page_title: Philippe Gilbert
section_title: 2013 season
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe Gilbert / Career / BMC Racing Team (2012–16) / 2013 season
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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: In 2013, Gilbert headed towards the World Championships without a single win in the rainbow jersey, in danger of his first winless season since turning professional in 2003. He started the Vuelta a España hoping that the competition would, for the second successive year, kick-start his season. After being narrowly defeated in a sprint by Zdeněk Štybar on stage 7, Gilbert finally clinched a victory in the rainbow stripes when he caught and passed Edvald Boasson Hagen to win stage 12.
caption: Gilbert wearing the rainbow jersey at the 2013 Tour de France
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