2012 E3 Harelbeke

2012 E3 Harelbeke 2012 UCI World Tour 6 28 E3 Prijs Harelbeke-2012 poster.svg 300px 23 March 2012 1 203 km 4h 51' 59" Tom Boonen Belgium OPQ 2012 Óscar Freire Spain KAT 2012 Bernhard Eisel Austria SKY 2012 2011 2013 The 2012 E3 Harelbeke was the 55th running of the E3 Harelbeke single-day cycling race.http://www.podiumcafe.com/2012/3/22/2894046/e3-harelbeke-the-new-heavyweight-champ E3 Harelbeke: The New Heavyweight Champ 22 March 2012 23 March 2012 Podium Cafe Vox Media, Inc. Chris Fontecchio 24 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120324200047/http://www.podiumcafe.com/2012/3/22/2894046/e3-harelbeke-the-new-heavyweight-champ dead It was held on 23 March over a distance of 203 km 1 off and was the sixth race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season. E3 Harelbeke was held as a UCI World Tour event for the first time,http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/e3-harelbeke-to-be-worldtour-race-in-2012 E3 Harelbeke to be WorldTour race in 2012 Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 31 August 2011 23 March 2012 after previously being held as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour.http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=18402 54th E3 Prijs Harelbeke 1.HC Daily Peloton Earthlink 26 March 2011 23 March 2012 https://archive.today/20120723230246/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=18402 23 July 2012 dead dmy-all As well as its promotion to the World Tour, the race moved to a Friday running from a Saturday; the move was in order to give riders a day's break prior to the following World Tour event, Gent–Wevelgem.http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/03/news/flanders-predictor-e3-harelbeke-makes-worldtour-debut-friday_210113 Flanders predictor E3 Harelbeke makes WorldTour debut Friday Neal Rogers VeloNews Competitor Group, Inc. 22 March 2012 23 March 2012 24 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120324183955/http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/03/news/flanders-predictor-e3-harelbeke-makes-worldtour-debut-friday_210113 dead thumb|260px|Stijn Devolder leads over the Muur In a mass sprint finish, the race was won by OPQ 2012 rider Tom Boonen,http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23032012/58/five-star-boonen-takes-e3-harelbeke.html Five-star Boonen takes E3 Harelbeke Yahoo! Eurosport TF1 Group Lee Walker 23 March 2012 23 March 2012 who in the process, became the most successful rider in the history of the race; his fifth victory – after four previous victories in succession between 2004 and 2007 – in Harelbeke took him beyond the record tally of four victories that he had been sharing with fellow Belgian rider Rik Van Looy.http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11438/Tom-Boonen-edges-out-Oscar-Freire-to-take-his-fifth-E3-Prijs-Vlaanderen.aspx 23 March 2012 23 March 2012 VeloNation VeloNation LLC Ben Atkins Tom Boonen edges out Oscar Freire to take his fifth E3 Prijs Vlaanderen Boonen finished ahead of KAT 2012's Óscar Freire and SKY 2012's Bernhard Eisel, who completed the podium.http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/e3-prijs-vlaanderen-harelbeke-2012/results 23 March 2012 23 March 2012 Cycling News Future Publishing Limited Boonen victorious at E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke Brecht Decaluwé Teams thumb|260px|Route of E3 Harelbeke 2012 As E3 Harelbeke was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Seven other squads were given wildcard places into the race,http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/e3-prijs-vlaanderen-wildcards-announced E3 Prijs Vlaanderen wildcards announced Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 8 February 2012 23 March 2012 and as such, formed the event's 25-team peloton. The 25 teams that competed in the race were:http://www.e3prijsvlaanderen.be/files/2012HARELBEKEDeelnemers.pdf PDF Deelnemerslijst nl List of participants E3 Harelbeke Hand in Hand Cycling Club of Harelbeke 23 March 2012May 2020 InternetArchiveBot yes 22em WGG 2012 ALM 2012 AST 2012 BMC 2012 COF 2012 EUC 2012 EUS 2012 FAR 2012 FDJ 2012 GRM 2012a GEC 2012a KAT 2012 LAM 2012 LAN 2012 LIQ 2012 LTB 2012 MOV 2012 OPQ 2012 SUN 2012a RAB 2012 RNT 2012 SAX 2012a SKY 2012 TSV 2012 VCD 2012 Results thumb|260px|Trophy of 2012 E3 Harelbeke won by Tom Boonen (collection KOERS. Museum of Cycle Racing) http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&SportID=102&CompetitionID=20483&EditionID=709930&SeasonID=482&ClassID=1&GenderID=1&EventID=10635&EventPhaseID=709931&Phase1ID=-1&Phase2ID=0&Phase3ID=0&PhaseClassificationID=-1&Detail=1&Ranking=0&All=0&TaalCode=2&StyleID=0&Cache=8 UCI WorldTour Ranking #5 – E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke (BEL/UWT) 23 March 2012 23 March 2012 Union Cycliste Internationale Infostrada Sports https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055310/http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&SportID=102&CompetitionID=20483&EditionID=709930&SeasonID=482&ClassID=1&GenderID=1&EventID=10635&EventPhaseID=709931&Phase1ID=-1&Phase2ID=0&Phase3ID=0&PhaseClassificationID=-1&Detail=1&Ranking=0&All=0&TaalCode=2&StyleID=0&Cache=8 4 March 2016 dead CyclistTeamTime 1 Tom Boonen BEL OPQ 2012 4h 51' 59" 2 Óscar Freire ESP KAT 2012 s.t. 3 Bernhard Eisel AUT SKY 2012 s.t. 4 Leonardo Duque COL COF 2012 s.t. 5 Sep Vanmarcke BEL GRM 2012a s.t. 6 John Degenkolb GER SUN 2012a s.t. 7 Mathieu Ladagnous FRA FDJ 2012 s.t. 8 Alexandre Pichot FRA EUC 2012 s.t. 9 Alessandro Ballan ITA BMC 2012 s.t. 10 Sébastien Turgot FRA EUC 2012 s.t. References External links http://www.e3prijsvlaanderen.be/ E3 Harelbeke E3 Harelbeke Category:E3 Saxo Classic