Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem (HC), Belgium
Winners, podium, distance, average speed.
The Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem has had a complicated history.
It is a single-day race run in the Flemish Brabant area of Belgium, generally in September. Originally, in 1982, the event was organized in homage to the great Belgian racer Raymond Impanis and was run through 1994.
In 2005 it was revived as a race for juniors then in 2006 for Elite riders without contracts. In 2011 it became a full-on professional race with a UCI ranking of 1.2 and to give the race a bit more life, the race title also included Flemish champion Peter van Petegem.
In 2013 the name was again changed, this time to Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem. The race is now sponsored by the Primus brewery, located in the race's finshing city of Haacht. The finish line is at the brewery's gates.
Since 2012 the UCI has ranked it 1.1 made made it part of the Europe Tour. In 2015 the race was upgraded to "HC".
Podium history since again becoming UCI professional race:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 2011 | Sander Cordeel 3hr 57min 10sec |
Maarten Craeghs @ s.t. |
Kirill Pozdnyakov @ sec |
175 km | 44.273 |
| 2012 | André Greipel 4hr 39min 40sec |
Kevin Ista @ s.t. |
Kevin Peeters @ s.t. |
201 km | 42.123 |
| 2013 | Sep Vanmarcke 4hr 21min 48sec |
Pieter Weening @ s.t. |
Jérôme Baugnies @ 7sec |
197 km | 45.149 |
| 2014 | Greg van Avermaet 4hr 20min 4sec |
Tosh Van der Sande @ s.t. |
Michal Golas @ s.t. |
196.6 km | 45.358 |
| 2015 | Sean de Bie 4hr 31min 14sec |
Dimitri Claeys @ 1sec |
Floris Claeys @ s.t. |
199.2 km | 44.065 |
| 2016 | Fernando Gaviria 4hr 37min 20sec |
Timothy Dupont @ s.t. |
Maximiliano Richeze @ s.t. |
200.4 km | 43.356 km/hr |
| 2017 | Matteo Trentin 4hr 36min 3sec |
Jempy Drucker @ 8sec |
André Greipel @ 18sec |
199.6 km | 43.383 km/hr |
| 2018 | Taco Van der Hoorn 4hr 27min 24sec |
Huub Duijn @ s.t. |
Frederik Frison @ s.t. |
193 km | 43.306 km/hr |