Liège – Bastogne – Liège
The cycling race Liege-Bastogne-Liege (French Liège-Bastogne-Liège ), and La Doyenne (french The Elder ), is the oldest discharged one-day races and is one of the five so-called monuments of cycling counted.
history
Liege - Bastogne -Lüttich applies due to its very hilly profile by the Walloon Ardennes as one of the toughest classics in cycling . The route changes only insignificantly from year to year. The race, which runs through the Walloon part of Belgium , was first started in 1892 and therefore bears the honorary name La Doyenne (The Eldest). The race, which takes place annually at the end of April, was part of the ten races of the Cycling World Cup until 2004 . After its abolition, it was part of the newly introduced UCI ProTour for three seasons from 2005 , a series of the most important cycling races of the year. The race has been part of the UCI WorldTour successor series since 2011 .
In 2017 the race was organized for the first time for women as part of the UCI Women's WorldTour . The first winner was last year's Olympic champion, the Dutch Anna van der Breggen .
Since 1987 there has been a "small" edition of the men's race, initially as an amateur race and since 2006 as a U23 race in UCI category 1.2U.
In 2020 the race was canceled due to the corona pandemic.
route
In particular, the second part of the approximately 250-kilometer race leads over several relatively short but steep climbs ( Côtes ), which are often decisive in character. The most famous is the Côte de la Redoute . The rapid succession of climbs in the finale is characteristic. As a result, even classic mountain riders can achieve success in this race, which is hardly possible in other cycling comparisons due to the increasing specialization of the field of riders. The destination was up an incline in Ans , a small town bordering Liège, for 27 years before moving back to downtown Liège in 2019.
| km | Surname | Length in km |
Incline in percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70.0 | Cote de la Roche-en-Ardenne | 2.8 | 6.2 |
| 116.5 | Cote de Saint-Roch | 1.0 | 11.0 |
| 160.0 | Cote de tub | 2.7 | 7.3 |
| 166.5 | Cote de Stockeu | 1.0 | 12.2 |
| 172.0 | Cote de la Haute-Levée | 3.6 | 5.7 |
| 185.0 | Cote du Rosier | 4.4 | 5.9 |
| 198.0 | Cote du Maquisard | 2.5 | 5.0 |
| 208.0 | Mont-Theux | 2.7 | 5.9 |
| 223.0 | Cote de la Redoute | 2.0 | 8.8 |
| 238.0 | Cote de la Roche aux Faucons | 1.5 | 9.3 |
| 252.0 | Cote de Saint-Nicolas | 1.2 | 8.6 |
winner
Men
Eddy Merckx , who won a total of five times between 1969 and 1975, has the most victories at the "Doyenne" . Merckx is followed by Moreno Argentin and Alejandro Valverde , who caught up with his victory in 2017, with four wins each. The only two German winners so far were Hermann Buse in 1930 and Dietrich Thurau in 1979.
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From 1925 to 1929 the race was organized for independents.
Women
| year | Winner | Second | third |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
 Anna van der Breggen
|
 Lizzie Deignan
|
 Katarzyna Niewiadoma
|
| 2018 |
Anna van der Breggen
|
 Amanda Spratt
|
Annemiek van Vleuten
|
| 2019 |
Annemiek van Vleuten
|
Floortje Mackaij
|
Demi Vollering
|
| 2020 | Postponed or canceled due to corona pandemic | ||
Amateurs / U23
- 2020 for Corona pandemic canceled
- 2019 Kevin Vermaerke
- 2018 Joao Almeida
- 2017 Bjorg Lambrecht
- 2016 Logan Owen
- 2015 Guillaume Martin
- 2014 Anthony Turgis
- 2013 Michael Valgren
- 2012 Michael Valgren
- 2011 Tosh Van der Sande
- 2010 Ramūnas Navardauskas
- 2009 Rasmus Guldhammer
- 2008 Jan Bakelants
- 2007 Grega Bole
- 2006 Kai Reus
- 2005 Martin Pedersen
- 2004 Branislau Samojlau
- 2003 Johan Vansummeren
- 2002 Christophe Kern
- 2001 Ruslan Hryschtschenko
- 2000 Jurgen Van Goolen
- 1999 Philippe Koehler
- 1998 Frédéric Drillaud
- 1997 Christian Poos
- 1996 Raivis Belohvoščiks
- 1995 Raivis Belohvoščiks
- 1994 Franck Laurance
- 1993 Marc Janssens
- 1992 Laurent Eudeline
- 1991 Pierre Herinne
- 1990 Sandro Bottelberghe
- 1989 Philippe Mathy
- 1988 Marcel Derix
- 1987 Stephan Räkers
literature
- Didier Malempré: Liège-Bastogne-Liège, une doyenne vénérable et vénérée. Editions du Céfal, 2014, ISBN 978-2-87130-364-0 (French).
Web links
- Official website (English, French)
- Official website of women's races (English, French)
- Liège – Bastogne – Liège in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- The women's race in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- The U23 race in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- The amateur or U23 race in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/sport/wegen-corona-virus-das-sterben-der-radrennen-5e71c949da2cc1784e3590f4
- ↑ “La Doyenne” ends in 2019 in the center of Liège instead of Ans. In: radsport-news.com. January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Liège - Bastogne - Liège: Le parcours 2012 - Cols et Côtes ( French ) Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
- ↑ CAS stops Valverde. radsport-news.com, May 31, 2010, accessed April 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Het Laatste Nieuws (ed.): Liege Bastogne Liege . Antwerp April 19, 1992, p. 11 (Dutch).
