Hel van het Mergelland

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Hel van het Mergelland

Race details
Date	Early April
Region	Limburg, Netherlands
Local name(s)	Hel van het Mergelland (Dutch)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	One-day race
History
First edition	1973
Editions	35 (as of 2008)
First winner	Jan Spijker
Most recent	Tony Martin

Hel van het Mergelland is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Limburg, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

[edit] Winners

Rider Team 1973 Jan Spijker 1974 Toine van de Bunder 1975 Wil van Helvoirt 1976 Mathieu Dohmen 1977 Toine van de Bunder 1978 Toine van de Bunder 1979 Herman Snoeyink 1980 Pim Bosch 1981 René Koppert 1982 Peter Hofland 1983 Jan Peels 1984 Chris Koppert 1985 Stephan Räkers 1986 Marc van Orsouw 1987 Tom Cordes 1988 Gerard Möhlmann 1989 Willem-Jan van Loenhout 1990 Raymond Meijs

Rider Team 1991 Rob Compas 1992 Martin van Steen 1993 Erwin Thijs Collstrop 1994 John van den Akker Collstrop 1995 Max van Heeswijk Motorola 1996 Lucien de Louw Foreldorado Golff 1997 Raymond Meijs Foreldorado Golff 1998 Raymond Meijs Team Gerolsteiner 1999 Raymond Meijs Team Cologne 2000 Bert Grabsch Team Cologne 2001 No race 2002 Corey Sweet Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 2003 Wim van Huffel Vlaanderen T-Interim 2004 Allan Johanson BankGiroLoterij 2005 Nico Sijmens Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2006 Mikhaylo Khalilov Team LPR 2007 Nico Sijmens Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 2008 Tony Martin Team High Road

[edit] External links

• Official Website (Dutch)