E3 Saxo Bank Classic podium history | 2023 edition | Course map & profile | Start list
Harelbeke - Harelbeke, 207.6 km.
After a solo of more than 43 kilometers Mathieu van der Poel comes in 91 seconds ahead of his nearest chaser.
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Weather at the start/finish city of Harelbeke at 12:40 PM, local time: 12C (54F), cloudy, with the wind from the west at 19 km/hr (12 mph). There is a 60% chance of rain. In fact, it did rain on the peloton.
The race: Here's the race report from sixth-place Jhonnatan Narvaez's Team INEOS Grenadiers.
Jhonatan Narvaez battled to a strong sixth place in the E3 Saxo Classic in a day that saw the Ecuadorian active at the head of the race.
Luke Rowe was an unfortunate victim to an early crash, abandoning the race in the early stages. Good positioning work by Elia Viviani, Ben Swift, and Connor Swift, saw Ben Turner and Narvaez in the front group after an early selection on the Taainenberg.
The last 80 kilometres were punctuated by multiple attacks, with Jhonny following key moves by riders such as Wout Van Aert (Visma - Lease-a-Bike). Onto the infamous Paterberg and the Ecuadorian would go solo to try to catch the day’s eventual winner Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin - Deceuninck), before falling back into the chasing group ahead of the Oude Kwaermont.
The fast run to the line saw Narvaez in a select chase group, where he would sprint to sixth.
The cobbled racing continues on Sunday, with Gent-Wevelgem sure to present another exciting day of action.
Complete Results:
207.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.541 km/hr
1 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 4hr 39min 28sec |
2 | Jasper Stuyven | Lidl-Trek | @ 1min 31sec |
3 | Wout van Aert | Visma | Lease a Bike | 1:34 |
4 | Tim Wellens | UAE Team Emirates | 1:48 |
5 | Matteo Jorgenson | Visma | Lease a Bike | 1:50 |
6 | Jhonnatan Narvaez | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:52 |
7 | Nils Politt | UAE Team Emirates | 2:48 |
8 | Toms Skujins | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
9 | Vincenzo Albanese | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
10 | Alex Kirsch | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
11 | Mads Pedersen | Lidl-Trek | 2:54 |
12 | Jonas Abrahamsen | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
13 | Brent Van Moer | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
14 | Oier Lazkano | Movistar | s.t. |
15 | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
16 | Stefan Küng | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
17 | Krists Neilands | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
18 | Sander De Pestel | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | 2:58 |
19 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Wanty | 3:07 |
20 | Gleb Brussenskiy | Astana Qazaqstan | 3:14 |
21 | Fred Wright | Bahrain Victorious | 3:45 |
22 | Luca Mozzato | Arkea-B&B Hotels | 4:15 |
23 | Riley Sheehan | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
24 | Matteo Trentin | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
25 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
26 | Oliver Naesen | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
27 | Marco Haller | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
28 | Markus Hoelgaard | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
29 | Yves Lampaert | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
30 | Nicolò Parisini | Q36.5 Pro Cycling | s.t. |
31 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
32 | Marius Mayrhofer | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
33 | Jan Tratnik | Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
34 | Johan Jacobs | Movistar | s.t. |
35 | Vito Braet | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
36 | Magnus Sheffield | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
37 | Søren Kragh Andersen | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
38 | Rasmus Tiller | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
39 | Lewis Askey | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
40 | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
41 | Victor Campenaerts | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
42 | Connor Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
43 | Mathis Le Berre | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
44 | Valentin Madouas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
45 | Lorenzo Milesi | Movistar | s.t. |
46 | Nico Denz | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
47 | Jannik Steimle | Q36.5 Pro Cycling | s.t. |
48 | Remi Cavagna | Movistar | s.t. |
49 | Emil Herzog | Bora-hansgrohe | 4:21 |
50 | Julian Alaphilippe | Soudal Quick-Step | 4:24 |
51 | Niklas Märkl | dsm-firmenich-PostNL | 5:35 |
52 | Arnaud De Lie | Lotto Dstny | 6:04 |
53 | Gleb Syritsa | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
54 | Alexis Renard | Cofidis | s.t. |
55 | Max Walscheid | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
56 | Andrea Pasqualon | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
57 | Jonas Rutsch | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
58 | Cériel Desal | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
59 | Fabio Christen | Q36.5 Pro Cycling | s.t. |
60 | Dries De Bondt | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
61 | William Blume Levy | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
62 | Kamil Malecki | Q36.5 Pro Cycling | s.t. |
63 | Georg Zimmermann | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
64 | Nadav Raisberg | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
65 | Yevgeniy Fedorov | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
66 | Dries De Pooter | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
67 | Bastien Tronchon | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
68 | Mathias Vacek | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
69 | Aaron Van Der Beken | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
70 | Rick Pluimers | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
71 | Kelland O'Brien | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
72 | Luca Van Boven | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
73 | Luke Durbridge | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
74 | Michael Valgren | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
75 | António Morgado | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
76 | Sébastien Grignard | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
77 | Xandro Meurisse | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 6:09 |
78 | Kasper Asgreen | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
79 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
80 | Hugo Houle | Israel-Premier Tech | 6:12 |
81 | Fabian Lienhard | Groupama-FDJ | 6:14 |
82 | Ben Turner | INEOS Grenadiers | 6:17 |
83 | Aimé De Gendt | Cofidis | s.t. |
84 | Hugo Page | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
85 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
86 | Jasper De Buyst | Lotto Dstny | 7:02 |
87 | Mathias Norsgaard | Movistar | 7:23 |
88 | Casper Pedersen | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
89 | Dylan Van Baarle | Visma | Lease a Bike | 7:41 |
90 | Elias Maris | Team Flanders-Baloise | 7:41 |
91 | Carlos Canal | Movistar | s.t. |
92 | Alberto Bruttomesso | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
93 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Q36.5 Pro Cycling | s.t. |
94 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
95 | Stefan Bissegger | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
96 | Oscar Riesebeek | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
97 | Luca De Meester | Bingoal-WB | 11:05 |
98 | Luis-Joe Lührs | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
99 | Kenneth Van Rooy | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
100 | Edvald Boasson-Hagen | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
101 | Lars Craps | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
102 | Patrick Eddy | dsm-firmenich-PostNL | s.t. |
103 | Juri Hollmann | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
104 | Dylan Vandenstorme | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
105 | Elmar Reinders | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
106 | Jordi Warlop | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
107 | Max Kanter | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
108 | Alan Riou | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
109 | Nils Brun | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
110 | Maurice Ballerstedt | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
111 | Ryan Gibbons | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
112 | Dion Smith | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
113 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
114 | Miles Scotson | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
115 | Kamiel Bonneu | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
116 | Jacob Eriksson | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
117 | Sebastian Kolze Changizi | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
118 | Pepijn Reinderink | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
Course map & profile:
2024 E3 race map
2024 E3 race profile
Start list with back numbers, March 21, 2023:
Team Visma | Lease A Bike | |
1 | Wout Van Aert |
2 | Strand Hagenes Per |
3 | Tiesj Benoot |
4 | Matteo Jorgenson |
5 | Edoardo Affini |
6 | Jan Tratnik |
7 | Dylan Van Baarle |
Alpecin-Deceuninck | |
11 | Mathieu van der Poel |
12 | Maurice Ballerstedt |
13 | Juri Hollmann |
14 | Søren Kragh Andersen |
15 | Xandro Meurisse |
16 | Oscar Riesebeek |
17 | Senne Leysen |
Intermarché-Wanty | |
21 | Biniam Girmay |
22 | Vito Braet |
23 | Dries De Pooter |
24 | Rune Herregodts |
25 | Hugo Page |
26 | Dion Smith |
27 | Georg Zimmermann |
Soudal Quick-Step | |
31 | Julian Alaphilippe |
32 | Kasper Asgreen |
33 | Pepijn Reinderink |
34 | Yves Lampaert |
35 | Gianni Moscon |
36 | Casper Pedersen |
37 | Jordi Warlop |
Arkea-B&B Hotels | |
41 | Amaury Capiot |
42 | Vincenzo Albanese |
43 | Donavan Grondin |
44 | Mathis Le Berre |
45 | Matis Louvel |
46 | Lukasz Owsian |
47 | Florian Sénéchal |
Astana Qazaqstan | |
51 | Gleb Brussenskiy |
52 | Yevgeniy Fedorov |
53 | Michele Gazzoli |
54 | Yevgeniy Gidich |
55 | Max Kanter |
56 | Rüdiger Selig |
57 | Gleb Syritsa |
Bahrain Victorious | |
61 | Matej Mohoric |
62 | Alberto Bruttomesso |
63 | Kamil Gradek |
64 | Fran Miholjevic |
65 | Andrea Pasqualon |
66 | Cameron Scott |
67 | Matevz Govekar |
Bora-hansgrohe | |
71 | Danny Van Poppel |
72 | Emil Herzog |
73 | Nico Denz |
74 | Luis-Joe Lührs |
75 | Filip Maciejuk |
76 | Ryan Mullen |
77 | Marco Haller |
Cofidis | |
81 | Aimé De Gendt |
82 | Alexis Gougeard |
83 | Nolann Mahoudo |
84 | Christophe Noppe |
85 | Alexis Renard |
86 | Nicolas Debeaumarché |
87 | Axel Zingle |
Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | |
91 | Oliver Naesen |
92 | Edvald Boasson-Hagen |
93 | Dries De Bondt |
94 | Sander De Pestel |
95 | Jordan Labrosse |
96 | Valentin Retailleau |
97 | Bastien Tronchon |
EF Education-EasyPost | |
101 | Alberto Bettiol |
102 | Stefan Bissegger |
103 | Owain Doull |
104 | Yuhi Todome |
105 | Jack Rootkin-Gray |
106 | Jonas Rutsch |
107 | Michael Valgren |
Groupama-FDJ | |
111 | Stefan Küng |
112 | Lewis Askey |
113 | Sven Erik Bystrøm |
114 | Olivier Le Gac |
115 | Fabian Lienhard |
116 | Valentin Madouas |
117 | Clément Russo |
INEOS Grenadiers | |
121 | Luke Rowe |
122 | Jhonnatan Narvaez |
123 | Ben Turner |
124 | Magnus Sheffield |
125 | Ben Swift |
126 | Connor Swift |
127 | Elia Viviani |
Lidl-Trek | |
131 | Mads Pedersen |
132 | Ryan Gibbons |
133 | Alex Kirsch |
134 | Jasper Stuyven |
135 | Mathias Vacek |
136 | Otto Vergaerde |
137 | Daan Hoole |
Movistar | |
141 | Oier Lazkano |
142 | Carlos Canal |
143 | Remi Cavagna |
144 | Johan Jacobs |
145 | Mathias Norsgaard |
146 | Lorenzo Milesi |
147 | Ivan Romeo |
Team dsm-firmenich-PostNL | |
151 | Patrick Eddy |
152 | Alex Edmondson |
153 | Enzo Leijnse |
154 | Niklas Märkl |
155 | Tobias Lund Andresen |
156 | Timo Roosen |
157 | Julius Van Den Berg |
Jayco-Alula | |
161 | Michael Matthews |
162 | Luke Durbridge |
163 | Anders Foldager |
164 | Amund Grøndahl Jansen |
165 | Kelland O'Brien |
166 | Blake Quick |
167 | Elmar Reinders |
UAE Team Emirates | |
171 | Tim Wellens |
172 | Rui Oliveira |
173 | Alessandro Covi |
174 | Michael Vink |
175 | Mikkel Bjerg |
176 | Marc Hirschi |
177 | Nils Politt |
Lotto Dstny | |
181 | Arnaud De Lie |
182 | Victor Campenaerts |
183 | Jasper De Buyst |
184 | Pascal Eenkhoorn |
185 | Jacopo Guarnieri |
186 | Sébastien Grignard |
187 | Brent Van Moer |
Israel-Premier Tech | |
191 | Jakob Fuglsang |
192 | Guillaume Boivin |
193 | Hugo Houle |
194 | Krists Neilands |
195 | Riley Sheehan |
196 | Nadav Raisberg |
197 | Tom Van Asbroeck |
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | |
201 | Giacomo Nizzolo |
202 | Tom Devriendt |
203 | Frederik Frison |
204 | Nicolò Parisini |
205 | Jannik Steimle |
206 | Rory Townsend |
207 | Nickolas Zukowsky |
Tudor Pro Cycling Team | |
211 | Matteo Trentin |
212 | Tom Bohli |
213 | Nils Brun |
214 | Jacob Eriksson |
215 | Alexander Krieger |
216 | Marius Mayrhofer |
217 | Rick Pluimers |
Uno-X Mobility | |
221 | Rasmus Tiller |
222 | Jonas Abrahamsen |
223 | Louis Bendixen |
224 | Markus Hoelgaard |
225 | Niklas Larsen |
226 | William Blume Levy |
227 | Rasmus Bøgh Wallin |
Team Flanders-Baloise | |
231 | Kamiel Bonneu |
232 | Toon Clynhens |
233 | Lars Craps |
234 | Jasper Dejaegher |
235 | Elias Maris |
236 | Dylan Vandenstorme |
237 | Victor Vercouillie |
Bingoal-WB | |
241 | Louis Blouwe |
242 | Cériel Desal |
243 | Davide Persico |
244 | Dimitri Peyskens |
245 | Tom Portsmouth |
246 | Kenneth Van Rooy |
247 | Sasha Weemaes |