The 1947 La Flèche Wallonne was the 11th edition of

La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...

cycle race and was held on the 15th of June 1947. The race started in

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and finished in

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. The race was won by

Ernest Sterckx Ernest Sterckx (1 December 1922 – 3 February 1975) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist. He won the 1946 Gent-Wevelgem and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 1952, 1953 and 1956. In 2023, a statue of him was erected in Heultje, Belgium. Maj ...

with a time of eight hours and forty-three minutes.

General classification

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1947 in road cycling

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1947 in Belgian sport {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub