Race details | |
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Date | Early September |
Region | Leuven, Belgium |
English name | Grand Prix Jef Scherens |
Local name(s) | Grote Prijs Jef Scherens (in Dutch) Grote Prijs Poeske Scherens (in Dutch) |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single-day |
Web site | tourofleuven |
History | |
First edition | 1963 |
Editions | 57 (as of 2024) |
First winner | Marcel Van Den Bogaert (BEL) |
Most wins | Frans Verbeeck (BEL) (4 wins) |
Most recent | Markus Hoelgaard (NOR) |
Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens (until 2021 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium.[1] Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world champion Jef Scherens.[2]
The local city circuit from the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, hosted in Leuven, was largely based on the circuit that is ridden during the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens.[3]