Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

Grand Prix/Grote Prijs Eddy Merckx

Poster to the 1993 edition
Race details
Date	Late-August
Region	Brussels, Belgium
English name	Grand Prize Eddy Merckx
Local name(s)	Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (in French), Grote Prijs Eddy Merckx (in Dutch)
Discipline	Road race
Type	Individual Time Trial Team Time Trial
History
First edition	1980 (1980)
Editions	25
Final edition	2004
First winner	Knut Knudsen
Most wins	Knut Knudsen Eric Vanderaerden Chris Boardman Abraham Olano Marc Wauters Erik Dekker (2 wins)
Final winner	Thomas Dekker Koen de Kort

Grand Prix Eddy Merckx was a cycle race around Brussels, where Eddy Merckx was born. It was held between 1980 and 2004, disappearing after the creation of the UCI ProTour in 2005. The race was initially an individual time trial, becoming a Team time trial of two riders in 1998. It usually had a duration of 60-70 km, with the 2003 being the shortest at 26 km because of a nearby fire.

With the introduction of the UCI ProTour in 2005, there were plans to merge the race with Paris–Brussels. This merger was eventually never completed, by which the race disappeared from the calendar.^[1]