2026 Amstel Gold Race (World Tour),
The Netherlands
60th edition: Sunday, April 19, 2026
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Maastricht - Valkenburg 257.2 km, The Netherlands
The race is Remco Evenepoel's. Sirotti photo
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Weather at the finish city of Berg en Terblijt at 2:55 PM, local time: 14C (58F), occasional rain showers, with the wind from the north-northwest at 16 km/hr (10 mph).
The race: Ben Tulett (Visma | Lease a Bike) & Samuele Battistella (EF Education-EasyPost) did not start. Early on Manlio Moro (Movistar) abandoned.
Here's the organizer's Amstel Gold Race report:
Remco Evenepoel claimed victory in the 60th edition of the Amstel Gold Race. The Belgian prevailed in a two-man sprint against defending champion Mattias Skjelmose, while Benoît Cosnefroy won the sprint for third place.
A packed Market Square in Maastricht provided the backdrop for the start of the 60th edition of the Amstel Gold Race. It was also the final race for long-time race director Leo van Vliet, who steps down after thirty years. At 11:15 a.m., he waved the flag to start “his” Amstel Gold Race for the last time, sending the riders off towards Valkenburg with 33 climbs on the route.
The race passes through the town of Noorbeek, about 85 km into the race.
The early breakaway formed quickly, as nine riders went on the attack: Artz (Lotto Intermarché), Maciejuk (Movistar Team), Frigo (NSN Cycling Team), Barguil (Team Picnic PostNL), Azparren (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), Lopez (Caja Rural – Seguros RGA), Deweirdt (Team Flanders – Baloise), Retailleau (TotalEnergies) and Stockman (Unibet Rose Rockets). The leaders’ maximum advantage grew to around four minutes.
Up front, Frigo proved to be clearly the strongest. With several sharp accelerations, the Italian dropped his breakaway companions and went solo. With fifty kilometers remaining, his lead was down to one minute after Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe ramped up the pace in the peloton.
Grégoire (Groupama – FDJ United) opened the finale on the Kruisberg, joined by Evenepoel (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe), Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) and Vauquelin (INEOS Grenadiers). Following a crash involving Vauquelin and Jorgenson, the lead group was reduced to three riders, who then bridged across to Frigo.
The Italian was eventually forced to give way after an acceleration by Evenepoel, while Grégoire cracked shortly afterwards on the penultimate ascent of the Cauberg. Skjelmose and Evenepoel then started the final lap together. Grégoire was caught by a chasing group including Cosnefroy (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) and Schmid (Team Jayco AlUla), almost a minute behind.
Even on the final ascent of the Cauberg, Evenepoel was unable to drop Skjelmose, setting up a sprint finish between the two. Evenepoel launched powerfully and Skjelmose could not follow. The Belgian thus secured his first Amstel Gold Race victory, after finishing third on his debut last year. In the battle for third place, Cosnefroy came out on top.
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257.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.906 km/hr
| 1 | Remco Evenepoel | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 5hr 59min 40sec |
| 2 | Mattias Skjelmose | Lidl-Trek | @ 1sec |
| 3 | Benoît Cosnefroy | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | 1:59 |
| 4 | Romain Grégoire | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 5 | Emiel Verstrynge | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 6 | Mauro Schmid | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 7 | Mauri Vansevenant | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 8 | Albert Withen Philipsen | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 9 | Ewen Costiou | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 10 | Marco Frigo | NSN Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 11 | Alex Baudin | EF Education-EasyPost | 2:46 |
| 12 | Ion Izagirre | Cofidis | 2:53 |
| 13 | Dorian Godon | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:55 |
| 14 | Tibor Del Grosso | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 15 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 16 | Alex Aranburu | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 17 | Stefano Oldani | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 18 | Gal Glivar | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 19 | Davide Toneatti | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 20 | Alex Molenaar | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 21 | Mathieu Burgaudeau | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 22 | Jenno Berckmoes | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 23 | Fernando Barceló | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 24 | Clément Champoussin | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 25 | Marcel Camprubí | Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 26 | Andrea Vendrame | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 27 | Roger Adrià | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 28 | Quinn Simmons | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 29 | Georg Zimmermann | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 30 | Simone Velasco | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 31 | Valentin Madouas | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 32 | Brady Gilmore | NSN Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 33 | Quentin Pacher | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 34 | Jelle Johannink | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 35 | Lander Loockx | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 36 | Milan Lanhove | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 37 | Francesco Busatto | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 38 | Natnael Tesfazion | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 39 | Andreas Leknessund | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 40 | Dylan Teuns | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 41 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 42 | Senne Thonnon | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 43 | Antoine L'Hote | Decathlon CMA CGM Team | s.t. |
| 44 | Max Schachmann | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 45 | Diego Ulissi | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 46 | James Shaw | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
| 47 | Alexandre Delettre | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 48 | Adam Toupalik | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 49 | Felix Großschartner | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 50 | Kévin Vauquelin | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 51 | Søren Kragh Andersen | Lidl-Trek | 3:12 |
| 52 | Fabian Weiss | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 3:22 |
| 53 | Alessandro Covi | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 54 | Joris Delbove | Team TotalEnergies | 3:32 |
| 55 | Kevin Geniets | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 56 | Jack Haig | INEOS Grenadiers | 3:45 |
| 57 | Senna Remijn | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 58 | Bauke Mollema | Lidl-Trek | 3:49 |
| 59 | Dylan van Baarle | Soudal Quick-Step | 4:10 |
| 60 | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain Victorious | 4:22 |
| 61 | Alexander Kamp | Uno-X Mobility | 4:51 |
| 62 | Lukas Nerurkar | EF Education-EasyPost | 5:10 |
| 63 | Anders Foldager | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 64 | Krists Neilands | NSN Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 65 | Quinten Hermans | Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 66 | Vincent Van Hemelen | Team Flanders-Baloise | 7:36 |
| 67 | Fredrik Dversnes | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 68 | Luca Van Boven | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 69 | Toon Aerts | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 70 | Michiel Lambrecht | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 71 | Mathis Le Berre | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 72 | Eduard Prades | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 73 | Joan Bou | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 74 | Robin Donzé | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 7:39 |
| 75 | Attila Valter | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 76 | Lorenzo Germani | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 77 | Edoardo Zambanini | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 78 | Lorenzo Rota | Lotto-Intermarché | 7:43 |
| 79 | Pavel Sivakov | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 80 | Xandro Meurisse | Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 81 | Haimar Etxeberria | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 82 | Gianni Vermeersch | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 83 | Frank van den Broek | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 84 | Jordan Labrosse | Decathlon CMA CGM Team | s.t. |
| 85 | Axel Laurance | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 86 | Andreas Kron | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 87 | Davide De Pretto | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 88 | Brandon Rivera | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 89 | Jan Tratnik | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 90 | Ilan Van Wilder | Soudal Quick-Step | 8:25 |
| 91 | Rick Pluimers | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 8:56 |
| 92 | Elias Maris | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 93 | Bjoern Koerdt | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 94 | Matthew Dinham | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 95 | Frits Biesterbos | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 96 | Hugo Houle | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 97 | Anthon Charmig | Uno-X Mobility | 9:27 |
| 98 | Filip Maciejuk | Movistar Team | 10:21 |
| 99 | Floris Van Tricht | NSN Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 100 | Axel Zingle | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 101 | Emils Liepins | Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 102 | Filippo Fiorelli | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 103 | Tobias Bayer | Alpecin-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 104 | Pau Martí | NSN Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 105 | Jan Maas | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 106 | Gonzalo Serrano | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 107 | Abram Stockman | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 108 | Pau Miquel Delgado | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 109 | Paul Ourselin | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 110 | Enzo Paleni | Groupama-FDJ United | s.t. |
| 111 | Menno Huising | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 112 | Sandy Dujardin | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 113 | Fran Miholjevic | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 114 | Nicola Conci | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 115 | Sergio Meris | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 116 | Cedrik Bakke Christophersen | Unibet Rose Rockets | s.t. |
| 117 | Nico Denz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 118 | Tim van Dijke | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 119 | Jasha Sütterlin | Team Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 120 | Anders Halland Johannessen | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 121 | Raúl García | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 122 | Jacopo Mosca | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 123 | Filippo Baroncini | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 124 | Leander Van Hautegem | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 125 | Pavel Novak | Movistar Team | s.t. |
| 126 | Sam Maisonobe | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 127 | Bob Jungels | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 128 | Alexy Faure-Prost | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 129 | Anders Skaarseth | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 130 | Sjoerd Bax | Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 131 | Noa Isidore | Decathlon CMA CGM Team | s.t. |
| 132 | Vito Braet | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 133 | Huub Artz | Lotto-Intermarché | s.t. |
| 134 | Pepijn Reinderink | Soudal Quick-Step | 10:28 |
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2026 Amstel Gold Race Map
2026 Amstel Gold Race profile
2025 Amstel Gold Race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Remco Evenepoel before the race start.
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
The Ineos Grenadiers team waits for the race to start.
The NSN Cycling Team
American road champion Quinn Simmons
The start in Maastricht.
On the Cauberg climb in Valkenburg
Another shot of the Cauberg climb in Valkenburg
Remco Evenepoel & Mattias Skjelmose dash for the line.
Remco Evenepoel wins a big one. Second-place Mattias Skjelmose can be seen just behind him.
Benoît Cosnefroy wins the field sprint for third.
Second-place Mattias Skjelmose just after the race finished.
The podium, from left: Mattias Skjelmose (2nd), Remco Evenepoel (1st), & Benoît Cosnefroy (3rd)
2026 Amstel Gold Race winner Remco Evenepoel
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Start list with back numbers, April 18, 2026:
| Lidl-Trek | |
| 1 | Mattias Skjelmose |
| 2 | Søren Kragh Andersen |
| 3 | Bauke Mollema |
| 4 | Jacopo Mosca |
| 5 | Albert Withen Philipsen |
| 6 | Quinn Simmons |
| 7 | Otto Vergaerde |
| UAE Team Emirates-XRG | |
| 11 | Tim Wellens |
| 12 | Filippo Baroncini |
| 13 | Mikkel Bjerg |
| 14 | Benoît Cosnefroy |
| 15 | Luca Giaimi |
| 16 | Felix Grossschartner |
| 16 | Pavel Sivakov |
| Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | |
| 21 | Remco Evenepoel |
| 22 | Nico Denz |
| 23 | Haimar Etxeberria |
| 24 | Danny van Poppel |
| 25 | Jan Tratnik |
| 26 | Tim van Dijke |
| 27 | Gianni Vermeersch |
| Alpecin-Premier Tech | |
| 31 | Tibor Del Grosso |
| 32 | Tobias Bayer |
| 33 | Gal Glivar |
| 34 | Francesco Busatto |
| 35 | Hugo Houle |
| 36 | Senna Remijn |
| 37 | Emiel Verstrynge |
| Team Visma | Lease a Bike | |
| 41 | Christophe Laporte |
| 42 | Filippo Fiorelli |
| 43 | Per Strand Hagenes |
| 44 | Menno Huising |
| 45 | Matteo Jorgenson |
| 46 | Ben Tulett |
| 47 | Axel Zingle |
| Bahrain Victorious | |
| 51 | Pello Bilbao |
| 52 | Matej Mohoric |
| 53 | Fran Miholjevic |
| 54 | Pau Miquel Delgado |
| 55 | Attila Valter |
| 56 | Vlad Van Mechelen |
| 57 | Edoardo Zambanini |
| Decathlon CMA CGM Team | |
| 61 | Paul Lapeira |
| 62 | Stan Dewulf |
| 63 | Sander De Pestel |
| 64 | Noa Isidore |
| 65 | Antoine L'Hote |
| 66 | Jordan Labrosse |
| 67 | Oscar Chamberlain |
| EF Education-EasyPost | |
| 71 | Jardi Van Der Lee |
| 72 | Samuele Battistella |
| 73 | Alex Baudin |
| 74 | Mikkel Honore |
| 75 | Michael Leonard |
| 76 | Lukas Nerurkar |
| 77 | James Shaw |
| Groupama-FDJ United | |
| 81 | Romain Grégoire |
| 82 | Ewen Costiou |
| 83 | Kevin Geniets |
| 84 | Lorenzo Germani |
| 85 | Valentin Madouas |
| 86 | Quentin Pacher |
| 87 | Enzo Paleni |
| INEOS Grenadiers | |
| 91 | Kévin Vauquelin |
| 92 | Dorian Godon |
| 93 | Jack Haig |
| 94 | Bob Jungels |
| 95 | Axel Laurance |
| 96 | Brandon Rivera |
| 97 | Artem Shmidt |
| Lotto-Intermarché | |
| 101 | Toon Aerts |
| 102 | Huub Artz |
| 103 | Jenno Berckmoes |
| 104 | Vito Braet |
| 105 | Lorenzo Rota |
| 106 | Luca Van Boven |
| 107 | Georg Zimmermann |
| Movistar Team | |
| 111 | Roger Adrià |
| 112 | Raúl García |
| 113 | Filip Maciejuk |
| 114 | Manlio Moro |
| 115 | Gonzalo Serrano |
| 116 | Natnael Tesfazion |
| 117 | Pavel Novak |
| NSN Cycling Team | |
| 121 | Alexey Lutsenko |
| 122 | Pier-André Côté |
| 123 | Marco Frigo |
| 124 | Krists Neilands |
| 125 | Brady Gilmore |
| 126 | Floris Van Tricht |
| 127 | Pau Martí |
| Soudal Quick-Step | |
| 131 | Pascal Eenkhoorn |
| 132 | Andrea Raccagni Noviero |
| 133 | Pepijn Reinderink |
| 134 | Max Schachmann |
| 135 | Dylan van Baarle |
| 136 | Ilan Van Wilder |
| 137 | Mauri Vansevenant |
| Team Jayco-AlUla | |
| 141 | Mauro Schmid |
| 142 | Alessandro Covi |
| 143 | Davide De Pretto |
| 144 | Anders Foldager |
| 145 | Asbjørn Hellemose |
| 146 | Jasha Sütterlin |
| 147 | Andrea Vendrame |
| Team Picnic PostNL | |
| 151 | Warren Barguil |
| 152 | Frits Biesterbos |
| 153 | Matthew Dinham |
| 154 | Alexy Faure-Prost |
| 155 | Bjoern Koerdt |
| 156 | Oliver Peace |
| 157 | Frank van den Broek |
| Uno-X Mobility | |
| 161 | Andreas Kron |
| 162 | Anthon Charmig |
| 163 | Fredrik Dversnes |
| 164 | Anders Halland Johannessen |
| 165 | Alexander Kamp |
| 166 | Andreas Leknessund |
| 167 | Anders Skaarseth |
| XDS Astana Team | |
| 171 | Diego Ulissi |
| 172 | Clément Champoussin |
| 173 | Nicola Conci |
| 174 | Anton Kuzmin |
| 175 | Davide Toneatti |
| 176 | Darren van Bekkum |
| 177 | Simone Velasco |
| Cofidis | |
| 181 | Alex Aranburu |
| 182 | Bryan Coquard |
| 183 | Ion Izagirre |
| 184 | Jan Maas |
| 185 | Sam Maisonobe |
| 186 | Paul Ourselin |
| 187 | Dylan Teuns |
| Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | |
| 191 | Quinten Hermans |
| 192 | Xabier Azparren |
| 193 | Sjoerd Bax |
| 194 | Marcel Camprubí |
| 195 | Emils Liepins |
| 196 | Xandro Meurisse |
| 197 | Nicolò Parisini |
| Tudor Pro Cycling Team | |
| 201 | Julian Alaphilippe |
| 202 | Jacob Eriksson |
| 203 | Marc Hirschi |
| 204 | Rick Pluimers |
| 205 | Joel Suter |
| 206 | Fabian Weiss |
| 207 | Robin Donzé |
| Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| 211 | Fernando Barceló |
| 212 | Joan Bou |
| 213 | Joseba Lopez |
| 214 | Alex Molenaar |
| 215 | Joel Nicolau |
| 216 | Stefano Oldani |
| 217 | Eduard Prades |
| Team Flanders-Baloise | |
| 221 | Siebe Deweirdt |
| 222 | Michiel Lambrecht |
| 223 | Milan Lanhove |
| 224 | Elias Maris |
| 225 | Senne Thonnon |
| 226 | Vincent Van Hemelen |
| 227 | Leander Van Hautegem |
| Team TotalEnergies | |
| 231 | Sandy Dujardin |
| 232 | Thomas Bonnet |
| 233 | Joris Delbove |
| 234 | Alexandre Delettre |
| 235 | Mathieu Burgaudeau |
| 236 | Mathis Le Berre |
| 237 | Valentin Retailleau |
| Unibet Rose Rockets | |
| 241 | Cedrik Bakke Christophersen |
| 242 | Jelle Johannink |
| 243 | Lander Loockx |
| 244 | Sergio Meris |
| 245 | Abram Stockman |
| 246 | Adam Toupalik |
| 247 | Clément Venturini |