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1989 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ511892 ↗
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The 1989 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 75th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 16 April 1989. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the PDM team.

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“1989 Liège–Bastogne–Liège” enters the record as cycling race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Liège, Bastogne and cycling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“1989 Liège–Bastogne–Liège” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Liège, Bastogne and cycling provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “1989 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.