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Dates | 1 September 2018 | ||||||||||||
Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
Distance | 185.7 km (115.4 mi) | ||||||||||||
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The 2019 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 53rd edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens road cycling one day race in and around Leuven. [1] It was held on 16 August 2018 as a 1.1 categorised race and was part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour and the 2018 Belgian Road Cycling Cup.
The race ended in a bunch sprint of roughly 50 riders, with Niccolò Bonifazio taking the victory ahead of Hugo Hofstetter. Timothy Dupont took third place, thereby managing to end on the podium for the third year running, after also becoming third in the 2018 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens and winning the 2017 edition. Defending champion Jasper Stuyven did not take part this year.
Twenty-three teams were invited to take part in the race. These included eleven UCI Professional Continental teams and twelve UCI Continental teams.
UCI Professional Continental Teams
UCI Continental Teams
Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
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1 | Niccolò Bonifazio (ITA) | Total Direct Énergie | 4h 16' 50" |
2 | Hugo Hofstetter (FRA) | Cofidis | s.t. |
3 | Timothy Dupont (BEL) | Wanty–Gobert | s.t. |
4 | Christophe Noppe (BEL) | Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise | s.t. |
5 | Gianni Vermeersch (BEL) | Corendon–Circus | s.t. |
6 | Amaury Capiot (BEL) | Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise | s.t. |
7 | Sjoerd van Ginneken (NED) | Roompot–Charles | s.t. |
8 | Tom Van Asbroeck (BEL) | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
9 | André Carvalho (POR) | Hagens Berman Axeon | s.t. |
10 | Piotr Havik (NED) | Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes | s.t. |
Marcel Sieberg is a German former road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious. He turned professional in 2005. He competed in the Tour de France a total of nine times. For the majority of his career, he was one of André Greipel's lead-out men, having been teammates at both Team HTC–Columbia (2008–2010) and then later Lotto–Soudal (2011–2018). In that role he assisted Greipel to over 100 race wins. However, in August 2018 it emerged that the pair would go their separate ways for 2019, with Sieberg signing an initial one-year deal with Bahrain–Merida, taking on a role as a lead-out man for another German sprinter, Phil Bauhaus. He played a role in Bauhaus' stage wins at the 2020 Tour of Saudi Arabia and the 2021 Tour de Hongrie. In June 2021, his team announced that he would retire at the end of the season.
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