On the Berendries, 30 km from the finish, Marc Sergeant, Rudy Dhaenens and Phil Anderson broke clear, but Sean Kelly made his team work in pursuit. At the top of the Muur van Geraardsbergen, three riders, Adrie van der Poel, Eddy Planckaert and Phil Anderson, were ahead of the peloton. Van der Poel was dropped on the Bosberg and Anderson made several frantic efforts to distance the fast Planckaert on the final run-in towards Meerbeke. Planckaert, relying on his strong sprint finish, easily beat Anderson at the line. Van der Poel won the sprint for third place, 18 seconds behind Planckaert.[1] Eddy Planckaert won his first monument classic, 12 years after his brother Walter Planckaert won the Tour of Flanders.[1]
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The race started in Sint-Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove) – totaling 279 km. The course featured 12 categorized climbs:
1988, tour, flanders, 72nd, running, tour, flanders, cycling, classic, held, april, 1988, eddy, planckaert, sprint, with, australian, phil, anderson, starters, finished, race, 72nd, tour, flandersrace, detailsdates3, april, 1988stages1distance279, winning, tim. The 72nd running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on 3 April 1988 It was won by Eddy Planckaert in a two man sprint with Australian Phil Anderson 88 of 197 starters finished the race 1 2 72nd Tour of FlandersRace detailsDates3 April 1988Stages1Distance279 km 173 4 mi Winning time7h 27 28 Results Winner Eddy Planckaert BEL ADR Second Phil Anderson AUS TVM Third Adrie van der Poel NED PDM 19871989 Contents 1 Race report 2 Route 3 Results 4 External links 5 ReferencesRace report editOn the Berendries 30 km from the finish Marc Sergeant Rudy Dhaenens and Phil Anderson broke clear but Sean Kelly made his team work in pursuit At the top of the Muur van Geraardsbergen three riders Adrie van der Poel Eddy Planckaert and Phil Anderson were ahead of the peloton Van der Poel was dropped on the Bosberg and Anderson made several frantic efforts to distance the fast Planckaert on the final run in towards Meerbeke Planckaert relying on his strong sprint finish easily beat Anderson at the line Van der Poel won the sprint for third place 18 seconds behind Planckaert 1 Eddy Planckaert won his first monument classic 12 years after his brother Walter Planckaert won the Tour of Flanders 1 Route editThe race started in Sint Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke Ninove totaling 279 km The course featured 12 categorized climbs Molenberg Oude Kwaremont Paterberg Kortekeer Taaienberg Berg ten Houte Eikenberg Varent Keiweg Leberg Berendries Muur Kapelmuur BosbergResults editResult Rank Rider Team Time 1 nbsp Eddy Planckaert BEL ADR 7h 27 28 2 nbsp Phil Anderson AUS TVM s t 3 nbsp Adrie van der Poel NED PDM 18 4 nbsp Sean Kelly IRL KAS s t 5 nbsp Steven Rooks NED PDM s t 6 nbsp Marc Sergeant BEL Hitachi s t 7 nbsp Charly Mottet FRA Systeme U Gitane s t 8 nbsp Rudy Dhaenens BEL PDM s t 9 nbsp Gert Jan Theunisse NED PDM s t 10 nbsp Giuseppe Calcaterra ITA Atala 3 19 External links editVideo of the 1988 Tour of Flanders Archived 2015 09 30 at the Wayback Machine on Sporza in Dutch References edit a b c Vanwalleghem Rik 1991 De Ronde van Vlaanderen Pinguin Belgium ISBN 90 73322 02 2 p208 McGann Bill McGann Carol 1988 Ronde van Vlaanderen results BikeRaceInfo Cherokee Village AR McGann Publishing Retrieved 29 February 2016 nbsp This Tour of Flanders race article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1988 Tour of Flanders amp oldid 1035832317, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
