Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Liege-Bastogne-Liege , created in 1892 by the Pesant Club Inhabitant of Li2ege and the Liege Cyclist Union , is oldest of the cycle races still disputed, which is worth to him the name of Doyenne . Its broken course of 260 km does of it one of traditional more demanding and more prestigious (the race owed at the origin being the prelude to a race of greatter importance, Liege-Paris-Liege . It of it was nothing).

This traditional, formerly registered with the calendar of the World cup is part from now on of the Pro-Turn.

Eddy Merckx is the recordman of victories (five), obtained between 1969 and 1975.

Bastogne is a city located 90 km at the south of Liege, near the Luxembourg border. The route of the race thus crosses the solid mass of the Ardenne in which the Ourthe and its affluents dug deep valleys.

Prize list

Never victorious, the Belgian Raymond Impanis finished four times however second, in 1947,1948,1954 and 1955.

Course

the coasts

Province of Luxembourg

Coast of Ny (km 57,5): Rise of 1,8 km to 6%
Coast of Rock-in-Ardenne (km 82,5): Rise of 2,9 km to 5,9%
Coast of Saint-Roch (km 128,5): Rise of 1 km with 11,2%

Province of Liege

Coast of Wanne (km 171): Rise of 2,2 km to 7,7%
Coast of Stockeu (km 177,5): Rise of 1,1 km to 11,6%
Coast of High-Lifting (km 183): Rise of 3,4 km to 6%
Coast of Rose tree (km 195,5): Rise of 3,9 km to 6,3%
Coast of Vecquée (km 208): Rise of 3,2 km to 6,2%
Coast of Redoute (km 225): Rise of 2,3 km to 7,4%
Coast of Sprimont (km 225): Rise of 1,5 km to 5%
Coast of Sart-Tilman-Tilff (km 246): Rise of 3,7 km to 5,9%
Coast of Saint Nicolas's Day (km 246): Rise of 0,9 km to 11%

External bonds

Official site of the turn

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