The 2023 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was a Belgian

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one-day race that took place on 23 April 2023. It was the 109th edition of

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...

and the 19th event of the

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. It was won by

Remco Evenepoel Remco Evenepoel (; born 25 January 2000) is a Belgian professional cyclist and Olympic gold medalist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Evenepoel is widely regarded as one of the best Individual time trial, time trialists of his generation; he is a t ...

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for the second year in succession, after a solo attack in the last 40 kilometres.

Teams

Twenty-five teams participated in the race, including all eighteen

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s and seven UCI ProTeams. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * *

Summary

The highly anticipated duel between the World champion,

of Belgium and Slovenia's

Tadej Pogačar Tadej Pogačar (; born 21 September 1998) is a Slovenia, Slovenian professional road bicycle racing, cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His victories include three Tour de France, Tours de France (2020 Tour de France, 2020, 2021 Tou ...

, winner of the Amstel Gold and

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, failed to materialise after Pogačar suffered a serious crash early in the race, a broken wrist forcing his abandonment. Pogačar had surgery later that day on the fracture. In Pogačar's absence, Evenepoel immediately became the overwhelming favourite with young Briton and

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winner

Tom Pidcock Thomas Pidcock (born 30 July 1999) is a British cyclist who competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for the Swiss . Prior to his release in December 2024, he rode for UCI WorldTeam . After a p ...

and on-form Irish rider Ben Healy his most likely rivals. On

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, Evenepoel attacked in the saddle, moving away from the peloton and only Pidcock was able to follow him. A few kilometres later, Evenepoel pushed on the accelerator again and left Pidcock trailing, soloing 30 kilometres to retain the title. Pidcock refueled, readjusted and linked up with Healy and

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, holding off the rest of the peloton for the remainder of the race, Pidcock and Buitrago holding off Healy to complete the podium.

Result

References

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