part of the 2024 UCI ProSeries.
Among the best-known road races, two out of the five monuments of cycling are held in Belgium: the Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.The Tour of Flanders is the final race of the Flemish Cycling Week, held in late March and early April, along with the Classic Bruges–De Panne, E3 Saxo Bank Classic, Gent–Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen.
The 2021 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was a Belgian road cycling one-day race that took place on 25 April 2021. It was the 107th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 16th event of the 2021 UCI World Tour, and was won by Tadej Pogačar.
The 2023 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was a Belgian road cycling one-day race that took place on 23 April 2023. It was the 109th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 19th event of the 2023 UCI World Tour.
The Belgian Road Cycling Cup (also known as Lotto Cycling Cup after its sponsor) is a road bicycle racing competition established in 2016 and consists of a number of standalone one-day races, mostly in Belgium but since 2022 some are held as well in the Netherlands. In each race, the top 15 riders score points and the rider scoring the most ...
Since 2008, separate awards were created for the best Belgian cyclist, the best international cyclist, and the best Belgian female cyclist (Flandrienne of the Year). Also since 2008, the voting system was changed and only people from within the world of cycling choose the winners from a jury's list of nominees.