The 35th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 1 April 1951. Italian Fiorenzo Magni won the race with a five-and-a-half minute...
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race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Its nickname is Vlaanderens Mooiste (Dutch for "Flanders' Finest")...
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westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, forming the central portion of the historic County of Flanders are also still collectively...
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Louison Bobet (category French Tour de France stage winners)
Nations (1952), world road championship (1954), Tour of Flanders (1955), Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1955), Tour de Luxembourg (1955), Paris–Roubaix (1956)...
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The 34th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 2 April 1950. Italian Fiorenzo Magni won the race with a two-minute lead...
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The 36th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 6 April 1952. Belgian Roger Decock won the race in a three-man sprint before...
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Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald...
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Roger Decock (category Cyclists from West Flanders)
in 1951. During the 1951 Tour de France he was having the best Tour of his career and was 5th place overall when he became the only witness to one of the...
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first Flanders and Swann show Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic...
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Dwars door Vlaanderen (redirect from Across Flanders)
the Wednesday before the Tour of Flanders, Flanders's foremost cycling classic, held on Sunday. Since 2012, a women's edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen is...
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Fiorenzo Magni (category Italian Tour de France stage winners)
wins in the 1948, 1951 and 1955 Giro d'Italia, and the three consecutive wins (record) at the Tour of Flanders (1949, 1950 and 1951). Magni excelled at...
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Tour of Flanders. Tour of Flanders – (Ronde van Vlaanderen) is normally raced in early April, first held in 1913. Paris–Roubaix – La Reine ("Queen of...
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Cycling monument (redirect from Monuments of cycing)
1972). Only Merckx has won the combinations Milan–San Remo/Tour of Flanders and Tour of Flanders/Liège–Bastogne–Liège, when he won all three Monuments in...
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Belgium (redirect from Kingdom of Belgium)
year-on-year growth of 2.7%. There is a large economic gap between Flanders and Wallonia. Wallonia was historically wealthy compared to Flanders, mostly due to...
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Briek Schotte (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
stage of the 1947 Tour de France and finished second in the 1948 Tour, behind Gino Bartali. He twice won the Tour of Flanders (1942, 1948), Paris–Tours (1946...
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Michel Pollentier (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
February 1951 in Diksmuide, West Flanders) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He became professional in 1973. The highlight of his career...
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Kemmelberg (redirect from Battle of Kemmel Ridge)
formation in Flanders, Belgium. It is located less than a kilometre from the village of Kemmel, part of the municipality of Heuvelland in the province of West...
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Wout van Aert (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
they finished the race over 90 seconds ahead of the next group. In the lead-up to the Tour of Flanders, Van Aert tested positive for COVID-19, and missed...
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Cees Bal (category 1951 births)
Cornelius Bal (born 21 November 1951) is a Dutch former racing cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1974. Cees Bal at Cycling Archives v t e...
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held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race...
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Johan Museeuw (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion...
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Dolores Gray (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
cabaret at The Talk of the Town in February 1963. Among her many stage roles, she appeared in Two on the Aisle (1951), Carnival In Flanders (1953); Destry...
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Gent–Wevelgem (category Sport in West Flanders)
Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the Tour of Flanders. Although the event is often called a sprinters' classic due to its...
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (category UCI World Tour races)
race is part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's top-tier professional events. The race starts in Ghent, Flanders and finishes in Ninove, Flanders. The race...
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Tom Boonen (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France...
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performances in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, La Flèche Wallonne, Paris–Brussels, Paris–Tours and the Giro...
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Wim van Est (category Dutch Tour de France stage winners)
leader of the general classification in the Tour de France of 1951, and for falling into a ravine while wearing it. Van Est was born in the town of Fijnaart...
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either part of the UCI World Tour, as well as races that are organized by the ASO, the RCS and Unipublic. Milano–San Remo, Italy Tour of Flanders, Belgium...
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the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Albert succeeded his uncle Leopold...
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Raymond Impanis (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
cyclist from 1947 to 1963. He won Paris–Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders, Gent–Wevelgem and three stages in Tour de France. Impanis became a professional rider...
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