Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert
Gilbert at the 2017 Tour de France
Personal information
Full namePhilippe Gilbert
NicknameBoar of the Ardennes[1] Monsieur Cauberg[2]
Born (1982-07-05) 5 July 1982 (age 42)
Verviers, Belgium[3]
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[4]
Weight69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)[4]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Puncheur
Professional teams
2003–2008FDJeux.com
2009–2011Silence–Lotto
2012–2016BMC Racing Team
2017–2019Quick-Step Floors[5]
2020–2022Lotto–Soudal[6][7]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2011)
Giro d'Italia
3 individual stages (2009, 2015)
Combativity award (2015)
Vuelta a España
7 individual stages (2010, 2012, 2013, 2019)

Stage races

Tour of Beijing (2014)
Four Days of Dunkirk (2022)
Three Days of De Panne (2017)
Tour of Belgium (2011)
Ster ZLM Toer (2009, 2011, 2014)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (2012)
National Road Race Championships (2011, 2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2011)
Paris–Roubaix (2019)
Tour of Flanders (2017)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011)
Giro di Lombardia (2009, 2010)
Amstel Gold Race (2010, 2011, 2014, 2017)
La Flèche Wallonne (2011)
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2006, 2008)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2011)
Strade Bianche (2011)
Paris–Tours (2008, 2009)
Brabantse Pijl (2011, 2014)
GP de Québec (2011)
Gran Piemonte (2009, 2010)
GP de Fourmies (2006)

Other

UCI World Tour (2011)
Vélo d'Or (2011)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Belgium
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Valkenburg Road race
Representing BMC Racing Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial

Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012,[8] and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège – in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011.[9] Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour.[10]

A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice (2008, 2009), the Giro di Lombardia twice (2009, 2010), the Amstel Gold Race four times (2010, 2011, 2014, 2017), La Flèche Wallonne (2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011), the Clásica de San Sebastián (2011), the Tour of Flanders (2017), and Paris–Roubaix (2019). He is the second person (and first Belgian) in history to win all three Ardennes classics in a single year. In 2017, Gilbert became the third rider after Eddy Merckx (1975) and Jan Raas (1979) to win both the Tour of Flanders and the Amstel Gold Race in the same year.

He has also won stages at each of the three cycling Grand Tours: three stages at the Giro d'Italia (one in 2009 and two in 2015), one stage at the Tour de France (in 2011), and seven stages at the Vuelta a España (two in both 2010 and 2012, one in 2013 and two in 2019).

Gilbert retired as a professional, after the 2022 Paris–Tours.[11] He celebrated his retirement in Valkenburg aan de Geul where he became world champion and won four Amstel Gold Races. He was honoured with a mural in the caves of the Cauberg.[12]

  1. ^ "Gilbert honored as "Boar of Ardennes" in Aywaille". Cycling News. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  2. ^ "De vier zeges van 'Monsieur Cauberg' op een rijtje". het Nieuwsblad. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Philippe Gilbert – About Phil". Retrieved 6 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ a b "Philippe Gilbert, Deceuninck – Quick-Step Cycling team". Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  5. ^ Torrego, José María (23 December 2018). "El Deceuninck Quick Step busca no sucumbir del cetro mundial del ciclismo en 2019" [The Deceuninck Quick Step seeks not to succumb from the cycling world title in 2019]. La Guía del Ciclismo (in Spanish). Digipress Ibérica SL. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  6. ^ Ballinger, Alex (19 August 2019). "Philippe Gilbert signs with Lotto–Soudal for three years". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Lotto Soudal". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Belgium's Philippe Gilbert blasts to men's road race victory on the Cauberg". The Daily Telegraph. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  9. ^ Atkins, Ben (25 April 2011). "Philippe Gilbert's Ardennes triple lifts him to World number one spot". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  10. ^ "UCI presents Philippe Gilbert with 2011 WorldTour trophy at Peace and Sport International Forum". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  11. ^ "Terpstra laatste in afscheidskoers, Démare wint Paris–Tours opnieuw". NOS.nl (in Dutch). 9 October 2022.
  12. ^ "'Phil' Gilbert vereeuwigd in eregalerij onder Cauberg: 'Hier mooiste zege behaald'". NOS.nl (in Dutch). 15 October 2022.