2012 Amstel Gold Race

2012 Amstel Gold Race Amstel Gold Race 2012.jpg 2012 UCI World Tour 11 28 15 April 2012 1 256.5 km 6h Enrico Gasparotto ITA AST 2012 Jelle Vanendert BEL LTB 2012 Peter Sagan SVK LIQ 2012 2011 2013 The 2012 Amstel Gold Race was the 47th running of the Amstel Gold Race, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 15 April 2012 over a distance of 256.5 km 1 off and was the eleventh race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season. The race was won by AST 2012 rider Enrico Gasparotto after outsprinting several of his rivals to the finish on the Cauberg; it was his first Classics victory,http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/15042012/2/gasparotto-surprises-favourites-claim-amstel-gold.html Gasparotto surprises favourites to claim Amstel Gold Yahoo! Eurosport TF1 Group 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 Reuters and the first by an Italian rider in a one-day classic since Damiano Cunego won the 2008 Giro di Lombardia.https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g5j9nuokTOf97gI9xuB-HFP3BRIg?docId=CNG.49b23f4c25ba05f7dffa9bcc560dd4f1.271 https://archive.today/20130124190231/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g5j9nuokTOf97gI9xuB-HFP3BRIg?docId=CNG.49b23f4c25ba05f7dffa9bcc560dd4f1.271 dead January 24, 2013 Italy's Enrico Gasparotto wins Amstel Gold Race Google News Google Inc. 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 Agence France-Presse Second place went to LTB 2012's Jelle Vanendert,http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/532467/gasparotto-wins-amstel-gold-race.html Gasparotto wins Amstel Gold Race Cycling Weekly IPC Media Limited 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 Nigel Wynn while Peter Sagan rounded out the podium placings for the LIQ 2012 team.http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11630/Enrico-Gasparotto-takes-a-thrilling-victory-in-the-Amstel-Gold-Race.aspx Enrico Gasparotto takes a thrilling victory in the Amstel Gold Race VeloNation VeloNation LLC 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 Ben Atkins Two-time defending race winner Philippe Gilbert (BMC 2012) finished in the same time as Sagan, but was classified in sixth place.http://www.cyclingnews.com/amstel-gold-race/results Gasparotto wins Amstel stunner Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150418184318/http://www.cyclingnews.com/amstel-gold-race/results 18 April 2015 Teams As the Amstel Gold Race was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Six other squads were given wildcard places into the race,http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/amstel-gold-race-wildcards-announced Amstel Gold Race wildcards announced Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 18 January 2012 15 April 2012http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rusvelo-europcar-nab-final-amstel-gold-wildcards RusVelo, Europcar nab final Amstel Gold wildcards Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 2 February 2012 15 April 2012http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rusvelo-loses-amstel-gold-race-invite RusVelo loses Amstel Gold Race invite Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 1 March 2012 15 April 2012 and as such, formed the event's 24-team peloton. The 24 teams that competed in the race were:http://www.cyclingnews.com/amstel-gold-race/start-list Amstel Gold Race 2012 start list Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 15 April 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120415054450/http://www.cyclingnews.com/amstel-gold-race/start-list 2012-04-15 dead 22em WGG 2012 ALM 2012 ARG 2012b AST 2012 BMC 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 RAB 2012 RNT 2012 SAX 2012a SKY 2012 TSV 2012 VCD 2012 Results http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&SportID=102&CompetitionID=20523&EditionID=709940&SeasonID=482&ClassID=1&GenderID=1&EventID=10635&EventPhaseID=709941&Phase1ID=-1&Phase2ID=0&Phase3ID=0&PhaseClassificationID=-1&Detail=1&Ranking=0&All=0&TaalCode=2&StyleID=0&Cache=8 UCI WorldTour Ranking #10 – Amstel Gold Race (NED/UWT) 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 Union Cycliste Internationale Infostrada Sports https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181718/http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&SportID=102&CompetitionID=20523&EditionID=709940&SeasonID=482&ClassID=1&GenderID=1&EventID=10635&EventPhaseID=709941&Phase1ID=-1&Phase2ID=0&Phase3ID=0&PhaseClassificationID=-1&Detail=1&Ranking=0&All=0&TaalCode=2&StyleID=0&Cache=8 3 March 2016 dead RiderTeamTime World Tour Points1 Enrico Gasparotto ITA AST 2012 6h 32' 35"802 Jelle Vanendert BEL LTB 2012 s.t.603 Peter Sagan SVK LIQ 2012 + 2"50 4 Óscar Freire ESP KAT 2012 + 2"405 Thomas Voeckler FRA EUC 2012 + 2"–6 Philippe Gilbert BEL BMC 2012 + 2"227 Samuel Sánchez ESP EUS 2012 + 2"148 Fabian Wegmann GER GRM 2012a + 4"109 Rinaldo Nocentini ITA ALM 2012+ 4"610 Bauke Mollema NED RAB 2012+ 4"2 References External links http://www.amstelgoldrace.nl/ Category:Amstel Gold Race Category:2012 UCI World Tour Category:2012 in Dutch sport