Philippe Gilbert
 Gilbert wearing the Belgian road-racing champion's jersey at the 2011 Tour of France |
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| Full name | Philippe Gilbert | ||
| Born | 5 July 1982  Belgium |
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| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 67 kg (150 lb) | ||
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| Current team | BMC Racing Team | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | Classics specialist / Puncheur | ||
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| 2003–2008 2009–2011 2012– |
FDJeux.com Silence-Lotto BMC Racing Team |
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| Infobox last updated on 1 January 2012 |
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Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982 in Remouchamps (Aywaille)) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team BMC Racing Team.[1] Gilbert is a classics specialist. He is the second person (and first Belgian) in history to win all three Ardennes classics in a single year.
Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris-Tours (2008, 2009), Giro di Lombardia (2009, 2010), Amstel Gold Race (2010, 2011), La Flèche Wallonne (2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011) and Clásica de San Sebastián (2011). He has also won a stage at the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France and two stages at the Vuelta a España.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early Years
Gilbert turned professional in 2003 by joining FDJeux.com after riding as stagiaire for the team in late 2000. During this season he recorded his first victory by winning a stage in Tour de l'Avenir. In 2004 he began by winning a stage in the Tour Down Under as well as the young rider classification. He participated in the men's road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he finished 49th. He also won the Paris–Corrèze. In 2005 he won several races in France, which allowed him to win the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route. These victories included Trophée des Grimpeurs, Tour du Haut-Var and the Polynormande. He also took stages in Four Days of Dunkirk and Tour Méditerranéen.
[edit] 2006 season
2006 would become his most successful year thus far when he won the prestigious Omloop Het Volk after repeatedly attacking until he got away alone with 7 km to go.[2] During the season he also won GP de Fourmies and GP de Wallonie as well as stages at Dauphiné Libére and ENECO Tour.
[edit] 2007 season
In early 2007 he had a skin cancer lesion removed from his thigh.[3] Because of this he had to delay the start of his season. That did not stop him from trying himself during Milan – San Remo, where he managed to escape on the Poggio with Riccardo Ricco before being captured 1200 meters from the finishing line. He could not get any victory during the season until Tour de Limousin, where he claimed his only victory in 2007 by winning a stage. In Paris–Tours he was caught with 500 meters to go along with Karsten Kroon and Filippo Pozzato.
[edit] 2008 season
Gilbert started 2008 by winning the King of the Mountains competition at the Tour Down Under and the overall classification as well as two stages of the Vuelta a Mallorca. He also finished third in the Milan – San Remo, accomplishing his first podium in a monument. He later won Het Volk for the second time in his career after a solo attack with almost 50 kilometers to go. Four days later he won the GP Samyn. He finished the year by winning the classic Paris–Tours race in a late breakaway where he won a sprint between his three breakaway companions. The peloton finished four seconds back.
[edit] 2009 season
In 2009 he joined Silence-Lotto to lead the Belgian team in the classics, finishing third at Tour of Flanders and fourth in both Amstel Gold Race and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He also took his first stage in a Grand Tour by winning the 20th stage of the Giro d’Italia[4] and won a stage and the overall classification of the Ster Elektrotoer. Later in the season he repeated his Paris–Tours win, attacking on the last climb with Tom Boonen and Borut Božič before outsprinting them to the line. A week later, he also won the prestigious Giro di Lombardia after escaping from the peloton with Samuel Sánchez, beating him to the finish by a half-length. It was his fourth consecutive victory in 10 days after also winning the Coppa Sabatini, Paris-Tours and Giro del Piemonte. At the end of the season he was awarded the Flandrien of the Year award, recognizing him as the best Belgian rider of the year.[5]
[edit] 2010 season
In 2010 he won his first classic of the year, Amstel Gold Race, in April. After an aggressive race featuring many attacks, he won through a big attack in the last 500 meters of the climb to the finish, comfortably winning by several bike lengths from the peloton.[6] He also won the first stage of the Tour de Belgique. Gilbert then ended the 2010 season in superb form. He followed up two stage wins in the Vuelta a España with victories in the Giro del Piemonte and the Giro di Lombardia, repeating his 2009 wins in both races. The Giro di Lombardia was won with a solo attack in atrocious weather conditions.[7]
[edit] 2011 season
In 2011, Philippe Gilbert won the Montepaschi Strade Bianche, a race including 70 kilometres of gravel roads. He then had a quadruple consecutive win: first he won the Brabantse Pijl, then he repeated as winner of Amstel Gold Race, breaking free on the Cauberg. Three days later, he won La Flèche Wallonne dropping his rivals on the final climb of the Mur de Huy and finally he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège beating the Schleck brothers in the sprint. Gilbert thus became the second rider, after Davide Rebellin in 2004, to win the three Ardennes classics in a single year.[8] During the first half of the season he also won stages at the Volta ao Algarve, Tirreno-Adriatico as well as the overall classification and a stage of both the Tour de Belgique and Ster ZLM Toer.
In late June he won the Belgian National Road Race Championships; by July and the opening 191.5 km stage of the 2011 Tour de France, he would win by three seconds over Cadel Evans, allowing him to be the first person to put on the yellow jersey as overall leader.[9] He lost that jersey in the team time trial the next day but still held the green jersey and the polka dot jersey after stage 2. A week after the end of the Tour, Gilbert won the Clásica de San Sebastián, and in mid-August, Gilbert won the 3rd stage at the ENECO Tour, taking his 15th victory of the year.
In September Gilbert won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec and took over the lead in the UCI world rankings.
[edit] 2012 season
In 2012, Gilbert will ride for BMC Racing Team.[1]
[edit] Major results
- 2003
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st
Points Competition
- 1st
- 2004
- 1st
Overall Paris–Corrèze - 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- 2nd Paris–Brussels
- 2005
- 1st Stage 4 Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs
- 1st Tour du Haut-Var
- 1st Polynormande
- 1st Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route
- 2nd GP de Wallonie
- 2006
- 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Omloop Het Volk
- 1st Stage 7 Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st GP de Wallonie
- 1st GP de Fourmies
- 2nd GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 2nd GP d'Isbergues
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Tour du Limousin
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 2008
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Omloop Het Volk
- 1st King of the Mountains, Tour Down Under
- 1st Trofeo Mallorca
- 1st Trofeo Soller
- 1st Le Samyn
- 2nd Brabantse Pijl
- 2nd Stage 1 Tour de France
- 3rd Milan – San Remo
- 2009
- 1st Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Giro del Piemonte
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 3rd Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 6th UCI Road World Championships
- 2010
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España
Stage 3–7
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Giro del Piemonte
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 3rd Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Brabantse Pijl
- 6th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Milan – San Remo
- 2011
- 1st UCI World Tour
- 1st
National Road Race Champion - 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st
Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Overall Eneco Tour
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de France
- on Stage 1
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 1st Montepaschi Strade Bianche
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st GP de Wallonie
- 1st Stage 5 Tirreno-Adriatico
- 1st Stage 1 Volta ao Algarve
- 3rd Milan – San Remo
- 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 8th Giro di Lombardia
- 9th Ronde van Vlaanderen
[edit] Classics results
This table shows Philippe Gilbert's results in the great classics.
[edit] Awards and honors
- Belgian Sportsman of the year: 2009, 2010
- National Trophy for sporting merit: 2009
- Velo d'Or: 2011
- Crystal Bicycle: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- Flandrien Award: 2009, 2010, 2011
- AIJC trophy: 2009
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Philippe Gilbert signs for BMC". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 19 August 2011. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/philippe-gilbert-signs-for-bmc. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ 61st Omloop Het Volk – 1.HC. Autobus.cyclingnews.com (2006-02-25). Retrieved on 2011-12-23.
- ^ Gilbert undergoes skin cancer surgery. Autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved on 2011-12-23.
- ^ Hood, Andrew (30 May 2009). "Philippe Gilbert wins 2009 Giro d’Italia stage 20; Denis Menchov holds lead". Velonews.com. http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/05/news/gilbert-wins-stage-20-menchov-holds-lead_92588. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ vrt (19 October 2010). "Philippe Gilbert is 'Flandrien of the year'". flandersnews.be. http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/sports/1.618772. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ "Amstel Gold Race 2010: Philippe Gilbert ends 16-year wait for Belgian win on the Cauberg". The Daily Telegraph (UK: Telegraph Media Group). 18 April 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/7604184/Amstel-Gold-Race-2010-Philippe-Gilbert-ends-16-year-wait-for-Belgian-win-on-the-Cauberg.html. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (16 October 2010). "Gilbert repeat victor of Giro di Lombardia". cyclingnews.com. http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-di-lombardia-2010/results. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ MacLeary, John (24 April 2011). "Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2011: Philippe Gilbert triumphs in Belgium to complete historic Ardennes classics hat-trick". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/8471104/Liege-Bastogne-Liege-2011-Philippe-Gilbert-triumphs-in-Belgium-to-complete-historic-Ardennes-classics-hat-trick.html. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ Fotheringham, William (2 July 2011). "Philippe Gilbert clinches stage one victory". Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/02/tour-de-france-2011-philippe-gilbert. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Philippe Gilbert |
- Philippe Gilbert at Trap-Friis.dk
- Official Website (French)
- Palmares on Cycling Base (French)
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| Preceded by Stijn Devolder |
Belgian National Road Race Champion 2011 |
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| Preceded by Stijn Devolder |
Belgian National Time Trial Champion 2011 |
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| Preceded by Sven Nys |
Crystal Bicycle 2008–2011 |
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Preceded by Fabian Cancellara (SUI) |
Vélo d'Or 2011 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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