The 2012 Gent–Wevelgem was the 74th running of the
Gent–Wevelgem single-day cycling race. It was held on 25 March 2012 over a distance of , and was the seventh race of the
2012 UCI World Tour
The 2012 UCI World Tour was the fourth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 17 January, and consisted of 14 stage races, 14 one-da ...
season.
In a mass sprint finish, the race was won by rider
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen (; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the and teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in ...
, who in the process, became the fifth different rider to win the race three times. Boonen finished ahead of 's
Peter Sagan and 's
Matti Breschel
Matti Breschel (born 31 August 1984) is a Danish retired professional road racing cyclist, who competed between 2005 and 2019 for the , , and teams.
Career Junior career
Born in Ballerup, Breschel got his breakthrough with small Danish Tea ...
, who completed the podium.
Teams
As Gent–Wevelgem was a UCI World Tour event, all 18
UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Seven other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 25-team peloton. Each team could enter up to eight riders, with the starting peloton being 195 riders.
The 25 teams that competed in the race were:
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Results
Women's race
A women's race was held for the first time in 2012, on the same day as the men's race but over a shorter course of . rider
Lizzie Armitstead
Elizabeth Mary Deignan (née Armitstead; born 18 December 1988) is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was the 2015 World road race champion.
Deignan is ...
won after a solo breakaway of nearly .
References
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