Belgian cycling race
Race details | |
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Date | September (GP Heule: Sept, May, June) |
Region | Flanders, Belgium |
English name | Circuit of the Flax Region |
Local name(s) | Omloop van de Vlasstreek (in Dutch), Circuit de la Région Linière (in French) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | Cat. 1.2 |
Type | One-day race |
History | |
First edition | 1945 (1945) |
Editions | 49 |
Final edition | 1994 |
First winner | Jérôme Dofrumont (BEL) |
Most wins |
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Final winner | Bo Hamburger (DEN) |
Omloop van de Vlasstreek was a Belgian post-WW II cycling race organized for the last time in 1994.
Heule, a small village in the Kortrijk region in West-Flanders, was both start and finish place.
In the first years, it was known as the G.P of Heule.
The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Briek Schotte and Willy Teirlinck.
Winners
References
- "Circuit de la région linière (Bel) – Ex". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- "Circuit de la Region Liniere". FirstCycling.com. 2022.
- "G.P de Heule (Bel) – Kermesse". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 25 December 2022.