(1982-07-05) 5 July 1982 (age 41) Verviers, Belgium[3]
Height
1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[4]
Weight
69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)[4]
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
Classics specialist Puncheur
Professional teams
2003–2008
FDJeux.com
2009–2011
Silence–Lotto
2012–2016
BMC Racing Team
2017–2019
Quick-Step Floors[5]
2020–2022
Lotto–Soudal[6][7]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2011)
Giro d'Italia
3 individual stages (2009, 2015)
Combativity award (2015)
Vuelta a España
7 individual stages (2010, 2012, 2013, 2019)
Stage races
Tour of Beijing (2014)
Four Days of Dunkirk (2022)
Three Days of De Panne (2017)
Tour of Belgium (2011)
Ster ZLM Toer (2009, 2011, 2014)
One-day races and Classics
World Road Race Championships (2012)
National Road Race Championships (2011, 2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2011)
Paris–Roubaix (2019)
Tour of Flanders (2017)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011)
Giro di Lombardia (2009, 2010)
Amstel Gold Race (2010, 2011, 2014, 2017)
La Flèche Wallonne (2011)
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2006, 2008)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2011)
Strade Bianche (2011)
Paris–Tours (2008, 2009)
Brabantse Pijl (2011, 2014)
GP de Québec (2011)
Gran Piemonte (2009, 2010)
GP de Fourmies (2006)
Other
UCI World Tour (2011)
Vélo d'Or (2011)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Belgium
World Championships
2012 Valkenburg
Road race
Representing BMC Racing Team
World Championships
2012 Valkenburg
Team time trial
Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012,[8] and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, 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 2011.[9] Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour.[10]
A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice (2008, 2009), the Giro di Lombardia twice (2009, 2010), the Amstel Gold Race four times (2010, 2011, 2014, 2017), La Flèche Wallonne (2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011), the Clásica de San Sebastián (2011), 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 2009 and two in 2015), one stage at the Tour de France (in 2011), and seven stages at the Vuelta a España (two in both 2010 and 2012, one in 2013 and two in 2019).
Gilbert retired as a professional, after the 2022 Paris–Tours.[11] 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.[12]
^"Gilbert honored as "Boar of Ardennes" in Aywaille". Cycling News. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^"De vier zeges van 'Monsieur Cauberg' op een rijtje". het Nieuwsblad. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
^"Philippe Gilbert – About Phil". Retrieved 6 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
^ ab"Philippe Gilbert, Deceuninck – Quick-Step Cycling team". Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
^Torrego, José María (23 December 2018). "El Deceuninck Quick Step busca no sucumbir del cetro mundial del ciclismo en 2019" [The Deceuninck Quick Step seeks not to succumb from the cycling world title in 2019]. La Guía del Ciclismo (in Spanish). Digipress Ibérica SL. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^Ballinger, Alex (19 August 2019). "Philippe Gilbert signs with Lotto–Soudal for three years". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^"Lotto Soudal". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
^"Belgium's Philippe Gilbert blasts to men's road race victory on the Cauberg". The Daily Telegraph. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^Atkins, Ben (25 April 2011). "Philippe Gilbert's Ardennes triple lifts him to World number one spot". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^"UCI presents Philippe Gilbert with 2011 WorldTour trophy at Peace and Sport International Forum". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^"Terpstra laatste in afscheidskoers, Démare wint Paris–Tours opnieuw". NOS.nl (in Dutch). 9 October 2022.
^"'Phil' Gilbert vereeuwigd in eregalerij onder Cauberg: 'Hier mooiste zege behaald'". NOS.nl (in Dutch). 15 October 2022.
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most successful rider in recent years has been classics specialist PhilippeGilbert. The Belgian won the race four times between2010 and 2017, basing his...
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assistance of a teammate. Examples of such racers include Paolo Bettini, PhilippeGilbert, Julian Alaphilippe, Alejandro Valverde, Simon Gerrans, Joaquim Rodríguez...
The general classification leader's yellow jersey was worn first by PhilippeGilbert of Omega Pharma–Lotto, who won the opening stage. In the following...
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medal in the time trial. He spent much of the year sharing a room with PhilippeGilbert who acted in a mentoring role. Evenepoel started the 2020 season at...
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confronted him, Philippe beat her, causing the bruises. Jacques explains that he walked in on the beating and shot Philippe. Gilbert Neuville hired thugs...
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Belgian Women's 4×100 metres relay team 2008 not awarded 2009 PhilippeGilbert 2010 Philippe Le Jeune 2011 Kevin Borlée 2012 Evi Van Acker 2013 Frederik...
event of the 2017 UCI World Tour. It was won for the fourth time by PhilippeGilbert (Quick-Step Floors), defeating Team Sky's Michał Kwiatkowski in a two-up...
beaten in a sprint of three by fellow countryman and defending champion PhilippeGilbert. Boonen became third in the Tour of Qatar, winning two stages, then...