Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional

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, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with

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, 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

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. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour. A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several

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, including

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 ...

twice (2008,

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), the Giro di Lombardia twice (

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), the Amstel Gold Race four times (

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, 2017), La Flèche Wallonne (

), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (

), the

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(

), 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. He has also won stages at each of the three cycling Grand Tours: three stages at the Giro d'Italia (one in

and two in

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), one stage at the

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(in

), and seven stages at the Vuelta a España (two in both

and 2012, one in

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and two in 2019). Gilbert retired as a professional, after the 2022 Paris-Tours. He celebrated his retirement in Valkenburg aan de Geul where he became world champion and won four Amstel Gold Races. He was honoured with a mural in the caves of the Cauberg.

Personal life

Gilbert currently resides in

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. With his ex-wife Patricia Zevaert he has two sons, born 2010 and 2013. Gilbert's younger brother Jérôme has also been a racing cyclist. Gilbert committed to serve world peace through sport by joining Peace and Sport. During the 2021 UCI Road World Championships in

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, he was elected to a four-year term as a representative for road cycling on the

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Athletes' Commission, winning 66 percent of the vote.

Career

FDJeux.com (2003–08)

First three seasons

Born in Remouchamps in the municipality of

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, Gilbert turned professional in 2003 by joining after riding as stagiaire for the team in late 2000. During this season he recorded his first victory by winning a stage in the

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...

. In 2004 he began by winning a stage in the

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as well as the young rider classification. He participated in the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race at the

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where he finished 49th. He also won the

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. In 2005 he won several races in France, which allowed him to win the

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. These victories included the Trophée des Grimpeurs, the

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transform ...

and the

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. He also took stages in the Four Days of Dunkirk and the

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2006 season

2006 would become his most successful year to the point when he won the prestigious

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after repeatedly attacking until he got away alone with to go. During the season he also won the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the

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as well as stages at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Eneco Tour.

2007 season

In early 2007 he had a skin cancer lesion removed from his thigh, delaying the start of his season. That did not stop him from trying himself during

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, where he managed to escape on the Poggio with

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before being captured from the finishing line. He could not get any victory during the season until the

Tour du Limousin Tour du Limousin is a 4-day road bicycle race held annually in Limousin, France. It was first held in 1968 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle rac ...

, where he claimed his only victory in 2007 by winning a stage. In

he was caught with to go along with

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and

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2008 season

Gilbert started 2008 by winning the King of the Mountains competition at the

and the overall classification as well as two stages of the Vuelta a Mallorca. He also finished third in

, accomplishing his first podium in a monument. He later won

for the second time in his career after a solo attack with almost to go. Four days later he won the GP Samyn. He finished the year by winning the classic

race in a late breakaway where he won a sprint between his three breakaway companions. The peloton finished four seconds back.

Silence–Lotto (2009–11)

2009 season

In 2009 he joined to lead the Belgian team in the classics, finishing third at the Tour of Flanders and fourth in both the Amstel Gold Race and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He also took his first stage in a

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by winning the 20th stage of the Giro d'Italia and won a stage and the overall classification of the Ster Elektrotoer. Later in the season he repeated his

win, attacking on the last climb with

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and

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before outsprinting them to the line. A week later, he also won the prestigious Giro di Lombardia after escaping from the peloton with

Samuel Sánchez Samuel "Samu" Sánchez González (born 5 February 1978) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally in the sport between 2000 and 2017 for the and squads. He was the gold medal winner in the road race at the 2 ...

, beating him to the finish by a half-length. It was his fourth victory in 10 days after also winning the Coppa Sabatini and Giro del Piemonte. At the end of the season he was awarded the ''Flandrien of the Year'' award, recognising him as the best Belgian rider of the year.

2010 season

In 2010 he won his first classic of the year, April's Amstel Gold Race. After an aggressive race featuring many attacks, he won through a big attack in the last of the climb to the finish, comfortably winning by several bike lengths from the peloton. He also won the first stage of the Tour of Belgium. Gilbert then ended the 2010 season in superb form. He followed up two stage wins in the Vuelta a España with victories in the Giro del Piemonte and the Giro di Lombardia, repeating his 2009 wins in both races. The Giro di Lombardia was won with a solo attack in atrocious weather conditions.

2011 season

In 2011, Gilbert won the Montepaschi Strade Bianche, a race including of gravel roads. He then had a quadruple consecutive win: first he won the Brabantse Pijl, then he repeated as winner of the Amstel Gold Race, breaking free on the Cauberg. Three days later, he won La Flèche Wallonne dropping his rivals on the final climb of the Mur de Huy and finally he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège beating the Schleck brothers in the sprint. Gilbert thus became the second rider, after

in 2004, to win the three Ardennes classics in a single year. During the first half of the season he also won stages at the Volta ao Algarve, Tirreno–Adriatico as well as the overall classification and a stage of both the Tour of Belgium and Ster ZLM Toer. Philippe Gilbert TF 2011

In late June, Gilbert won the Belgian National Road Race Championships. In July he won the opening stage of the

, winning by three seconds over

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, allowing him to be the first person to put on the yellow jersey as overall leader. He lost that jersey in the team time trial the next day but still held the

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and polka dot jerseys after stage two. A week after the end of the Tour, Gilbert won the

, and in mid-August, Gilbert won the 3rd stage at the Eneco Tour, taking his 15th victory of the year. In September, Gilbert won the

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and took over the lead of the UCI world rankings with the 80 points awarded to the victor. He followed that performance two days later at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal by finishing third, despite stating that he felt "no pressure" after his

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victory. With that placing, Gilbert deposited another 50 UCI points in his account. He would race in the October Italian classic, the Giro di Lombardia, taking eighth place after he was distanced on the final climb. He eventually closed the season well ahead in the UCI World Tour rankings, with 718 points to the 584 points of his closest competitor, Cadel Evans. He won 18 races in the season, more than any other cyclist in the professional peloton. Gilbert was appointed as a member of the inaugural UCI Athletes' Commission in 2011.

BMC Racing Team (2012–16)

2012 season

Philippe Gilbert, 2012 Road World Championships, Cauberg (cropped)

In 2012, Gilbert signed for on a three-year contract reportedly worth €3 million a year. His goals for his new squad were to perform highly in the

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and help his team-mate

repeat his 2011 feat of winning the

. Neither of those came to fruition, as Gilbert's best result in the one-day spring races was third at La Flèche Wallonne, where he got deposited on the final climb by

Joaquim Rodríguez Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver (born 12 May 1979) is a former Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who competed between 2001 and 2016 for the , , and teams. Rodríguez recorded notable results included fourteen Grand Tour stage victories, ...

who won atop the historic

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with a slim margin of 4 seconds. Three days prior, he took sixth position at the Amstel Gold Race and was pleased to achieve a top ten ranking in the

Ardennes The Ardennes (french: Ardenne ; nl, Ardennen ; german: Ardennen; wa, Årdene ; lb, Ardennen ), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Be ...

race. He missed out on his goal to bring Evans in yellow to

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and his best placing in a Tour de France stage was fourth. He also lost both of the Belgian National Championship titles he held, finishing third in the Belgian National Time Trial Championships. On 26 August 2012, Gilbert finally managed his first victory of the season by winning the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España after breaking away together with Rodríguez. He later won a second stage of the race, winning stage nineteen on 7 September. On 23 September 2012, Gilbert won the UCI Elite Men's Road Race world championship and the rainbow jersey, ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen and Alejandro Valverde by producing a massive surge on the final climb of the Cauberg.

2013 season

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In 2013, Gilbert headed towards the World Championships without a single win in the rainbow jersey, in danger of his first winless season since turning professional in 2003. He started the Vuelta a España hoping that the competition would, for the second successive year, kick-start his season. After being narrowly defeated in a sprint by Zdeněk Štybar on

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, Gilbert finally clinched a victory in the rainbow stripes when he caught and passed Edvald Boasson Hagen to win stage 12.

2014 season

In 2014, Gilbert picked up his previous form when in the spring he won his second Brabantse Pijl and his third Amstel Gold Race.

2015 season

Gilbert finished third at Brabantse Pijl, seconds after his teammate Ben Hermans. At the Amstel Gold Race, Gilbert could not repeat his winning ways of 2014 and came in tenth after having attacked on the final climb of the day, the Cauberg. On the next Wednesday, Gilbert crashed out of La Flèche Wallonne. He then took part in Liège–Bastogne–Liège even though he was slightly injured and held on to the main group until the Côte de Saint-Nicolas, where he was dropped and finished 36th. He scored his first victory of the season at the Giro d'Italia, besting the lead group on a sharp incline at the end of Stage 12. He repeated on Stage 18, where he participated in the early break. After being dropped on the last climb of the day, he came back to the remnants of the breakaway after the descent and attacked them to win solo.

2016 season

Gilbert took his first victory of the season in February at the one-day race Vuelta a Murcia, winning the sprint of a four-man group. He won the Belgian National Road Race Championships in June.

Quick-Step Floors (2017–19)

2017 season

Tour de France 2017, Stage 1 (35526708371)

After 5 seasons with BMC, Gilbert joined for the 2017 season. Gilbert finished second in the Dwars door Vlaanderen behind teammate

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. The pair made the race-defining split along with Alexey Lutsenko from the team, and 's Luke Durbridge. Lampaert attacked with remaining and ultimately won the race by 39 seconds ahead of Gilbert, who led home Lutsenko and Durbridge in a sprint for second place. Later that week, in a three-up sprint finish of Belgian riders, Greg Van Avermaet () won E3 Harelbeke ahead of Gilbert and 's

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. The following week, Gilbert won the Three Days of De Panne after he attacked on the

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during the race's opening stage and soloed away to the victory by 17 seconds from his nearest competitor. He ultimately won the race by 38 seconds ahead of 's

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, and also won the sprints classification, primarily from his opening-day attack. Three days later, he won the Tour of Flanders after a solo attack on the

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and holding off the rest of the field over the remaining . Gilbert became the first rider in twenty years to win both the Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in his career. Two weeks after that he won the Amstel Gold Race for a fourth time and became the third rider to win the Tour of Flanders and the Amstel Gold Race in the same year, after Jan Raas and Eddy Merckx. It was later revealed that he won the race despite riding for the last of the race with a minor kidney tear. The injury required treatment in hospital after the race, and ruled him out of La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

2018 season

In Stage 16 of the

, Gilbert was involved in a crash in a downhill section where he went over a wall, suffering lacerations and fracturing his kneecap. This was the same road where Fabio Casartelli died in the

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. Gilbert climbed back onto his bike and rode the remaining to the finish in Bagnères-de-Luchon, earning him the Most Combative Rider award but ending his tour.

2019 season

In April, Gilbert won Paris–Roubaix in a sprint ahead of

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, thereby raising his total number of

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titles to five. During the Vuelta a España, Gilbert won stage 12 to

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, after dropping his breakaway companions to reach the finish alone. On stage 17 into

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, Gilbert was again victorious. In a stage marked by crosswinds, his team forced the pace and allowed him to win the sprint finish. The average speed of marked the fastest ever road stage over in a Grand Tour.

Lotto–Soudal

In August 2019, Gilbert signed a three-year contract with the team from the 2020 season onwards.

Career achievements

Major results

;2000 : 10th Overall

Giro della Lunigiana Giro della Lunigiana is a four-day road bicycle race for junior men (age 17 and 18) in the historical territory Lunigiana (currently the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara), Italy. The race, class 2.1 MJ on the UCI calendar, counts as a bi ...

;2002 : 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher ::1st Stage 6 : 4th

Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ( en, Tour of Flanders U23) is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. It is the version of the Tour of Flanders for under-23 riders and is usually contested a week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ludovic Capelle L ...

: 5th Overall

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: 6th

Grand Prix de Waregem The Grand Prix Waregem was a cycling race held annually in Belgium. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2U from 2005 to 2007. The race was considered to be the Under 23 version of Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, A ...

: 7th

Tour du Finistère Tour du Finistère is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April around the city of Quimper Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern ...

: 8th Circuit de Wallonie : 9th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 9th

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;2003 : 2nd Tro-Bro Léon : 4th Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 9 : 6th Overall

Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen Dwars door West-Vlaanderen is a road bicycle race through the Belgian province of West Flanders. History The race was originally created unter the name Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen (''English'': Tour of the Flemish Ardennes) in 1945 as a one-day ...

: 10th Trophée des Grimpeurs ;2004 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs : 2nd Paris–Brussels : 2nd

: 3rd Overall Ster Elektrotoer : 4th Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 9th Overall

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;2005 : 1st

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: 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs : 1st

: 1st

: 1st Stage 2

: 2nd

: 6th

: 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ::1st Stage 4 : 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;2006 : 1st

: 1st

: 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd

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: 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs : 2nd Le Samyn : 2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 4th Overall Eneco Tour ::1st Stage 7 : 9th

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;2007 : 1st Stage 1

: National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race : 2nd Le Samyn : 3rd Overall

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: 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve : 7th

E3 Prijs Vlaanderen E3 Saxo Bank Classic, previously known as E3 BinckBank Classic, E3 Harelbeke, Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke and E3-Prijs Vlaanderen, is an annual road cycling race in Flanders, Belgium. The race starts and finishes in Harelbeke, covering 203 k ...

: 7th

Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second ti ...

: 8th Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 10th

Boucles de l'Aulne Boucles de l'Aulne is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in May or June around Châteaulin, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2006, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was previously known as Grand P ...

;2008 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Vuelta a Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Sóller ::3rd Trofeo Pollença ::4th Trofeo Cala ::4th Trofeo Calvià : 1st

: 1st

: 1st Le Samyn : 1st MaillotAzul

Mountains classification,

: 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd

: 4th Overall

: 5th

: 6th

: 8th Overall

Tour de Picardie The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy Picardy (; Picard and french: Picardie, , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 Ja ...

;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Ster Elektrotoer ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Giro di Lombardia : 1st

: 1st

Gran Piemonte The Giro del Piemonte, since 2009 known also as Gran Piemonte, is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. The race first took place in 1906. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Eu ...

: 1st Coppa Sabatini : 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Tour of Flanders : 4th Amstel Gold Race : 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Road race,

: 7th Chrono des Nations : 9th UCI World Ranking : 9th Brabantse Pijl ;2010 : 1st Giro di Lombardia : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st

: Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 3 & 19 ::Held Jersey red

after Stages 3–7 : 2nd UCI World Ranking : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Gent–Wevelgem : 3rd Tour of Flanders : 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 1 : 5th Brabantse Pijl : 6th La Flèche Wallonne : 7th Overall Tour of Qatar : 9th

: 9th

Halle–Ingooigem Halle–Ingooigem is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing compet ...

;2011 : 1st UCI World Tour : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotBélgica

Road race ::1st MaillotBélgica

Time trial : 1st Jersey black

Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Ster ZLM Toer ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st La Flèche Wallonne : 1st

: 1st

: 1st Montepaschi Strade Bianche : 1st Brabantse Pijl : 1st

::1st Stage 1 ::Held Jersey yellow

after Stage 1 : 1st Stage 1 Volta ao Algarve : 2nd Overall Eneco Tour ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd

: 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal : 8th Giro di Lombardia : 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 5 : 9th Tour of Flanders ;2012 :

::1st

Road race ::2nd Silver medal blank

Team time trial : Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 9 & 19 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Amstel Gold Race : 7th Overall Tour of Belgium ;2013 : 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a España : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium : 5th Amstel Gold Race : 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 9th Road race,

: 10th

;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Ster ZLM Toer ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 1st Jersey red

Overall Tour of Beijing ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Brabantse Pijl : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification,

: 3rd

Classic Sud-Ardèche Classic Sud-Ardèche (also known as the Souvenir Francis Delpech) is a road bicycle race held annually in late-February in the Ardèche department of France. The race was a National Event from its inception in 2001 until 2007, before joining the ...

: 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Jersey blue

Points classification : 4th London–Surrey Classic : 6th

Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of G ...

: 7th Road race,

: 7th Overall Eneco Tour : 7th Giro di Lombardia : 8th Roma Maxima : 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 9th

La Drôme Classic La Drôme Classic ( en, The Drôme Classic) is an elite men's road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drôme region of France, held by the Ruoms Cyclisme Organisation. It is run as part of a weekend of racing in the south Ardèche, known as ...

: 10th La Flèche Wallonne ;2015 : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 12 & 18 : 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification : 2nd

: 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 4th Overall Eneco Tour : 7th Overall

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northw ...

::1st Stage 3 : 7th

: 8th Overall Dubai Tour : 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal : 10th Road race,

: 10th Amstel Gold Race ;2016 : 1st MaillotBélgica

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Vuelta a Murcia : 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st MaillotAzul

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 3rd

Volta Limburg Classic Volta Limburg Classic is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in late March or early April in Limburg, Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , ...

: 6th Overall Dubai Tour : 6th Tre Valli Varesine : 6th

: 8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships : 8th Overall

Arctic Race of Norway The Arctic Race of Norway is an annual multiple stage bicycle race held in northern Norway. The first edition was in 2013, from 8 August to 11 August, and lasted for four days. The organising partners are Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and Arct ...

;2017 : 1st Jersey white

Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Jersey blue

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Tour of Flanders : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse : 1st Jersey orange

Combination classification,

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ...

: 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 2nd E3 Harelbeke : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium : 9th Overall

BinckBank Tour The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the orig ...

Combativity award The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numb ...

Stage 5

;2018 : 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Le Samyn : 2nd E3 Harelbeke : 3rd Tour of Flanders : 3rd Vuelta a Murcia : 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 8th

Stage 16

;2019 : 1st Paris–Roubaix : Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 12 & 17 :: Jersey yellow number

Combativity award Stage 12 : 3rd

: 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 10th Overall Tour de la Provence ::1st Stage 3 ;2020 : 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th

;2021 : 4th

Brussels Cycling Classic The Brussels Cycling Classic (known until June 2013 as Paris–Brussels) is a semi classic European bicycle race, one of the oldest races on the international calendar. History Paris–Brussels was first run on 12 August 1893 as an amateur even ...

: 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th Druivenkoers Overijse ;2022 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ::1st Stage 3 : 6th

Binche–Chimay–Binche Binche–Chimay–Binche (also known as Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually between Binche and Chimay, in Wallonia, Belgium. The race is rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continenta ...

: 8th

Tour du Doubs The Tour du Doubs is a single-day road bicycle race, currently held annually in September in the region of Doubs, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road ...

: 10th

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results

This table shows Gilbert's results in the great classics.

Major championships timeline

Awards and honours

* Crystal Bicycle: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Sprint d'Or: 2008 * Belgian Sportsman of the year: 2009, 2010, 2011 *

Belgian National Sports Merit Award The Belgian National Sports Merit Award is an annual award handed out to a Belgian sportsperson or -team for exceptional merit. Players can only win the award once during their career, making this trophy one of the most prestigious in Belgian sports ...

: 2009 * Crystal Bicycle: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Flandrien Award: 2009, 2010, 2011 * AIJC trophy: 2009 * Walloon-Brussels Sports Merit Award: 2010, 2011, 2012 * Vélo d'Or Mondial: 2011 * Mendrisio d'Or: 2012 * Square Philippe Gilbert in

: 2013 * Honorary Citizen of Valkenburg: 2016 * Ruban Jaune: 2019 * CyclingRanking - Overall ranking (12th place)

Controversies

Gilbert was accused of abusing cortisone by an anonymous former Lotto teammate during his dominant period with , an allegation which the Belgian vehemently denies.

Notes

References

External links

* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Philippe 1982 births Living people People from Verviers Belgian male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Belgium Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Belgian Tour de France stage winners Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners Belgian Vuelta a España stage winners UCI Road World Champions (elite men) 2011 Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from Liège Province UCI World Tour winners Tour de Suisse stage winners

Personal life

Career

FDJeux.com (2003–08)

First three seasons

2006 season

2007 season

2008 season

Silence–Lotto (2009–11)

2009 season

2010 season

2011 season

BMC Racing Team (2012–16)

2012 season

2013 season

2014 season

2015 season

2016 season

Quick-Step Floors (2017–19)

2017 season

2018 season

2019 season

Lotto–Soudal

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results

Major championships timeline

Awards and honours

Controversies

Notes

References

Further reading

External links