Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional

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, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, 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

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– in a single season, which he accomplished in

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. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the

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. A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several

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, including

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twice (2008,

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), the

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twice (

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), the Amstel Gold Race four times (

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), La Flèche Wallonne (

), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (

), the Clásica de San Sebastián (

), the

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(

), and

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(

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). 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

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(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

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(one in

and two in

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), one stage at the

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(in

), and seven stages at the

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(two in both

and

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, one in

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and two in

). Gilbert retired as a professional, after the 2022 Paris–Tours. He celebrated his retirement in

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where he became world champion and won four Amstel Gold Races. He was honoured with a mural in the caves of the Cauberg.

Personal life

Gilbert currently resides in

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. With his ex-wife Patricia Zevaert he has two sons, born 2010 and 2013. Gilbert's younger brother Jérôme has also been a racing cyclist. Gilbert committed to serve world peace through sport by joining

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. During the 2021 UCI Road World Championships in

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, he was elected to a four-year term as a representative for road cycling on the

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Athletes' Commission, winning 66 per cent of the vote.

Career

FDJeux.com (2003–08)

First three seasons

Born in Remouchamps in the municipality of Aywaille, Gilbert turned professional in 2003 by joining after riding as stagiaire for the team in late 2000. During this season he recorded his first victory by winning a stage in the Tour de l'Avenir. In 2004 he began by winning a stage in the Tour Down Under as well as the young rider classification. He participated in the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race at the

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where he finished 49th. He also won the Paris–Corrèze. In 2005 he won several races in France, which allowed him to win the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route. These victories included the Trophée des Grimpeurs, the Tour du Haut Var and the Polynormande. He also took stages in the

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and the Tour Méditerranéen.

2006 season

2006 would become his most successful year to the point when he won the prestigious Omloop Het Volk after repeatedly attacking until he got away alone with to go. During the season he also won the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the Grand Prix de Wallonie as well as stages at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Eneco Tour.

2007 season

In early 2007 he had a skin cancer lesion removed from his thigh, delaying the start of his season. That did not stop him from trying himself during

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, where he managed to escape on the Poggio with Riccardo Riccò before being captured from the finishing line. He could not get any victory during the season until the Tour du Limousin, where he claimed his only victory in 2007 by winning a stage. In

he was caught with to go along with Karsten Kroon and Filippo Pozzato.

2008 season

Gilbert started 2008 by winning the King of the Mountains competition at the Tour Down Under and the overall classification as well as two stages of the

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. He also finished third in

, accomplishing his first podium in a monument. He later won Omloop Het Volk for the second time in his career after a solo attack with almost to go. Four days later he won the GP Samyn. He finished the year by winning the classic

race in a late breakaway where he won a sprint between his three breakaway companions. The peloton finished four seconds back.

Silence–Lotto (2009–11)

2009 season

In 2009 he joined to lead the Belgian team in the classics, finishing third at the

and fourth in both the Amstel Gold Race and

. He also took his first stage in a Grand Tour by winning the 20th stage of the

and won a stage and the overall classification of the Ster Elektrotoer. Later in the season, he repeated his

win, attacking on the last climb with Tom Boonen and

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before outsprinting them to the line. A week later, he also won the prestigious

after escaping from the peloton with Samuel Sánchez, beating him to the finish by a half-length. It was his fourth victory in 10 days after also winning the Coppa Sabatini and Giro del Piemonte. At the end of the season, he was awarded the ''Flandrien of the Year'' award, recognising him as the best Belgian rider of the year.

2010 season

In 2010 he won his first classic of the year, April's Amstel Gold Race. After an aggressive race featuring many attacks, he won through a big attack in the last of the climb to the finish, comfortably winning by several bike lengths from the peloton. He also won the first stage of the Tour of Belgium. Gilbert then ended the 2010 season in superb form. He followed up two stage wins in the

with victories in the Giro del Piemonte and the Giro di Lombardia, repeating his 2009 wins in both races. The Giro di Lombardia was won with a solo attack in atrocious weather conditions.

2011 season

In 2011, Gilbert won the Montepaschi Strade Bianche, a race including of

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s. He then had a quadruple consecutive win: first, he won the Brabantse Pijl, then he repeated as winner of the Amstel Gold Race, breaking free on the Cauberg. Three days later, he won La Flèche Wallonne dropping his rivals on the final climb of the Mur de Huy and finally, he won

beating the Schleck brothers in the sprint. Gilbert thus became the second rider, after Davide Rebellin in 2004, to win the three Ardennes classics in a single year. During the first half of the season he also won stages at the Volta ao Algarve, Tirreno–Adriatico as well as the overall classification and a stage of both the Tour of Belgium and

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In late June, Gilbert won the

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. In July he won the opening stage of the

, winning by three seconds over Cadel Evans, allowing him to be the first person to put on the yellow jersey as overall leader. He lost that jersey in the

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the next day but still held the

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and

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jerseys after stage two. A week after the end of the Tour, Gilbert won the Clásica de San Sebastián, and in mid-August, Gilbert won the 3rd stage at the Eneco Tour, taking his 15th victory of the year. In September, Gilbert won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and took over the lead of the UCI world rankings with the 80 points awarded to the victor. He followed that performance two days later at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal by finishing third, despite stating that he felt "no pressure" after his

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victory. With that placing, Gilbert deposited another 50 UCI points in his account. He would race in the October Italian classic, the

, taking eighth place after he was distanced on the final climb. He eventually closed the season well ahead in the UCI World Tour rankings, with 718 points to the 584 points of his closest competitor, Cadel Evans. He won 18 races in the season, more than any other cyclist in the professional peloton. Gilbert was appointed as a member of the inaugural UCI Athletes' Commission in 2011.

BMC Racing Team (2012–16)

2012 season

In 2012, Gilbert signed for on a three-year contract reportedly worth €3 million a year. His goals for his new squad were to perform highly in the Spring classics and help his team-mate Cadel Evans repeat his 2011 feat of winning the

. Neither of those came to fruition, as Gilbert's best result in the one-day spring races was third at La Flèche Wallonne, where he got deposited on the final climb by Joaquim Rodríguez who won atop the historic Mur de Huy with a slim margin of 4 seconds. Three days prior, he took sixth position at the Amstel Gold Race and was pleased to achieve a top ten ranking in the

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race. He missed out on his goal to bring Evans in yellow to Paris and his best placing in a Tour de France stage was fourth. He also lost both of the Belgian National Championship titles he held, finishing third in the

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. On 26 August 2012, Gilbert finally managed his first victory of the season by winning the ninth stage of the

after breaking away together with Rodríguez. He later won a second stage of the race, winning stage nineteen on 7 September. On 23 September 2012, Gilbert won the UCI Elite Men's Road Race world championship and the rainbow jersey, ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen and

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by producing a massive surge on the final climb of the Cauberg.

2013 season

In 2013, Gilbert headed towards the World Championships without a single win in the rainbow jersey, in danger of his first winless season since turning professional in 2003. He started the

hoping that the competition would, for the second successive year, kick-start his season. After being narrowly defeated in a sprint by Zdeněk Štybar on

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, Gilbert finally clinched a victory in the rainbow stripes when he caught and passed Edvald Boasson Hagen to win stage 12.

2014 season

In 2014, Gilbert picked up his previous form when in the spring he won his second Brabantse Pijl and his third Amstel Gold Race.

2015 season

Gilbert finished third at Brabantse Pijl, seconds after his teammate Ben Hermans. At the Amstel Gold Race, Gilbert could not repeat his winning ways of 2014 and came in tenth after having attacked on the final climb of the day, the Cauberg. On the next Wednesday, Gilbert crashed out of La Flèche Wallonne. He then took part in

even though he was slightly injured and held on to the main group until the Côte de Saint-Nicolas, where he was dropped and finished 36th. He scored his first victory of the season at the

, besting the lead group on a sharp incline at the end of Stage 12. He repeated on Stage 18, where he participated in the early break. After being dropped on the last climb of the day, he returned to the remnants of the breakaway after the descent and attacked them to win solo.

2016 season

Gilbert took his first victory of the season in February at the one-day race

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, winning the sprint of a four-man group. He won the

in June.

Quick-Step Floors (2017–19)

2017 season

After 5 seasons with BMC, Gilbert joined for the 2017 season. Gilbert finished second in the Dwars door Vlaanderen behind teammate Yves Lampaert. The pair made the race-defining split along with Alexey Lutsenko from the team, and 's Luke Durbridge. Lampaert attacked with remaining and ultimately won the race by 39 seconds ahead of Gilbert, who led home Lutsenko and Durbridge in a sprint for second place. Later that week, in a three-up sprint finish of Belgian riders, Greg Van Avermaet () won E3 Harelbeke ahead of Gilbert and 's Oliver Naesen. The following week, Gilbert won the Three Days of De Panne after he attacked on the Muur van Geraardsbergen during the race's opening stage and soloed away to the victory by 17 seconds from his nearest competitor. He ultimately won the race by 38 seconds ahead of 's Matthias Brändle, and also won the sprints classification, primarily from his opening-day attack. Three days later, he won the

after a solo attack on the

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and holding off the rest of the field over the remaining . Gilbert became the first rider in twenty years to win both the

and

in his career. Two weeks after that he won the Amstel Gold Race for a fourth time and became the third rider to win the Tour of Flanders and the Amstel Gold Race in the same year, after Jan Raas and

. It was later revealed that he won the race despite riding for the last of the race with a minor kidney tear. The injury required treatment in hospital after the race, and ruled him out of La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

2018 season

In Stage 16 of the

, Gilbert was involved in a crash in a downhill section where he went over a wall, suffering lacerations and fracturing his kneecap. This was the same road where Fabio Casartelli died in the 1995 Tour de France. Gilbert climbed back onto his bike and rode the remaining to the finish in Bagnères-de-Luchon, earning him the Most Combative Rider award but ending his tour.

2019 season

In April, Gilbert won

in a sprint ahead of Nils Politt, thereby raising his total number of

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titles to five. During the

, Gilbert won stage 12 to

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, after dropping his breakaway companions to reach the finish alone. On stage 17 into

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, Gilbert was again victorious. In a stage marked by crosswinds, his team forced the pace and allowed him to win the sprint finish. The average speed of marked the fastest ever road stage over in a Grand Tour.

Lotto–Soudal

In August 2019, Gilbert signed a three-year contract with the team from the 2020 season onwards.

Career achievements

Major results

''Source:'' ;2000 : 10th Overall Giro della Lunigiana ;2002 : 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher ::1st Stage 6 : 4th Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 : 5th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux : 6th

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: 7th Tour du Finistère : 8th

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: 9th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 9th La Côte Picarde ;2003 : 2nd Tro-Bro Léon : 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 9 : 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 10th Trophée des Grimpeurs ;2004 (2 pro wins) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Paris–Corrèze : 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs : 2nd Paris–Brussels : 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 3rd Overall Ster Elektrotoer : 4th Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 3 : 9th Overall Regio-Tour ;2005 (5) : 1st French Road Cycling Cup : 1st Trophée des Grimpeurs : 1st Tour du Haut Var : 1st Polynormande : 1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen : 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 6th

: 8th Overall

::1st Stage 4 : 8th

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;2006 (5) : 1st Omloop Het Volk : 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd

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: 2nd Trophée des Grimpeurs : 2nd Le Samyn : 2nd

: 4th Overall Eneco Tour ::1st Stage 7 : 9th Paris–Bourges ;2007 (1) : 1st Stage 1 Tour du Limousin : National Road Championships ::2nd

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::3rd Road race : 2nd Le Samyn : 3rd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve : 7th

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: 7th

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: 8th 2007 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 2007 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 10th Boucles de l'Aulne ;2008 (5) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Trofeo Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Sóller ::3rd Trofeo Pollença ::4th Trofeo Cala ::4th Trofeo Calvià : 1st 2008 Paris–Tours, Paris–Tours : 1st 2008 Omloop Het Volk, Omloop Het Volk : 1st Le Samyn : 1st MaillotAzul

Mountains classification, Tour Down Under : 2nd 2008 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 3rd

: 4th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 5th 2008 Tour du Haut Var, Tour du Haut Var : 6th Paris–Bourges : 8th Overall Tour de Picardie ;2009 (7) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Ster Elektrotoer ::1st Stage 4 : 1st 2009 Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Lombardia : 1st 2009 Paris–Tours, Paris–Tours : 1st Giro del Piemonte, Gran Piemonte : 1st Coppa Sabatini : 1st Stage 20

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd

: 4th Amstel Gold Race : 4th

: 6th 2009 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 2009 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 7th Chrono des Nations : 9th 2009 UCI World Ranking, UCI World Ranking : 9th Brabantse Pijl ;2010 (6) : 1st 2010 Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Lombardia : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st Giro del Piemonte, Gran Piemonte :

::1st Stages 3 & 19 ::Held Jersey red

after Stages 3–7 : 2nd 2010 UCI World Ranking, UCI World Ranking : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd 2010 Gent–Wevelgem, Gent–Wevelgem : 3rd 2010 Tour of Flanders, Tour of Flanders : 3rd 2010 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 4th Overall Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 1 : 5th 2010 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 6th 2010 La Flèche Wallonne, La Flèche Wallonne : 7th Overall 2010 Tour of Qatar, Tour of Qatar : 9th 2010 Milan–San Remo, Milan–San Remo : 9th Halle–Ingooigem ;2011 (18) : 1st 2011 UCI World Tour, UCI World Tour : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

: 1st

Overall 2011 Tour of Belgium, Tour of Belgium ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 4 : 1st

: 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st La Flèche Wallonne : 1st Clásica de San Sebastián : 1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec : 1st Montepaschi Strade Bianche : 1st 2011 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie :

::1st Stage 1 ::Held Jersey yellow

after Stage 1 ::Held Jersey green

after Stages 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8–10 ::Held Jersey polkadot

after Stages 1–3 : 1st Stage 1 Volta ao Algarve : 2nd Overall Eneco Tour ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd 2011 Milan–San Remo, Milan–San Remo : 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal : 8th

: 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 5 : 9th 2011 Tour of Flanders, Tour of Flanders ;2012 (3) : 2012 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

2012 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race ::2nd Silver medal uci

2012 UCI Road World Championships – Men's team time trial, Team time trial :

::1st Stages 9 & 19 : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 3rd La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Amstel Gold Race : 7th Overall 2012 Tour of Belgium, Tour of Belgium ;2013 (1) : 1st Stage 12

: 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd 2013 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 3rd Overall 2013 Tour of Belgium, Tour of Belgium : 5th 2013 Amstel Gold Race, Amstel Gold Race : 5th

: 7th 2013 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 9th 2013 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 2013 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 10th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2014 (7) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 1st Jersey red

Overall 2014 Tour of Beijing, Tour of Beijing ::1st Stage 2 : 1st 2014 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 1st 2014 Amstel Gold Race, Amstel Gold Race : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification, Tour de Picardie : 3rd Classic Sud-Ardèche : 4th

, National Road Championships : 4th Overall 2014 Tour of Belgium, Tour of Belgium ::1st Jersey blue

Points classification : 4th 2014 RideLondon–Surrey Classic, London–Surrey Classic : 6th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton : 7th 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 2014 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 7th Overall 2014 Eneco Tour, Eneco Tour : 7th 2014 Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Lombardia : 8th 2014 Roma Maxima, Roma Maxima : 8th 2014 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 9th La Drôme Classic : 10th 2014 La Flèche Wallonne, La Flèche Wallonne ;2015 (4) : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami :

::1st Stages 12 & 18 : 2nd Overall 2015 Tour du Haut Var, Tour du Haut Var ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 2nd 2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Clásica de San Sebastián : 3rd 2015 Brabantse Pijl, Brabantse Pijl : 4th Overall 2015 Eneco Tour, Eneco Tour : 7th Overall 2015 Tour de Wallonie, Tour de Wallonie ::1st Stage 3 : 7th 2015 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec : 8th Overall 2015 Dubai Tour, Dubai Tour : 8th 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th 2015 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal : 10th 2015 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 2015 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 10th Amstel Gold Race ;2016 (4) : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st 2016 Vuelta a Murcia, Vuelta a Murcia : 2nd Overall 2016 Tour de Luxembourg, Tour de Luxembourg ::1st MaillotAzul

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 3rd Volta Limburg Classic : 6th Overall 2016 Dubai Tour, Dubai Tour : 6th Tre Valli Varesine : 6th 2016 Gran Piemonte, Gran Piemonte : 8th Road race, 2016 European Road Championships, UEC European Road Championships : 8th Overall Arctic Race of Norway ;2017 (5) : 1st Jersey white

Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Jersey blue

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st

: 1st 2017 Amstel Gold Race, Amstel Gold Race : 1st Stage 2 2017 Tour de Suisse, Tour de Suisse : 1st Jersey orange

Combination classification, 2017 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana : 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 2nd E3 Harelbeke : 4th Overall 2017 Tour of Belgium, Tour of Belgium : 9th Overall 2017 BinckBank Tour, BinckBank Tour : Jersey red number

Combativity award in the Tour de France, Combativity award Stage 5 2017 Tour de France, Tour de France ;2018 (1) : 1st

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd 2018 Le Samyn, Le Samyn : 2nd 2018 E3 Harelbeke, E3 Harelbeke : 3rd 2018 Tour of Flanders, Tour of Flanders : 3rd 2018 Vuelta a Murcia, Vuelta a Murcia : 5th 2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 8th 2018 Paris–Tours, Paris–Tours : Jersey red number

Combativity award in the Tour de France, Combativity award Stage 16

;2019 (4) : 1st

::1st Stages 12 & 17 :: Jersey yellow number

Combativity award Stage 12 : 3rd Halle–Ingooigem : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th 2019 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 10th Overall 2019 Tour de la Provence, Tour de la Provence ::1st Stage 3 ;2020 : 8th 2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th 2020 Milan–San Remo, Milan–San Remo ;2021 : 4th 2021 Brussels Cycling Classic, Brussels Cycling Classic : 5th 2021 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th Druivenkoers Overijse ;2022 (2) : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 6th Binche–Chimay–Binche : 8th Tour du Doubs : 10th Volta Limburg Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results

This table shows Gilbert's results in the great classics.

Major championships timeline

Awards and honours

* Crystal Bicycle: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * :fr:Sprint d'or, Sprint d'Or: 2008 * Belgian Sportsman of the year: 2009, 2010, 2011 * Belgian National Sports Merit Award: 2009 * Crystal Bicycle: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Flandrien of the Year, Flandrien Award: 2009, 2010, 2011 * AIJC trophy: 2009 * Walloon-Brussels Sports Merit Award: 2010, 2011, 2012 * Vélo d'Or, Vélo d'Or Mondial: 2011 * :fr:Mendrisio d'or, Mendrisio d'Or: 2012 * Square Philippe Gilbert in Aywaille: 2013 * : an annual cycle race from 2013 * Honorary Citizen of Valkenburg aan de Geul, Valkenburg: 2016 * Ruban Jaune: 2019 * CyclingRanking – Overall ranking (12th place)

Controversies

Gilbert was accused of abusing cortisone by an anonymous former Lotto teammate during his dominant period with , an allegation which the Belgian vehemently denies.

Notes

References

External links

* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Philippe 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Verviers Belgian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Belgium Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Belgian Tour de France stage winners Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners Belgian Vuelta a España stage winners UCI Road World Champions (elite men) 2011 Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from Liège Province UCI World Tour winners Tour de Suisse stage winners 21st-century Belgian sportsmen

Personal life

Career

FDJeux.com (2003–08)

First three seasons

2006 season

2007 season

2008 season

Silence–Lotto (2009–11)

2009 season

2010 season

2011 season

BMC Racing Team (2012–16)

2012 season

2013 season

2014 season

2015 season

2016 season

Quick-Step Floors (2017–19)

2017 season

2018 season

2019 season

Lotto–Soudal

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results

Major championships timeline

Awards and honours

Controversies

Notes

References

Further reading

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