The organizers of the 77th Gent-Wevelgem on Thursday awarded eight wildcards. Two Belgian teams, Wanty Groupe Gobert and Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise, start the WorldTour event on March 29.
Besides these two Belgian teams are also the French sqauds Cofidis and Europcar. The other four teams get started right are the newly-formed Dutch team Roompot-Orange, the South African MTN Qhubeka team, the Germans Bora-Argon 18 and the Italian Southeast squad.
The race starts from the Deinze Market at 11:20. The riders will do a whopping 240 race kilometers before the traditional finish at the Wevelgemse Vanackerestraat.
Around 17:00 we know that the successor to the German John Degenkolb, who won last year in a mass sprint ahead of Frenchman Arnaud Démare and the Slovakian Peter Sagan, the winner of 2013. The best Belgian was Sep Vanmarcke fourth place.
23.04 - 27.04: CAC Nile Tour |
27.04: Liberazione Juniores |
27.04: E3 Saxo Classic |
27.04: Leiedal Koerse |
27.04: Ceratizit Festival Elsy Jacobs |
21.04 - 28.04: Presidential Cycling Tour of T... |
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24.04 - 28.04: Tour of the Gila |
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Ángela PARRA 42 years | today |
Mathias VANMARCKE 35 years | today |
Marc-Antoine NADON 30 years | today |
Gabrielle PILOTE-FORTIN 31 years | today |
Roan EXLEBY 46 years | today |
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