The Ardennes Weekend was an overall points classification based on the results of two Belgian classic cycling races: La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
It was created in 1950, and included, only that year, a third race, Liège-Courcelles. This classification first existed until 1964. It disappeared when the Flèche Wallonne became independent: from 1965 onwards, it was no longer held on the same weekend as Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but three days before.
In 1993, Amaury Sport Organisation bought La Flèche Wallonne, three years after acquiring Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Consequently, the Ardennes Weekend was recreated, from 1993 to 1997.
Jan Storms and Rolf Wolfshohl won the Ardennes weekend while they have never won either the Flèche Wallonne or Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Palmares YearWinnerSecondThird1950 Raymond Impanis Prosper Depredomme Fausto Coppi1951 Ferdi Kübler Jean Robic Gino Bartali1952 Ferdi Kübler Jean Robic Raymond Impanis1953 Jan Storms Stan Ockers Alois De Hertog1954 Marcel Ernzer Ferdi Kübler Raymond Impanis1955 Stan Ockers Jean Brankart Jan Adriaensens1956 Richard Van Genechten André Vlayen Sante Ranucci1957 Frans Schoubben Joseph Planckaert Raymond Impanis1958 Alfred De Bruyne Raymond Impanis Pierre Everaert1959 Frans Schoubben Frans De Mulder Alfred De Bruyne1960 Albertus Geldermans Rik Van Looy Pierre Everaert1961 Rik Van Looy Armand Desmet Marcel Rohrbach1962 Rolf Wolfshohl Henri De Wolf Armand Desmet1963 Raymond Poulidor Pino Cerami Jan Janssen1964 Willy Bocklant Georges Van Coningsloo Vittorio Adorni1993 Maurizio Fondriest1994 Evgueni Berzin1995 Laurent Jalabert1996 Lance Armstrong1997 Laurent Jalabert
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