Philippe Gilbert

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Philippe Gilbert Road cycling
Philippe Gilbert (2015)
Philippe Gilbert (2015)
To person
Date of birth 5th July 1982
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Street
Driver type Classic specialist
height 179 cm
Racing weight 69 kg
To the team
Current team Lotto Soudal
function driver
Team (s)
2002
2003–2008
2009
2010–2011
2012–2016
2017–2018
2019
2020– 		Française des Jeux ( Stagiaire )
Française des Jeux
Silence-Lotto
Omega Pharma-Lotto
BMC Racing Team
Quick-Step Floors
Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Lotto Soudal
Most important successes
World Championships
* Road Races 2012Jersey rainbow.svg
Monuments of cycling
* Tour of Lombardy 2009, 2010
* Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2011
* Tour of Flanders 2017
* Paris-Roubaix 2019
Grand Tours
* one stage Tour de France
* three stages Giro d'Italia
* seven stages Vuelta a España
Last updated: September 5, 2019

Philippe Gilbert (born July 5, 1982 in Verviers ) is a Belgian racing cyclist . He became road world champion in 2012 and won numerous classics , including four of the five monuments of cycling , namely the Giro di Lombardia in 2009 and 2010 , Liège – Bastogne – Liège in 2011 , the Tour of Flanders in 2017 and Paris-Roubaix in 2019 .

Career

Philippe Gilbert started his professional career in 2003 with the team La Française des Jeux . In his first year as a professional, he won the ninth stage of the Tour de l'Avenir .

In the next few years Gilbert developed into a specialist in difficult, especially hilly, one-day races . In 2006 he won his first "semi-classic" with the Omloop Het Volk , in 2008 the first classic victory at Paris-Tours and with the Giro di Lombardia 2009 for the first time a "monument of cycling". In 2012 he became world champion in road racing in Valkenburg through an attack on the target slope .

Philippe Gilbert, 2011

Gilbert's most successful year was 2011: He won the three Ardennes classics Amstel Gold Race , La Flèche Wallonne and Liège – Bastogne – Liège in the same year as the second driver after Davide Rebellin . He also won u. a. Stages at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour de France , won the one-day races Pfeil von Brabant and Monte Paschi Eroica , was the overall winner of the Tour of Belgium, Belgian champions in both road racing and time trial . In the individual classification of the UCI WorldTour 2011 , he took first place. Gilbert was the winning rider of the season.

At the end of 2011 he left the Omega Pharma-Lotto team and switched to the US UCI WorldTeam BMC . In 2012 Gilbert won two stages in the Vuelta a España . At the UCI Road World Championships 2012 in Valkenburg , he became world champion in road racing through a solo attack on the finish slope . A week earlier, he won the silver medal in the team time trial .

After Gilbert won only one stage of the Vuelta a España in 2013 , he won the Amstel Gold Race for the third time in 2014. At the end of the UCI WorldTour 2014 , he won a stage in the Tour of Beijing and was the overall winner of this series.

In 2015 Gilbert won two stages of the Giro d'Italias . Pino Cerami was also successful at the GP and the Tour de Wallonie . At the beginning of 2016 he won the Spanish one-day race Murcia Tour . In March 2016, Philippe Gilbert and his teammate Loïc Viegen were attacked by two drunk drivers while they were on the road. Gilbert broke his finger and had to be operated on. The two men were briefly detained by the police. The police are also investigating Gilbert for defending himself with pepper spray , which is banned in Belgium. After this incident, Gilbert won two stages of the Tour of Luxembourg at the beginning of June and became Belgian road champion.

In November 2016, Gilbert was sentenced to pay 300,000 euros to his former Omega Pharma-Lotto team for breaching his contract when he switched to BMC Racing Team in 2012.

For the 2017 season, Gilbert switched to Quick-Step Floors . After winning a stage and the overall ranking of the Three Days of De Panne 2017 , he won the subsequent Tour of Flanders after a solo journey of 55 kilometers . Two weeks later, he won the Amstel Gold Race for the fourth time in a two-man sprint against Michał Kwiatkowski , although he suffered a kidney tear in a fall at the start of the race, which forced him to end the 2017 classic season early.

In the 2018 season, Gilbert finished third in the Tour of Flanders when his teammate Niki Terpstra won . On the mountainous 16th stage of the 2018 Tour de France , he fell while in the lead on a descent. He finished the stage and was awarded the red number , but did not start the next stage due to a fractured kneecap.

Gilbert won Paris-Roubaix 2019 in a two-man sprint ahead of Nils Politt , after he and Politt had been able to break away from a five-man leading group after his attack 14 kilometers from the finish.

Honors

In 2011, Philippe Gilbert was awarded the Vélo d'Or (French = Goldenes Rad) as the best driver of the year by the French magazine Vélo . In the same year he was named Belgium's cyclist of the year for the third time in a row .

successes

Philippe Gilbert in world champion jersey (2013)
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Important placements

Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Milan – Sanremo DNF - 6th 32 21st 3 23 9 3 87 32 13 55 - 29 75 68
Tour of Flanders - - - DNF 25th 15th 3 3 9 75 - - - - 1 3 DNF
Paris – Roubaix - - - - 52 - - - - - - - - - - 15th 1
Liège – Bastogne – Liège DNF 40 DNF 37 16 91 4th 3 1 16 7th 8th 36 - - 31 58
Lombardy tour - - 73 DNF - - 1 1 8th DNF 20th 7th 33 34 27 - 54
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
World championships
World Championship 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Road racing DNF DNF 77 92 8th 15th 6th 18th 17th 1 9 7th 10 - 17th - DNF
Individual time trial - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team time trial - - - - - - - - - 2 - - - - 4th - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Grand tours
Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 32 - DNF - - DNF - - - - - 39 - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 70 110 DNF 111 - - 38 46 62 - - - DNF DNF -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - 69 DNF 54 50 - 59 DNF 45 - DNF - - 32
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com from September 23, 2012: Gilbert storms into the rainbow jersey, Degenkolb fourth
  2. ↑ Gilbert storms into the rainbow jersey, Degenkolb fourth. radsport-news.com, September 23, 2012, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gilbert attacked by drunk men during training. In: radsport-news.com. April 9, 2016, Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Ex-cycling world champion Gilbert defends himself with pepper spray. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed April 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Philippe Gilbert moet Omega Pharma Lotto 300,000 euros schadevergoeding betalen. sporza.be, accessed November 19, 2016 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Gilbert celebrates his "Ronde" triumph on foot. radsport-news.com, April 2, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gilbert has to take a break after Amstel victory with a kidney injury. radsport-news.com, April 17, 2017, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Gilbert has to give up the tour after a horror fall. In: radsport-news.com. July 24, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Broken kneecap: Gilbert is out for at least six weeks. In: radsport-news.com. July 25, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Gilbert drives the "perfect race" and wins Roubaix. In: radsport-news.com. April 14, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Gilbert awarded Vélo d'Or on radsport-news.com v. October 27, 2011
  12. ↑ Gilbert is again Belgium's cyclist of the year on radsport-news.com v. December 19, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Gilbert, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Verviers