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Belgian road cycling race
Classic Brugge-De Panne
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Date
| Late March
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Region
| West Flanders
, Belgium
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English name
| Three Days of Bruges?De Panne
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Local name(s)
| Driedaagse Brugge?De Panne
(in Dutch)
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Discipline
| Road
race
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Competition
| UCI World Tour
(men)
UCI World Tour
(women)
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Type
| Three day stage-race (until 2017)
Single-day race (for men & women, since 2018)
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Organiser
| KVC Panne Sportief
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Race director
| Bernard Vandekerckhove
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Web site
| minervaclassic
.be
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First edition
| 1977
(
1977
)
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Editions
| 48 (as of 2024)
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First winner
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Roger Rosiers
(
BEL
)
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Most wins
|
Eric Vanderaerden
(
BEL
)
(5 wins)
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Most recent
|
Jasper Philipsen
(
BEL
)
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First edition
| 2018
(
2018
)
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Editions
| 7 (as of 2024)
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First winner
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Jolien D'Hoore
(
BEL
)
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Most wins
| No repeat winners
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Most recent
|
Elisa Balsamo
(
ITA
)
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The
Classic Brugge?De Panne
is a
road cycling race
in Belgium in late March. Since 2018 it is raced over two days with a men's race on Wednesday and a women's race on Thursday.
[1]
Both races start in
Bruges
and finish in the seaside resort of
De Panne
.
[2]
The women's event is included in the
UCI Women's World Tour
; the men's race was part of the
UCI Europe Tour
as a
1.HC event
, but was promoted to the
UCI World Tour
as a
1.WT
event in
2019.
[3]
The
2020 edition
was rescheduled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[4]
History
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Three Days of De Panne
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The Three Days of De Panne was created in 1977 as a three-day cycling event in the week leading up to the
Tour of Flanders
, in late March or early April. The first day was usually a hilly stage starting in De Panne and finishing in the
Flemish Ardennes
. The second day held a long flat stage back to the Flemish coast, with a finish in
Koksijde
. The third day consisted of two stages that both started and finished in De Panne, of which the final stage was an individual time trial. Raced from Tuesday to Thursday, it was the last Flemish race ahead of the Tour of Flanders and was considered a desirable preparation for the main event on Sunday.
Eric Vanderaerden
, a strong sprinter and time triallist, won the race five times in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Three Days of Bruges?De Panne
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Since 2018, the Three Days of De Panne is raced under a new format following a calendar switch with
Dwars door Vlaanderen
.
[1]
[N 1]
The race comes one week earlier, in the week following
Milan?San Remo
, and the men's event has morphed into a one-day race on Wednesday.
[5]
The Flemish Ardennes roads and the concluding time trial were abandoned in favour of a route entirely in the province of
West Flanders
. The iconic
Kemmelberg
and several cobbled sectors have a more prominent part in the new course.
[6]
In order to continue the multi-day format, a women's event was inaugurated on the day after the men's race.
[N 2]
Both races start in
Bruges
and have two finishing circuits in and around
De Panne
. The women's race is part of the
UCI Women's World Tour
, cycling's top tier professional competition.
[7]
[8]
Jolien D'Hoore
won the
first running of the women's Three Days
in a sprint.
[9]
Winners
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Men's race
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Multiple winners
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Wins per country
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Women's race
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Multiple winners
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Wins per country
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Notes
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Flanders Classics
, organizer of
Dwars door Vlaanderen
, lobbied with UCI and was granted the date formerly held by the Three Days of De Panne. The organizers of the Three Days were granted the slot held by
Dwars door Vlaanderen
, but chose to shorten their race, as the next
Flemish classic
,
E3 Harelbeke
, is raced on a Friday.
- ^
Initially the Three Days organizers had another three-day concept in mind, with a two-day contest for men and one day for women. The event would kick off with a sprinters challenge on Tuesday, but this idea was abandoned due to a lack of teams' interest. However, organizers intend to return to a three-day format in the future.
[1]
References
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External links
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Men's races
| Multi-stage races
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One-day races
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Women's races
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