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The 2017 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 51st edition of the
Grote Prijs Jef Scherens Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens (until 2021 ''Grote Prijs Jef Scherens'') is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is ...
road cycling one day race in and around
Leuven Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipalit ...
It was held on 20 August 2017 as a 1.1 categorised race and was part of the
2017 UCI Europe Tour The 2017 UCI Europe Tour was the thirteenth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2017 season began on 26 January 2017 with the Vuelta a Mallorca, Trofeo Santanyí-Ses Salines-Campos and ended on 17 October 2017 with the Nationale Sluitingsprijs. Be ...
and the 2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup.
Timothy Dupont Timothy Dupont (born 1 November 1987 in Ghent) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France. Major results ;2010 : 1st Grote Prijs Stad Geel : 5th Dwar ...
won the race in a bunch sprint. Defending champion
Dimitri Claeys Dimitri Claeys (born 18 June 1987) is a Belgian former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2007 to 2022 for six different teams. During his professional career, Claeys took five victories – including the general classification at the 2 ...
was not present as his team did not take part.


Teams

Twenty teams were invited to take part in the race. These included three
UCI WorldTeam A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...
s, seven
UCI Professional Continental The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...
teams and twelve
UCI Continental The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the ...
teams.


Result


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External links

* Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2017 UCI Europe Tour 2017 in Belgian sport {{Belgium-cycling-race-stub