page_title: Philippe Gilbert
section_title: 2006 season
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe Gilbert / Career / FDJeux.com (2003–08) / 2006 season
caption_attribution_description: The Belgian cyclist Philippe Gilbert
context_page_description: Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal. Gilbert is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège – in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour.
  A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice, the Giro di Lombardia twice, the Amstel Gold Race four times, La Flèche Wallonne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the Clásica de San Sebastián, the Tour of Flanders, and Paris–Roubaix. He is the second person in history to win all three Ardennes classics in a single year. In 2017, Gilbert became the third rider after Eddy Merckx and Jan Raas to win both the Tour of Flanders and the Amstel Gold Race in the same year.
  He has also won stages at each of the three cycling Grand Tours: three stages at the Giro d'Italia, one stage at the Tour de France, and seven stages at the Vuelta a España.
context_section_description: 2006 would become his most successful year to the point when he won the prestigious Omloop Het Volk after repeatedly attacking until he got away alone with 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) to go. During the season he also won the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the Grand Prix de Wallonie as well as stages at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Eneco Tour.
caption: Gilbert at the 2006 Tour de France
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