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1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ28147656 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 48th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 6 May 1962. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Jef Planckaert of the Flandria team.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège” is cycling race. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Liège, Bastogne and cycling, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Liège, Bastogne and cycling is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.