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Key facts
- Full name
- Philippe Gilbert
- Nickname
- Le sanglier des Ardennes (Boar of the Ardennes) , Monsieur Cauberg
- Born
- ( 1982-07-05 ) 5 July 1982 (age 43) , Verviers , Belgium
- Height
- 1.79 m (5 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
- Current team
- Retired
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Classics specialist , Puncheur
- 2003 2008
- FDJeux.com
- 2009 2011
- Silence–Lotto
- 2012 2016
- BMC Racing Team
- 2017 2019
- Quick-Step Floors
- 2020 2022
- Lotto–Soudal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gilbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Verviers
- Sibling
- Jérôme Gilbert
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Participant in
- 2022 UCI Europe Tour
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- Lotto-Intermarché
- Position played
- Cobbled classics
- Country for sport
- Belgium
- Mass
- 70
- Official website
- www.philippegilbert.com
- Image
- Philippe Gilbert (2020).jpg
- Height
- 179
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- Commons category
- Philippe Gilbert
- date of birth
- 1982-07-05
- competition won
- 2019 Vuelta a España, stage 12
- social media followers
- 247878
- nickname
- Phil
- name in native language
- Philippe Gilbert
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is known for being a versatile rider who was able to win four of the five very different profile cycling monuments and also the World Road Race Championships in 2012, 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. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philippe Gilbert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.