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La Flèche Wallonne
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cycling road race held in Wallonia, Belgium
Key facts
- Date
- Late April
- Region
- Wallonia , Belgium
- English name
- Walloon Arrow
- Local name
- La Flèche Wallonne (in French)
- Discipline
- Road
- Competition
- UCI World Tour
- Type
- One-day
- Organiser
- Amaury Sport Organisation
- Web site
- www .la-fleche-wallonne .be
- First edition
- 1936 ( 1936 )
- Editions
- 90 (as of 2026)
- First winner
- Philippe Demeersman ( BEL )
- Most wins
- Alejandro Valverde ( ESP ) (5 wins)
- Most recent
- Paul Seixas ( FRA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
La Flèche Wallonne ( pronounced [la flɛʃ walɔn], French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week between the Amstel Gold Race and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. At one time, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège were run on successive days as "Le Weekend Ardennais" (both races are organised by Amaury Sport Organisation). Only eight riders have achieved the "Ardennes double" by winning both races in the same year: Alejandro Valverde three times (in 2006, 2015 and 2017), Ferdi Kübler twice (in 1951 and 1952), Stan Ockers (1955), Eddy Merckx (1972), Moreno Argentin (1991), Davide Rebellin (2004), Philippe Gilbert (2011), and Tadej Pogačar (2025).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Flèche Wallonne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.