Race details | |
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Date | Early September |
Region | Leuven, Belgium |
English name | Grand Prix Jef Scherens |
Local name(s) | Grote Prijs Jef Scherens (in Dutch) Grote Prijs Poeske Scherens (in Dutch) |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single-day |
Web site |
ks-leuven |
History | |
First edition | 1963 |
Editions | 56 (as of 2023) |
First winner | Marcel Van Den Bogaert ( BEL) |
Most wins | Frans Verbeeck ( BEL) (4 wins) |
Most recent | Arnaud De Lie ( BEL) |
Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. [1] Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world champion Jef Scherens. [2]
The local city circuit from the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, hosted in Leuven, was largely based on the circuit that is ridden during the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens. [3]
Race details | |
---|---|
Date | Early September |
Region | Leuven, Belgium |
English name | Grand Prix Jef Scherens |
Local name(s) | Grote Prijs Jef Scherens (in Dutch) Grote Prijs Poeske Scherens (in Dutch) |
Discipline | Road race |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single-day |
Web site |
ks-leuven |
History | |
First edition | 1963 |
Editions | 56 (as of 2023) |
First winner | Marcel Van Den Bogaert ( BEL) |
Most wins | Frans Verbeeck ( BEL) (4 wins) |
Most recent | Arnaud De Lie ( BEL) |
Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. [1] Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world champion Jef Scherens. [2]
The local city circuit from the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, hosted in Leuven, was largely based on the circuit that is ridden during the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens. [3]