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2017 La Flèche Wallonne

2017 La Flèche Wallonne
2017 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 38
The route of the 2017 La Flèche Wallonne
The route of the 2017 La Flèche Wallonne
Race details
Dates 19 April 2017
Stages 1
Distance 204.5 km (127.1 mi)
Winning time 5h 15' 37"
Results
  Winner  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Movistar Team)
  Second  Dan Martin (IRL) (Quick-Step Floors)
  Third  Dylan Teuns (BEL) (BMC Racing Team)
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  Winner  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) (Movistar Team)
  Second  Dan Martin (IRL) (Quick-Step Floors)
  Third  Dylan Teuns (BEL) (BMC Racing Team)

The 2017 La Flèche Wallonne was a road cycling one-day race that took place between Binche and Huy in Belgium, on 19 April 2017. It was the 81st edition of the La Flèche Wallonne and the seventeenth event of the 2017 UCI World Tour.

Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) won the race atop the Mur de Huy for the fourth successive year, and a record-extending fifth victory overall. Ireland's Dan Martin finished second for Quick-Step Floors, while the podium was completed by the Belgian rider, Dylan Teuns for the BMC Racing Team. Of the race's 200 starters, 166 riders finished the race.

As La Flèche Wallonne was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.

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UCI Professional Continental teams


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