2023 Dwars Door Vlaanderen (WorldTour), Belgium

A travers la Flandre - Across Flanders
77th edition: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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Roeselare - Waregem, 183.5 km

A perfectly timed late attack and the horsepower to make it stick give Christophe Laporte his second win this week after winning Gent-Wevelgem.

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Weather at the finish city of Waregem at 1:15 PM, local time: 14C (56F), cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 21 km/hr (11 mph). There is a 4% chance of rain during the afternoon.

The race: Four riders did not start: Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost), Kevin Vanmaerke (Team DSM), Andrii Ponomar (Arkéa-Samsic) & Geoffrey Soupe (TotalEnergies).

Here's the organizer's race summary:

Three days after Gent-Wevelgem, it was another win for Christophe Laporte. After attacking in the final kilometres, the Frenchman took the win in Dwars door Vlaanderen solo. He took the win ahead of Lazkano and Powless.

No rain in Roeselare at the start of the 77th edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen. 183.5 km were on the programme. After about 20 km of racing, the early breakaway was a fact. Gidich (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Lazkano (Movistar Team), Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), Vanhoof (Team Flanders-Baloise), Heinschke (Team DSM) and Kristoff (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) got away.

The peloton rolls out from Roeselare.

The riders reeled off a particularly fast first hour of racing. With 47 kilometres covered in the first hour, the breakaway riders' lead also quickly grew to 3-4 minutes. At the top of the first climb of Côte de Trieu, it was Trek-Segafredo that set the pace in the peloton. That acceleration meant the breakaway also saw its lead dwindle and the peloton broke into pieces.

The succession of hills and cobbled sections meant that first Zukowsky and Gidich had to leave the role at the front. Then, on the Kanarieberg, things also went too fast for Heinschke and Vanhoof. In the peloton, Benoot's (Jumbo-Visma) moment had come. He accelerated and was joined by Hermans (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Laporte (Jumbo-Visma).

At the front, Vanhoof and Heinschke were able to rejoin Kristoff and Lazkano. In the background, it was Benoot who accelerated a second time on the Côte de Trieu. The new chasing group? Benoot and Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Powless (EF Educsation - Easypost), Küng and Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Narvaez (INEOS Grenadiers) and Honoré (EF Education-Easypost). The lead of the breakaway riders, where Vanhoof and Heinschke meanwhile had to let go again, dwindled to under half a minute.

The peloton was not completely beaten in the full finale either. At 10 km from the finish, the leading duo, the chasers and the peloton were within half a minute. With about 6 km to go, at the final passage over Herlegemstraat, the chasers joined Kristoff and Lazkano. An immediate attack followed at the front, as the peloton was not far.

At 4km from the finish, it was Laporte who went full on the attack and went solo in search of the win in Waregem. Victory was within reach and the Frenchman rounded off his attack with a strong solo. In the closing kilometres, it was Powless and Lazkano who accelerated in turn. Lazkano eventually took second place after a full day on the attack, ahead of Powless and with the sprinting peloton in his wheel.

It was Laporte's second classic win in just three days, as the Frenchman had also previously triumphed in Gent-Wevelgem.

Complete results:

Photos

175 back numbers assigned, 171 starters, 4 non-starters, 29 abandons, 142 classified finishers.

183.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.696 km/hr

1	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	4hr 6min 20sec
2	Oier Lazkano	Movistar	@ 15sec
3	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
4	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
5	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
6	Arnaud De Lie	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
7	Davide Ballerini	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
8	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
10	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	Axel Zingle	Cofidis	s.t.
13	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
14	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
15	John Degenkolb	Team DSM	s.t.
16	Dries Van Gestel	TotalEnergies	s.t.
17	Matteo Trentin	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
18	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
19	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Michael Matthews	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
21	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
22	Mikkel Honore	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
23	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
24	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
25	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
26	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
27	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X	s.t.
28	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
29	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
30	Quinten Hermans	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:31
31	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
32	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:58
33	Edward Theuns	Trek-Segafredo	1:03
34	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	1:08
35	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Lotto Dstny	1:16
36	Kelland O'Brien	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
37	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
38	Ward Vanhoof	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
39	Leon Heinschke	Team DSM	1:19
40	Frederik Frison	Lotto Dstny	2:55
41	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
42	Tim Wellens	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
43	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X	3:32
44	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
45	Alex Kirsch	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
46	Mathias Norsgaard	Movistar	s.t.
47	Alessandro Fedeli	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
48	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
49	Tom Van Asbroeck	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
50	Lewis Askey	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
51	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
52	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Lindsay De Vylder	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
54	Stan Van Tricht	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
55	Dusan Rajovic	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
56	Martin Urianstad Bugge	Uno-X	s.t.
57	Sean Flynn	Team DSM	s.t.
58	Dries De Bondt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
59	Mathias Vacek	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
60	Filippo Colombo	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Sandy Dujardin	TotalEnergies	s.t.
62	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
63	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
64	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
65	Taco Van Der Hoorn	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
66	Julian Mertens	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
67	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	s.t.
68	Omer Goldstein	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
69	Luca Van Boven	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
70	Filip Maciejuk	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
71	Alex Colman	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
72	Sjoerd Bax	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
73	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
74	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
75	Jonas Koch	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
76	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
77	Julius Van Den Berg	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
78	Sébastien Grignard	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
79	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
80	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
81	Luke Durbridge	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
82	Louis Bendixen	Uno-X	3:38
83	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
84	Oliver Naesen	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
85	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
86	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
87	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
88	Jake Stewart	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
89	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
90	Damien Touzé	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
91	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
92	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
93	Baptiste Planckaert	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
94	Tosh Van Der Sande	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
95	Daniel Mclay	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
96	Thomas Scully	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
97	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	6:19
98	Max Walscheid	Cofidis	7:18
99	Gleb Syritsa	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
100	Yevgeniy Fedorov	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
101	Louis Blouwe	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
102	Jannik Steimle	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
103	Alexis Renard	Cofidis	s.t.
104	Jenthe Biermans	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
105	Cériel Desal	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
106	Gilles De Wilde	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
107	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
108	Jack Bauer	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
109	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
110	William Blume Levy	Uno-X	s.t.
111	Kamil Malecki	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
112	Cédric Beullens	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
113	Sam Welsford	Team DSM	s.t.
114	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
115	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
116	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
117	Patrick Gamper	BORA-hansgrohe	7:24
118	Daan Hoole	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
119	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
120	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
121	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
122	Tim Van Dijke	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
123	David Dekker	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
124	Jordi Meeus	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
125	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
126	Piet Allegaert	Cofidis	s.t.
127	Tuur Dens	Team Flanders-Baloise	s.t.
128	Wesley Kreder	Cofidis	s.t.
129	Vinicius Rangel	Movistar	s.t.
130	Ivan Romeo	Movistar	s.t.
131	Ludovic Robeet	Bingoal-WB	s.t.
132	Noah Vandenbranden	Team Flanders-Baloise	7:28
133	Fabio Van Den Bossche	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
134	Thomas Bonnet	TotalEnergies	s.t.
135	Emilien Jeannière	TotalEnergies	s.t.
136	Valentin Retailleau	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
137	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
138	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	s.t.
139	Matteo Moschetti	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
140	Luca Mozzato	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
141	Nicolò Parisini	Q36.5 Pro Cycling	s.t.
142	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.

 

Course map & profile:

2023 Dwars door Vlaanderen map & profile

2023 Dwars Door Vlaanderen photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

The opening ceremonies. Here's racing's current dominant team, Jumbo-Visma.

Riding on the cobbles of Flanders

Alexander Kristoff leads a small break.

Bora-hansgrohe's Nils Politt. He's currently the German road champion

Movistar rider Fernando Gaviria

John Degenkolb & Davide Ballerini

Magnus Sheffield

Ineos rider Filippo Ganna

This should be Neilson Powless

Marco Haller

Mikkel Frolich Honore

Ag2r riders Greg van Avermaet & Oliver Naesen

Mikkel Bjerg

Caleb Ewan leads a group.

Christophe Laporte can sit up and enjoy his well-earned win.

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Start list with back numbers: March 28, 2023

175 numbers assigned.

	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK
DS	Frederik Willems
1	Jasper Philipsen
2	Quinten Hermans
3	Dries De Bondt
4	Edward Planckaert
5	Robbe Ghys
6	Ramon Sinkeldam
7	Fabio Van Den Bossche
	AG2R CITROËN TEAM
DS	Nicolas Guille
11	Greg Van Avermaet
12	Pierre Gautherat
13	Lawrence Naesen
14	Oliver Naesen
15	Damien Touzé
16	Valentin Retailleau
17	Stan Dewulf
	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM
DS	Stafano Zanini
21	Igor Chzhan
22	Yevgeniy Gidich
23	Yevgeniy Fedorov
24	Dmitriy Gruzdev
25	Nurbergen Nurlykhassym
26	Martin Laas
27	Gleb Syritsa
	BORA-HANSGROHE
DS	Jean-Pierre Heynderickx
31	Nils Politt
32	Shane Archbold
33	Patrick Gamper
34	Marco Haller
35	Jonas Koch
36	Danny Van Poppel
37	Jordi Meeus
	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
DS	Mickel Golas
41	Andrea Pasqualon
42	Matevz Govekar
43	Filip Maciejuk
44	Kamil Gradek
45	Dusan Rajovic
46	Cameron Scott
47	Fred Wright
	UAE TEAM EMIRATES
DS	Marco Marcato
51	Pascal Ackermann
52	Sjoerd Bax
53	Mikkel Bjerg
54	Ryan Gibbons
55	Vegard Stake Laengen
56	Matteo Trentin
57	Tim Wellens
	JUMBO-VISMA
DS	Arthur Van Dongen
61	Edoardo Affini
62	Tiesj Benoot
63	Olav Kooij
64	Timo Roosen
65	Tosh Van Der Sande
66	Tim Van Dijke
67	Christophe Laporte
	INEOS GRENADIERS
DS	Ian Stannard
71	Tom Pidcock
72	Kim Heiduk
73	Jhonnatan Narvaez
74	Filippo Ganna
75	Ben Turner
76	Magnus Sheffield
77	Connor Swift
	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP
DS	Wilfried Peeters
81	Julian Alaphilippe
82	Davide Ballerini
83	Jannik Steimle
84	Bert Van Lerberghe
85	Tim Merlier
86	Casper Pedersen
87	Stan Van Tricht
	GROUPAMA-FDJ
DS	Frédéric Guesdon
91	Stefan Küng
92	Lewis Askey
93	Kevin Geniets
94	Olivier Le Gac
95	Fabian Lienhard
96	Valentin Madouas
97	Jake Stewart
	TREK-SEGAFREDO
DS	Steven De Jongh
101	Mads Pedersen
102	Emils Liepins
103	Mathias Vacek
104	Daan Hoole
105	Alex Kirsch
106	Jasper Stuyven
107	Edward Theuns
	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST
DS	Sebastian Langeveld
111	Alberto Bettiol
112	Stefan Bissegger
113	Thomas Scully
114	Mikkel Honore
115	Jonas Rutsch
116	Neilson Powless
117	Julius Van Den Berg
	TEAM JAYCO-ALULA
DS	Mathew Hayman
121	Michael Matthews
122	Blake Quick
123	Luka Mezgec
124	Kelland O'Brien
125	Zdenek Stybar
126	Luke Durbridge
127	Elmar Reinders
	MOVISTAR TEAM
DS	José Vicente Garcia Acosta
131	Fernando Gaviria
132	Vinicius Rangel
133	Mathias Norsgaard
134	Juri Hollmann
135	Oier Lazkano
136	Lluis Mas
137	Ivan Romeo
	TEAM DSM
DS	Pim Ligthart
141	John Degenkolb
142	Pavel Bittner
143	Nils Eekhoff
144	Leon Heinschke
145	Sam Welsford
146	Sean Flynn
147	Kevin Vermaerke
	COFIDIS
DS	Alain Deloeuil
151	Piet Allegaert
152	Simone Consonni
153	Wesley Kreder
154	Christophe Noppe
155	Axel Zingle
156	Alexis Renard
157	Max Walscheid
	TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC
DS	Sebastien Hinault
161	Jenthe Biermans
162	David Dekker
163	Kevin Ledanois
164	Matis Louvel
165	Daniel Mclay
166	Luca Mozzato
167	Andrii Ponomar
	INTERMARCHÉ-CIRCUS-WANTY
DS	Steven De Neef
171	Aimé De Gendt
172	Julius Johansen
173	Hugo Page
174	Baptiste Planckaert
175	Taco Van Der Hoorn
176	Boy Van Poppel
177	Loic Vliegen
	LOTTO DSTNY
Ds	Nikolas Maes
181	Arnaud De Lie
182	Cédric Beullens
183	Pascal Eenkhoorn
184	Jasper De Buyst
185	Caleb Ewan
186	Frederik Frison
187	Sébastien Grignard
	ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH
DS	Dirk Demol
191	Sep Vanmarcke
192	Hugo Houle
193	Krists Neilands
194	Guillaume Boivin
195	Jens Reynders
196	Tom Van Asbroeck
197	Omer Goldstein
	UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM
Ds	Gino Van Oudenhove
201	Alexander Kristoff
202	Louis Bendixen
203	Kristoffer Halvorsen
204	William Blume Levy
205	Martin Urianstad Bugge
206	Rasmus Tiller
207	Søren Wærenskjold
	TOTALENERGIES
DS	Dominique Arnould
211	Edvald Boasson-Hagen
212	Dries Van Gestel
213	Thomas Bonnet
214	Sandy Dujardin
215	Emilien Jeannière
216	Geoffrey Soupe
217	Anthony Turgis
	BINGOAL-WB
DS	Jean-Denis Vandenbroucke
221	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
222	Cériel Desal
223	Louis Blouwe
224	Julian Mertens
225	Ludovic Robeet
226	Luca Van Boven
227	Dorian De Maeght
	Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM
DS	Aart Vierhouten
231	Jack Bauer
232	Filippo Colombo
233	Kamil Malecki
234	Alessandro Fedeli
235	Matteo Moschetti
236	Nicolò Parisini
237	Nickolas Zukowsky
	TEAM FLANDERS-BALOISE
DS	Walter Planckaert
241	Alex Colman
242	Lindsay De Vylder
243	Tuur Dens
244	Gilles De Wilde
245	Noah Vandenbranden
246	Vincent Van Hemelen
247	Ward Vanhoof