2011 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

{{Infobox cycling race report

| name = 2011 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

| image = 2011_Liège–Bastogne–Liège_poster.png

| image_caption =

| series = 2011 UCI World Tour

| race_no = 12 of 27

| date = 24 April 2011

| stages = 1

| distance = 255.5

| unit = km

| time = 6h 13' 18"

| speed = 41.066

| first = Philippe Gilbert

| first_nat = Belgium

| first_natvar =

| first_team = {{UCI team code|OLO|2011}}

| second = Fränk Schleck

| second_nat = Luxembourg

| second_natvar =

| second_team = {{UCI team code|LEO|2011}}

| third = Andy Schleck

| third_nat = Luxembourg

| third_natvar =

| third_team = {{UCI team code|LEO|2011}}

| previous = 2010

| next = 2012

|image_size=230}}

The 2011 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 97th running of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 24 April 2011 over a distance of {{convert|255.5|km|1|abbr=off}}, starting in Liège and finishing in Ans, via Bastogne in the Ardennes region of Belgium. It was the twelfth race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.

File:Liège-Bastogne-Liège_2011_map.png

Philippe Gilbert of {{UCI team code|OLO|2011}} became only the second rider to win all three Ardennes classics,{{cite news|url=http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24042011/58/gilbert-wins-liege-bastogne-liege.html|title=Gilbert wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege|work=Yahoo! Eurosport|publisher=TF1 Group|first=Michael|last=FitzGerald|date=24 April 2011|access-date=24 April 2011}} after {{UCI team code|GST|2004}} rider Davide Rebellin first did so in 2004, by winning a three-man sprint to complete a run of four victories within ten days with another victory in Brabantse Pijl to go with the Ardennes classics.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/gilbert-goes-4-for-4-with-victory-in-liege-bastogne-liege-classic-schlecks-are-second-third/2011/04/24/AFtLvdbE_story.html|title=Gilbert goes 4-for-4 with victory in Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic; Schlecks are second, third|work=The Washington Post|agency=Associated Press|date=24 April 2011|access-date=24 April 2011}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Gilbert outsprinted both Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck of {{UCI team code|LEO|2011}} on the final straight – to take Belgium's first victory in the race since Frank Vandenbroucke in 1999 – after the trio had escaped along with {{UCI team code|BMC|2011}}'s Greg Van Avermaet with around {{convert|20|km|1|abbr=off}} remaining. Van Avermaet was dropped, and eventually finished seventh behind the Schlecks and trio that had usurped him within the closing kilometres, Roman Kreuziger of {{UCI team code|AST|2011}}, Rigoberto Urán of {{UCI team code|SKY|2011}} and Chris Anker Sørensen of {{UCI team code|SBS|2011}}.