2012 Amstel Gold Race

2012 Amstel Gold Race
2012 UCI World Tour, race 11 of 28
Race details
Dates15 April 2012
Stages1
Distance256.5 km (159.4 mi)
Winning time6h
Results
  Winner  Enrico Gasparotto (ITA) (Astana)
  Second  Jelle Vanendert (BEL) (Lotto–Belisol)
  Third  Peter Sagan (SVK) (Liquigas–Cannondale)
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The 2012 Amstel Gold Race was the 47th running of the Amstel Gold Race, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 15 April 2012 over a distance of 256.5 kilometres (159.4 miles) and was the eleventh race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.

The race was won by Astana rider Enrico Gasparotto after outsprinting several of his rivals to the finish on the Cauberg; it was his first Classics victory,[1] and the first by an Italian rider in a one-day classic since Damiano Cunego won the 2008 Giro di Lombardia.[2] Second place went to Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert,[3] while Peter Sagan rounded out the podium placings for the Liquigas–Cannondale team.[4] Two-time defending race winner Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team) finished in the same time as Sagan, but was classified in sixth place.[5]

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  5. ^ "Gasparotto wins Amstel stunner". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 15 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2012.