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Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

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Date
  
Late-August

English name
  
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

Discipline
  
Road bicycle racing

First edition
  
1980

Final edition
  
2004

Region
  
Brussels, Belgium

Editions
  
25

First winner
  
Knut Knudsen

Edition
  
25

Local name(s)
  
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (French)

Type
  
Individual Time Trial Team Time Trial

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Grand Prix Eddy Merckx was a cycle race around Brussels, where Eddy Merckx was born. It was held between 1980 and 2004, disappearing after the creation of the UCI ProTour in 2005. The race was initially an individual time trial, becoming a Team time trial of two riders in 1998.

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Winners

  • Lance Armstrong's shared victory with Viatcheslav Ekimov, was stripped in 2012 due to doping. So now there is only one winner of the 2000 race.

    • References

    Grand Prix Eddy Merckx Wikipedia
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