1988 Tour of Flanders

72nd Tour of Flanders 3 April 1988 1 279 km 7h 27' 28" Eddy Planckaert BEL ADR Phil Anderson AUS TVM Adrie van der Poel NED PDM 1987 1989 The 72nd running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on 3 April 1988. It was won by Eddy Planckaert in a two-man sprint with Australian Phil Anderson. 88 of 197 starters finished the race.Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, 90-73322-02-2, p208McGann McGann Bill Carol http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/classics/Tour%20of%20Flanders/1988-tour-of-flanders.html 1988 Ronde van Vlaanderen results BikeRaceInfo McGann Publishing Cherokee Village, AR 29 February 2016 Race report On the Berendries, 30 km from the finish, Marc Sergeant, Rudy Dhaenens and Phil Anderson broke clear, but Sean Kelly made his team work in pursuit. At the top of the Muur van Geraardsbergen, three riders, Adrie van der Poel, Eddy Planckaert and Phil Anderson, were ahead of the peloton. Van der Poel was dropped on the Bosberg and Anderson made several frantic efforts to distance the fast Planckaert on the final run-in towards Meerbeke. Planckaert, relying on his strong sprint finish, easily beat Anderson at the line. Van der Poel won the sprint for third place, 18 seconds behind Planckaert. Eddy Planckaert won his first monument classic, 12 years after his brother Walter Planckaert won the Tour of Flanders. Route The race started in Sint-Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove) – totaling 279 km. The course featured 12 categorized climbs: Molenberg Oude Kwaremont Paterberg Kortekeer Taaienberg Berg ten Houte Eikenberg Varent Keiweg-Leberg Berendries Muur-Kapelmuur Bosberg Results 1 Eddy Planckaert BEL ADR 7h 27' 28" 2 Phil Anderson AUS TVM s.t. 3 Adrie van der Poel NED PDM + 18" 4 Sean Kelly IRL KAS s.t. 5 Steven Rooks NED PDM s.t. 6 Marc Sergeant BEL Hitachi s.t. 7 Charly Mottet FRA Système U–Gitane s.t. 8 Rudy Dhaenens BEL PDM s.t. 9 Gert-Jan Theunisse NED PDM s.t. 10 Giuseppe Calcaterra ITA Atala + 3' 19" External links Video of the 1988 Tour of Flanders https://web.archive.org/web/20150930011255/http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone/retro/retro_voorjaarsklassiekers/retro_rvv/1.993593 2015-09-30 on Sporza (in Dutch) References Category:Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders