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1998 Gent - Wevelgem,
Belgium
Ghent - Wevelgem (English), Gand - Wevelgem (French)
60th edition: April 8, 1998
Gent - Wevelgem podium history | 1997 edition | 1999 edition
208 km / 40.78 km/hr
190 starters, 141 classified finishers
Frank Vandenbroucke winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1999
Complete Results:
| 1 | Frank Vandenbroucke (Mapei-Bricobi) | 5hr 6min |
| 2 | Lars Michaelsen (TVM-Farm Frites) | @ 7sec |
| 3 | Nico Mattan (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 4 | Andrei Tchmil (Lotto-Mobistar) | @ 30sec |
| 5 | Laurent Desbiens (Cofidis) | s.t. |
| 6 | Erik Zabel (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | s.t. |
| 7 | Henk Vogels (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 8 | Peter Van Petegem (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 9 | Jeroen Blijlevens (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 10 | Fabio Baldato (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 11 | Scott Sunderland (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 12 | Enrico Cassani (Polti) | s.t. |
| 13 | Gabriele Balducci (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 14 | Gianluca Bortolami (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 15 | Cristian Salvato (Polti) | s.t. |
| 16 | Frédéric Guesdon (La Française des Jeux) | s.t. |
| 17 | Rolf Sørensen (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 18 | Frédéric Moncassin (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 19 | Carlo Bomans (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 20 | Andrea Tafi (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 21 | Viatcheslav Ekimov (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 22 | Marco Serpellini (Brescialat-Liquigas) | s.t. |
| 23 | Dario Pieri (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 24 | Stuart O'Grady (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 25 | Bruno Boscardin (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 26 | Mario Cipollini (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 27 | Roberto Petito (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 28 | Laurent Lefevre (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 29 | Johan Museeuw (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 30 | Franco Ballerini (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 31 | Jan Schaffrath (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | s.t. |
| 32 | Giovanni Lombardi (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | @ 1min 0sec |
| 33 | Mario Scirea (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 34 | Hans De Meester (Tonissteiner-Colnago) | @ 4min 50sec |
| 35 | Hendrik Van Dyck (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 36 | Johan Capiot (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 37 | Danilo Hondo (Agro) | s.t. |
| 38 | Stefano Casagrande (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 39 | Eddy Mazzoleni (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 40 | Massimiliano Mori (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 41 | Christian Vandevelde (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 42 | Karel Vereecke (Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx) | s.t. |
| 43 | Riccardo Ferrari (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 44 | Michele Rezzani (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 45 | Oleg Pankov (Ipso-Euroclean) | s.t. |
| 46 | Leonardo Guidi (Polti) | s.t. |
| 47 | Magnus Bäckstedt (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 48 | Steffen Wesemann (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | s.t. |
| 49 | Frank Høj (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 50 | Arnaud Pretot (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 51 | Bert Dietz (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | s.t. |
| 52 | Cyril Bos (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 53 | Ole Sigurd Simensen (Agro) | s.t. |
| 54 | Thierry Marichal (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 55 | Frankie Andreu (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 56 | Hans De Clercq (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 57 | Cristian Moreni (Brescialat-Liquigas) | s.t. |
| 58 | Steven De Jongh (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 59 | Carlo Marino Bianchi (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 60 | Dirk Baldinger (Deutsche Telekom-ARD) | s.t. |
| 61 | André Korff (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 62 | Marc Wauters (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 63 | Fabio Roscioli (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 64 | Jaime Javier Hernandez Bertran (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 65 | Steffen Blochwitz (Agro) | s.t. |
| 66 | Karl Pauwels (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 67 | Wilfried Peeters (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 68 | Sven Teutenberg (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 69 | George Hincapie (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 70 | Bart Leysen (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 71 | Nicolas Vogondy (La Française des Jeux) | s.t. |
| 72 | Ellis Rastelli (Brescialat-Liquigas) | s.t. |
| 73 | Diego Ferrari (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 74 | Robbie McEwen (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 75 | Christophe Bassons (Festina-Lotus) | s.t. |
| 76 | Federico Colonna (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 77 | Paolo Fornaciari (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 78 | Pavel Padrnos (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 79 | Michel Van Haecke (Ipso-Euroclean) | s.t. |
| 80 | Bruno Cenghialta (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 81 | Nicolas Jalabert (Cofidis) | s.t. |
| 82 | Chris Peers (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 83 | Andrea Brognara (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 84 | Eddy Seigneur (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | s.t. |
| 85 | Ludo Dierckxsens (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 86 | Tom Steels (Mapei-Bricobi) | s.t. |
| 87 | Fabio Sacchi (Polti) | s.t. |
| 88 | Franck Perque (La Française des Jeux) | s.t. |
| 89 | Christophe Mengin (La Française des Jeux) | s.t. |
| 90 | Brian Holm Sørensen (Acceptcard) | s.t. |
| 91 | Mikael-Holst Kyneb (Team Home Jack & Jones) | s.t. |
| 92 | Wim Feys (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 93 | Juri Silovs (Team Home Jack & Jones) | s.t. |
| 94 | Simone Bertoletti (Brescialat-Liquigas) | s.t. |
| 95 | Peter Farazijn (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 96 | Fabrizio Guidi (Polti) | s.t. |
| 97 | Mirko Crepaldi (Polti) | s.t. |
| 98 | Marco Milesi (Brescialat-Liquigas) | s.t. |
| 99 | Mirko Rossato (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 100 | Biagio Conte (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 101 | Davide Casarotto (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 102 | Servais Knaven (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 103 | Aart Vierhouten (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 104 | Geert Van Bondt (TVM-Farm Frites) | s.t. |
| 105 | Mario Aerts (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 106 | Ludwig Willems (Lotto-Mobistar) | s.t. |
| 107 | Eros Poli (GAN-Crédit Agricole) | @ 11min 0sec |
| 108 | Jan Hordijk (Tonissteiner-Colnago) | s.t. |
| 109 | Wilfried Cretskens (Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx) | s.t. |
| 110 | Grzegorz Gwiazdowski (Cofidis) | s.t. |
| 111 | Anton Villatoro (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 112 | Tim Lenaers (Collstrop-Zeno Protect) | s.t. |
| 113 | Alessio Bongioni (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 114 | Iñaki Barrenechea Giraldez (Tonissteiner-Colnago) | s.t. |
| 115 | Michael Rich (Saeco) | s.t. |
| 116 | Olaf Pollack (Agro) | s.t. |
| 117 | Bart Brentjens (Home Market-Ville de Charleroi) | s.t. |
| 118 | Francis Moreau (Cofidis) | s.t. |
| 119 | Christophe Capelle (Cofidis) | s.t. |
| 120 | Eric De Clercq (Collstrop-Zeno Protect) | s.t. |
| 121 | Danny Daelman (Collstrop-Zeno Protect) | s.t. |
| 122 | Martin Müller (Agro) | s.t. |
| 123 | Christian Charriere (Riso Scotti) | s.t. |
| 124 | Franky De Buyst (Tonissteiner-Colnago) | s.t. |
| 125 | Steven Van Malderghem (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 126 | Koen Beeckman (Ipso-Euroclean) | s.t. |
| 127 | Peter Verbeken (Ipso-Euroclean) | s.t. |
| 128 | Gerrit Glomser (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 129 | Alessandro Petacchi (Scrigno-Gaerne) | s.t. |
| 130 | Christ Hendryckx (Collstrop-Zeno Protect) | s.t. |
| 131 | Joan Llaneras Rosello (US Postal Service) | s.t. |
| 132 | Bert Hiemstra (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 133 | Max Van Heeswijk (Rabobank) | s.t. |
| 134 | Jürgen Vermeersch (Palmans-Ideal) | s.t. |
| 135 | Nico Renders (Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx) | s.t. |
| 136 | Tom Desmet (Collstrop-Zeno Protect) | s.t. |
| 137 | Jarno Vanfrachem (Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx) | s.t. |
| 138 | Sébastien Demarbaix (Home Market-Ville de Charleroi) | s.t. |
| 139 | Anthony Rokia (Polti) | s.t. |
| 140 | Samuele Schiavina (Asics-CGA) | s.t. |
| 141 | Brian Dalgaard Jensen (Spar-RDM) | s.t. |