Tour of Leuven explained

Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
Date:Early September
Region:Leuven, Belgium
English:Grand Prix Jef Scherens
Localnames:Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
Grote Prijs Poeske Scherens
Discipline:Road race
Competition:UCI Europe Tour
Type:Single-day
Number:57 (as of 2024)
Mostwins: (4 wins)

Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens (until 2021 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium.[1] Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world champion Jef Scherens.[2]

The local city circuit from the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, hosted in Leuven, was largely based on the circuit that is ridden during the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023 . Tour of Leuven . FirstCycling.com . en.
  2. Web site: 6 October 2023 . Grote Prijs Jef Scherens - Rondom Leuven(1.1) . ProcyclingStats . en.
  3. Web site: G.P Jef Scherens / Leuven (Bel) - Cat.1.1 . 31 December 2021 . Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu . fr.