Tour de la Région Wallonne/Ronde van het Waalse Gewest - 2.3

Belgium, August 3-8, 2001

2000 results    Stage list    Preview    Past winners

The Stages

  • Stage 1 - August 3: Mouscron - Mouscron, 173.9 km
  • Stage 2 - August 4: Mouscron - Clabecq, 174.4 km
  • Stage 3 - August 5: Charleroi - Couvin, 173.2 km
  • Stage 4 - August 6: Couvin - Marche-en-Famenne, 218.9 km
  • Stage 5 - August 7: Amay-Amay ITT, 34.1 km
  • Stage 6 - August 8: Blegny - Aubel, 160.7 km

Preview

Starting in Mouscron, Belgium is the of the Tour de la Région Wallonne/Ronde van het Waalse Gewest, a six day UCI 2.3 class stage race. The start list includes several riders who either completely missed the Tour de France, or performed badly. Tom Steels (Mapei), Johan Museeuw (Domo-Farm Frites), Andrei Tchmil (Lotto), Peter Van Petegem (Mercury), Ludovic Capelle (Ag2r) and David Millar (Cofidis) are amongst these.

Teams

Domo-Farm Frites, Mapei-Quick Step, Lotto, Cofidis, Mercury, Crédit Agricole, La Française des Jeux, Collstrop, Vlaanderen-T-Interim, Landbouwkrediet, Ville de Charleroi, Bigmat, Phonak, Fortis Eddy Merckx, Domo (Espoirs), RPC Liège.

Past Winners 

2000 Axel Merckx (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step
1999 Mikael-Holst Kyneb (Den) Team Home-Jack&Jones
1998 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Mapei-Bricobi
1997 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cédico
1996 Thomas Fleischer (Ger) Lotto
1995 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Elite

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin