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The Elfstedenronde is a one-day road cycling race held annually in Belgium. [1] It was held originally from 1943 until 1989, and returned in 2017 as the Bruges Cycling Classic.
Ten cyclists have won the Tour de France 18 times between them, making of Belgium the country with the most Tour de France wins behind France. Besides Eddy Merckx, Philippe Thys won the most prestigious tour 3 times while Firmin Lambot and Sylvère Maes won it twice. The last Belgian winner at the Tour de France however was Lucien Van Impe in ...
The Tour of Belgium (Dutch: Ronde van België; French: Tour de Belgique) is a five-day bicycle race which is held annually in Belgium, and is part of the UCI ProSeries. [ 1 ] It was held annually between 1908 and 1981, except during both world wars.
The success of the races in the Parc de St-Cloud inspired the Compagnie Parisienne and the magazine Le Vélocipède Illustré to run a race from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to the cathedral in Rouen on 7 November 1869. It was the world's first long-distance road race and also won by Moore, who took 10 hours and 25 minutes to cover 134 km.
Men's time trial [5] details: Filippo Ganna Italy: 47' 47.83" Wout van Aert Belgium + 5.37" Remco Evenepoel Belgium + 43.34" Women's Events: Women's road race [6] details: Elisa Balsamo Italy: 3h 52' 27" Marianne Vos Netherlands + 0" Katarzyna Niewiadoma Poland + 1" Women's time trial [7] details: Ellen van Dijk Netherlands: 36' 05.28" Marlen ...
Frank Vandenbroucke (6 November 1974 – 12 October 2009) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist.After showing promise in track and field in his adolescence, Vandenbroucke took to cycle racing in the late 1980s and developed into one of the great hopes for Belgian cycling in the 1990s, with a string of victories that included Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Grand Tour stages and Omloop Het ...
Femke Van den Driessche (pronounced [ˈfɛmkə vɑn dɛn ˈdrisə]; born 27 August 1996) is a Belgian former cyclo-cross cyclist, mountainbiker and road racing cyclist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As a junior, she became national cyclo-cross champion in 2011 and mountain bike champion in 2013.
Belgium at the 1968 Summer Olympics; IOC code: BEL: NOC: Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee: Website: www.olympic.be (in Dutch and French): in Mexico City; Competitors: 82 (77 men and 5 women) in 13 sports