Claim: The 2018 Gent–Wevelgem resulted to Peter Sagan’s—a Slovak professional road bicycle racer of the UCI WorldTeam Bora-Hansgrohe which had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career before going into road racing—win followed by Elia Viviani from the Quick-Step Floors while Wout van Aert from the Vérandas Willems-Crelan team was in the last place.
Evidence: Peter Sagan (SVK) 1 Bora–Hansgrohe 2 Quick-Step Floors 10 Wout van Aert (BEL) Vérandas Willems–Crelan Peter Sagan (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpɛtɛr ˈsaɡan; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the Junior Mountain Bike World Championship in 2008, before moving to road racing. Result As Gent–Wevelgem was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton. Groupama–FDJ Cofidis Lotto–Soudal AG2R La Mondiale Mitchelton–Scott Quick-Step Floors Trek–Segafredo Elia Viviani (ITA)