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Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert
Overijse - Brabantse Pijl, 15 april 2015, aankomst (B08).JPG
Gilbert at the 2015 Brabantse Pijl
Personal information
Full name Philippe Gilbert
Nickname Boar of the Ardennes
Born (1982-07-05) 5 July 1982 (age 34)
Verviers, Liège, Belgium
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
Current team Quick-Step Floors
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist
Puncheur
Professional team(s)
2003–2008 FDJeux.com
2009–2011 Silence–Lotto
2012–2016 BMC Racing Team
2017– Quick-Step Floors
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2011)
Giro d'Italia
3 individual stages (2009, 2015)
Vuelta a España
5 individual stages (2010, 2012, 2013)

Stage races

Paris–Corrèze (2004)
Ster ZLM Toer (2009, 2011, 2014)
Tour of Beijing (2014)
Tour of Belgium (2011)

One-day races and Classics

UCI Road World Championships (2012)
National Road Race Championships (2011, 2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2011)
Giro di Lombardia (2009, 2010)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011)
Amstel Gold Race (2010, 2011, 2014)
La Flèche Wallonne (2011)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2011)
GP de Québec (2011)
Grand Prix de Fourmies (2006)
Giro del Piemonte (2009, 2010)
Brabantse Pijl (2011, 2014)
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2006, 2008)
Paris–Tours (2008, 2009)
Strade Bianche (2011)

Other

UCI World Tour (2011)
Velo d'Or (2011)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Other

Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Quick-Step Floors. Gilbert is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège – in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour. Gilbert was accused of abusing Cortisone by an anonymous former Lotto teammate during this dominant period with Omega Pharma–Lotto, an allegation which the Belgian vehemently denies.

A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice (2008, 2009), the Giro di Lombardia twice (2009, 2010), the Amstel Gold Race three times (2010, 2011, 2014), La Flèche Wallonne (2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011) and the Clásica de San Sebastián (2011). He has also won stages at each of the three cycling Grand Tours; he won three stages at the Giro d'Italia, winning one in 2009 and two in 2015, a stage at the Tour de France in 2011, and five stages at the Vuelta a España, winning two in both 2010 and 2012, and one in 2013. He is the second person (and first Belgian) in history to win all three Ardennes classics in a single year.


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