2012_Amstel_Gold_Race

2012 Amstel Gold Race

2012 Amstel Gold Race

Cycling race

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 kilometres (159.4 miles) and was the eleventh race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.

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The race was won by Astana rider Enrico Gasparotto after outsprinting several of his rivals to the finish on the Cauberg; it was his first Classics victory,[1] and the first by an Italian rider in a one-day classic since Damiano Cunego won the 2008 Giro di Lombardia.[2] Second place went to Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert,[3] while Peter Sagan rounded out the podium placings for the Liquigas–Cannondale team.[4] Two-time defending race winner Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team) finished in the same time as Sagan, but was classified in sixth place.[5]

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,[6][7][8] and as such, formed the event's 24-team peloton.

The 24 teams that competed in the race were:[9]

Results

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References

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    "RusVelo loses Amstel Gold Race invite". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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    "Amstel Gold Race 2012 start list". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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