Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2013
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2013 | |
Racing series | UCI WorldTour - Category 1.UWT |
Host country | Belgium |
Competition period | 21 April 2013 |
Stages | 1 |
overall length | 261.5 km |
winner | |
Overall rating | 1. Daniel Martin (GRS) 6:14:20 h 2. Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT) +0: 03 3. Alejandro Valverde (MOV) +0: 09 |
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Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2013 was the 99th staging of the Belgian one-day race Liège – Bastogne – Liège . It was held on April 21, 2013 over a distance of 261.5 kilometers and was the thirteenth race of the UCI WorldTour 2013 . The race was won by Dan Martin of the Garmin Sharp team after he followed a late attack by Joaquim Rodríguez in a group led by his teammate Ryder Hesjedal and distanced him to second place. Alejandro Valverde won the sprint for third place.
Teams
Since Liège-Bastogne-Liège is a UCI World Tour race, all 19 UCI ProTeams were automatically invited and obliged to send a team. Six other teams were given a wildcard for the race and the field of drivers consisting of 25 teams was formed.
19 UCI ProTeams took part in the race:
Surname | code | nationality |
---|---|---|
Ag2r | ALM | France |
Astana Pro Team | AST | Kazakhstan |
BMC Racing Team | BMC | United States |
Movistar | MOV | Spain |
Euskaltel Euskadi | EUS | Spain |
Garmin Sharp | GRS | United States |
Lampre-Merida | LAM | Italy |
Cannondale Pro Cycling | CAN | Italy |
RadioShack Leopard | RLT | Luxembourg |
Belkin-Pro Cycling Team | BEL | Netherlands |
Omega Pharma-Quick Step | OPQ | Belgium |
Team Saxo-Tinkoff | TST | Denmark |
Sky ProCycling | SKY | United Kingdom |
Vacansoleil DCM | VCD | Netherlands |
FDJ.fr | FDJ | France |
Lotto Belisol | LTB | Belgium |
Orica GreenEdge | OGE | Australia |
Argos-Shimano team | ARG | Netherlands |
Katusha | CAT | Russia |
These 6 teams were given a wildcard:
Name (UCI Code) | nationality |
---|---|
Accent Jobs-Wanty (ACC) | Belgium |
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (COF) | France |
Crelan-Euphony (LAN) | Belgium |
Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) | Belgium |
Team Europcar (EUC) | France |
IAM Cycling (IAM) | Switzerland |
Result
space | driver | nation | team | time | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Daniel Martin | IRL | Garmin Sharp | 6:38:07 h |
100 |
2. | Joaquim Rodríguez | ESP | Katusha | +3 ″ | 80 |
3. | Alejandro Valverde | ESP | Movistar | +9 ″ | 70 |
4th | Carlos Betancur | COL | Ag2r | +9 ″ | 60 |
5. | Michele Scarponi | ITA | Lampre-Merida | +9 ″ | 50 |
6th | Enrico Gasparotto | ITA | Astana Pro Team | +18 ″ | 40 |
7th | Philippe Gilbert | BEL | BMC Racing Team | +18 ″ | 30th |
8th. | Ryder Hesjedal | CAN | Garmin Sharp | +18 ″ | 20th |
9. | Rui Costa | POR | Movistar | +18 ″ | 10 |
10. | Simon Gerrans | OUT | Orica GreenEdge | +18 ″ | 4th |
Liège – Bastogne – Liège was a 3rd category race in the 2013 UCI WorldTour . That is why the ten best drivers - provided they drive for a UCI WorldTeam - received points for the UCI WorldTour Ranking with the distribution of points shown in the table.
Web links
- Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2013 in the ProCyclingStats.com database