The 1997 Hel van het Mergelland was the 25th edition of the

Volta Limburg Classic Volta Limburg Classic is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in late March or early April in Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. P ...

cycle race and was held on 5 April 1997. The race started and finished in

Eijsden Eijsden (; li, Èèsjde ) is a village situated in the very south of the European country the Netherlands. It is located in the southwestern part of the province of Limburg. Until 1 January 2011, Eijsden was the main village in a municipality ...

. The race was won by

Raymond Meijs Raymond Meijs (born 13 March 1968) is a Dutch former road bicycle racing, road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1992 to 2001. He notably won the Hel van het Mergelland a record four times in his career, as well as the UCI Road World Ch ...

General classification

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