2022 Le Samyn (1.1), Belgium
54th edition: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Complete results
Le Samyn Podium history | 2021 edition | 2023 edition | Photos | Start list
Quaregnon - Dour, 209 kms
Matteo Trentin's bike throw lets him just beat Hugo Hofstetter. Sirotti photo
Stoic philosopher Epictetus' Golden Sayings is available as an audiobook here. For the Kindle eBook version, just click on the Amazon link on the right.
Weather at the finish city of Dour at 1:30 PM, local time: 9C (49F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the south-southeast at 6 km/hr (4 mph). No rain currently and it should hold off until at 5:00 PM.
The race: Here's the report from winner Matteo Trentin's UAE Team Emirates.
Matteo Trentin took home the 10th season victory for UAE Team Emirates and his first of the season with a powerful sprint win at Le Samyn today in Belgium.
The 32-year old forged clear in an elite group of 8 riders who moved away inside the final 20km of the cobbled finishing circuit, on a day which took the riders from Quaregnon to Dour (209km).
Trentin made the most of his good form to make attacks in the closing kilometres but found himself a heavily marked man by the like of Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Soudal) who would not let the Italian clear.
In the closing sprint Trentin opened up and held his nerve to finish just ahead of Frenchman Hugo Hofstetter (Arkea-Samsic).
Trentin: “It was a really good race, extremely hard and aggressive from start to finish. As a team we knew we didn’t want it to finish in a big bunch sprint as there were some fast finishers there. Attacks really started from about 50km out, first I went away in a group of 25 and it gradually got narrowed down to just just a few of us. I think today I really tried to make the race instead of following and it worked out well for me in the end.”
Content continues below the ads
Complete Results:
209 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.319 km/hr
| 1 | Matteo Trentin | UAE Team Emirates | 4hr 49min 29sec |
| 2 | Hugo Hofstetter | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 3 | Dries De Bondt | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
| 4 | Stan Dewulf | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 5 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 6 | Victor Campenaerts | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
| 7 | Dries van Gestel | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 8 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
| 9 | Rasmus Tiller | Uno-X | @ 4sec |
| 10 | Arnaud De Lie | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
| 11 | Andrea Pasqualon | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 12 | Oliver Naesen | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 13 | Amaury Capiot | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 14 | Luca Mozzato | B&B Hotels-KTM | s.t. |
| 15 | Timothy Dupont | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | s.t. |
| 16 | Damien Touzé | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 17 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 18 | Pierre Barbier | B&B Hotels-KTM | s.t. |
| 19 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 20 | Daan Hoole | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 21 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 22 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 23 | Kenneth Van Rooy | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
| 24 | Fabio Jakobsen | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
| 25 | Nickolas Zukowsky | Human Powered Health | s.t. |
| 26 | Philippe Gilbert | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
| 27 | Kévin Vauquelin | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 28 | Rick Pluimers | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 29 | Brent Van Moer | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
| 30 | Marco Haller | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 31 | Boy van Poppel | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 32 | Max Walscheid | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 33 | André Carvalho | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 34 | Casper Pedersen | Team DSM | s.t. |
| 35 | Aimé De Gendt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 36 | Jarno Mobach | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 37 | Antoine Raugel | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 38 | Fabio Van Den Bossche | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
| 39 | Patrick Gamper | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:13 |
| 40 | Cédric Beullens | Lotto Soudal | 0:14 |
| 41 | Jonas Koch | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:16 |
| 42 | Gijs Van Hoecke | Ag2r-Citroën | 0:23 |
| 43 | Donavan Grondin | Arkéa-Samsic | 0:27 |
| 44 | Niki Terpstra | TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 45 | Otto Vergaerde | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 46 | Paul Penhoët | Groupama-FDJ Continental | s.t. |
| 47 | Markus Pajur | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 48 | Benjamin Declercq | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 49 | Stijn Steels | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 0:30 |
| 50 | Laurence Pithie | Groupama-FDJ Continental | 0:43 |
| 51 | Erik Resell | Uno-X | s.t. |
| 52 | Sander De Pestel | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 0:46 |
| 53 | Kevin Van Melsen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 54 | Tobias Halland | Uno-X | s.t. |
| 55 | Anders Skaarseth | Uno-X | 0:48 |
| 56 | Taco van der Hoorn | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:53 |
| 57 | Laurenz Rex | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | s.t. |
| 58 | Loe Van Belle | Jumbo-Visma | 1:23 |
| 59 | Quentin Jauregui | B&B Hotels-KTM | s.t. |
| 60 | Vegard Stake Laengen | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 61 | Alex Colman | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 1:33 |
| 62 | Ryan Gibbons | UAE Team Emirates | 1:56 |
| 63 | Arne Marit | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 2:14 |
| 64 | Marco Frigo | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:19 |
| 65 | Tim Merlier | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
| 66 | Josef Cerný | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 2:32 |
| 67 | Geoffrey Soupe | TotalEnergies | 2:39 |
| 68 | Sam Watson | Groupama-FDJ Continental | s.t. |
| 69 | Jannik Steimle | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
| 70 | Arthur Kluckers | Leopard Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 71 | Pavel Bittner | Team DSM | s.t. |
| 72 | Evaldas Siskevicius | GO Sport-Roubaix-Lille Metropole | s.t. |
| 73 | Stan Van Tricht | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
| 74 | Baptiste Planckaert | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 75 | Wesley Kreder | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 76 | Edward Planckaert | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
| 77 | Oliviero Troia | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 78 | Casper Van Uden | Team DSM | 4:04 |
| 79 | Frederik Frison | Lotto Soudal | 4:47 |
| 80 | Ludovic Robeet | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | 5:31 |
| 81 | Lasse Norman Hansen | Uno-X | s.t. |
| 82 | Szymon Sajnok | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 83 | Alex Kirsch | Trek-Segafredo | 6:14 |
| 84 | Kamiel Bonneu | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 6:27 |
| 85 | David Dekker | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 86 | Pier-André Côté | Human Powered Health | 6:47 |
| 87 | August Jensen | Human Powered Health | s.t. |
| 88 | Ethan Vernon | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
| 89 | Florian Vermeersch | Lotto Soudal | 7:36 |
| 90 | Thibau Verhofstadt | Tarteletto-Isorex | 8:05 |
| 91 | Rune Herregodts | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
| 92 | Antonio Puppio | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 93 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
| 94 | William Blume Levy | Uno-X | s.t. |
| 95 | Colin Joyce | Human Powered Health | s.t. |
| 96 | Felix Gross | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 97 | Itamar Einhorn | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 98 | Marc Sarreau | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 99 | Karl Lauk | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | s.t. |
| 100 | Sam Welsford | Team DSM | s.t. |
| 101 | Samuel Leroux | GO Sport-Roubaix-Lille Metropole | s.t. |
| 102 | Tom Wirtgen | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | s.t. |
| 103 | Adam De Vos | Human Powered Health | s.t. |
| 104 | Lars Boven | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 105 | Simon Dehairs | Alpecin-Fenix | 8:55 |
| 106 | Thimo Willems | Minerva Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 107 | Jenthe Biermans | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 108 | Maxime De Poorter | Tarteletto-Isorex | s.t. |
| 109 | Kasper Saver | Minerva Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 110 | Torsten Demeyere | Tarteletto-Isorex | s.t. |
| 111 | Robbe Ghys | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
| 112 | Milan Menten | Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces | 8:59 |
| 113 | Emils Liepins | Trek-Segafredo | 14:39 |
| 114 | Gilles Borra | Minerva Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 115 | Joseph Pidcock | Groupama-FDJ Continental | 15:40 |
| 116 | Gil D'Heygere | Minerva Cycling Team | s.t. |
Content continues below the ads
Le Samyn photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Andrea Pasqualon enjoys some time on the cobbles.
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
Lorenzo Manzin
Victor Campenaerts
Geoffrey Soupe
Fabio Jakobsen
Edward Theuns
Philippe Gilbert
Dries De Bondt
Hugo Hofstetter
Mateeo Trentin (in UAE Team Emirates kit)
Near the line, could it be any closer?
Matteo Trentin just beats Hugo Hofstetter.
And celebrates. UAE Team Emirates photo.
The podium, from left: Hugo Hofstetter (2nd), Matteo Trentin (1st) & Dries De Bondt (3rd). Sirotti photo
Content continues below the ads
Start list with back numbers, February 28, 2022:
| ALPECIN-FENIX | |
| 1 | MERLIER Tim |
| 2 | DE BONDT Dries |
| 3 | GAZE Samuel |
| 4 | LEYSEN Senne |
| 5 | PLANCKAERT Edward |
| 6 | DEHAIRS Simon |
| 7 | VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume |
| AG2R-CITROEN | |
| 11 | NAESEN Oliver |
| 12 | SARREAU Marc |
| 13 | DEWULF Stan |
| 14 | RAUGEL Antoine |
| 15 | TOUZÉ Damien |
| 16 | VAN HOECKE Gijs |
| BORA-HANSGROHE | |
| 21 | GAMPER Patrick |
| 22 | KOCH Jonas |
| 23 | LAAS Martin |
| 24 | LÜHRS Luis |
| 25 | PÖSTLBERGER Lukas |
| 26 | SCHELLING Ide |
| 27 | WALLS Matthew |
| COFIDIS | |
| 31 | WALSCHEID Max |
| 32 | VANBILSEN Kenneth |
| 34 | CARVALHO André |
| 35 | FINÉ Eddy |
| 36 | KREDER Wesley |
| 37 | SAJNOK Szymon |
| QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL | |
| 41 | JAKOBSEN Fabio |
| 42 | CERNY Josef |
| 43 | STEELS Stijn |
| 44 | STEIMLE Jannik |
| 45 | VAN LERBERGHE Bert |
| 46 | VAN TRICHT Stan |
| 47 | VERNON Ethan |
| TEAM DSM | |
| 51 | MAYRHOFER Marius |
| 52 | NABERMAN Tim |
| 53 | PEDERSEN Casper Phillip |
| 54 | WELSFORD Samuel |
| 55 | BITTNER Pavel |
| 56 | LEIJNSE Enzo |
| 57 | VAN UDEN Casper |
| INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT MATÉRIAUX | |
| 61 | DE GENDT Aimé |
| 62 | VAN POPPEL Boy |
| 63 | PASQUALON Andrea |
| 64 | PLANCKAERT Baptiste |
| 65 | VAN DER HOORN Taco |
| 66 | VAN MELSEN Kevin |
| 67 | VLIEGEN Loïc |
| ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH | |
| 71 | BARBIER Rudy |
| 72 | BIERMANS Jenthe |
| 73 | FRIGO Marco |
| 74 | HOLLENSTEIN Reto |
| 75 | JONES Taj |
| 76 | STRONG Corbin |
| 77 | VAN ASBROECK Tom |
| JUMBO-VISMA | |
| 81 | EENKHOORN Pascal |
| 82 | DEKKER David |
| 83 | HESSMANN Michel |
| 84 | VAN BELLE Loe |
| 85 | BOVEN Lars |
| 86 | GELEIJN Owen |
| 87 | PLUIMERS Rick |
| LOTTO SOUDAL | |
| 91 | GILBERT Philippe |
| 92 | CAMPENAERTS Victor |
| 93 | VAN MOER Brent |
| 94 | DE LIE Arnaud |
| 95 | FRISON Frederik |
| 96 | BEULLENS Cedric |
| 97 | VERMEERSCH Florian |
| TREK-SEGAFREDO | |
| 101 | LIEPINS Emils |
| 102 | MOSCHETTI Matteo |
| 103 | BRUSTENGA Marc |
| 104 | THEUNS Edward |
| 105 | HOOLE Daan |
| 106 | KIRSCH Alex |
| 107 | VERGAERDE Otto |
| UAE TEAM EMIRATES | |
| 111 | ACKERMANN Pascal |
| 112 | BRUNEL Alexys |
| 113 | GIBBONS Ryan |
| 114 | MOLANO Juan |
| 115 | OLIVEIRA Rui |
| 116 | TROIA Oliviero |
| 117 | GROSS Felix |
| ARKÉA-SAMSIC | |
| 121 | DECLERCQ Benjamin |
| 122 | GRONDIN Donovan |
| 123 | HOFSTETTER Hugo |
| 124 | CAPIOT Amaury |
| 125 | NOPPE Christophe |
| 126 | VAUQUELIN Kevin |
| 127 | PAJUR Markus |
| B&B HOTELS-KTM | |
| 131 | BARBIER Pierre |
| 132 | DEBUSSCHERE Jens |
| 133 | MORICE Julien |
| 134 | JAUREGUI Quentin |
| 135 | MOZZATO Luca |
| 136 | PARISELLA Raphael |
| BINGOAL-PAUWELS SAUCES WB | |
| 141 | ANIOLKOWSKI Stanislaw |
| 142 | DUPONT Timothy |
| 143 | WIRTGEN Tom |
| 144 | LAUK Karl |
| 145 | MENTEN Milan |
| 146 | REX Laurenz |
| 147 | ROBEET Ludovic |
| HUMAN POWERED HEALTH | |
| 151 | CARPENTER Robin |
| 152 | COTÉ Pier-André |
| 153 | DE VOS Adam |
| 154 | JENSEN August |
| 155 | JOYCE Colin |
| 156 | KRUL Wessel |
| 157 | ZUKOWSKY Nick |
| SPORT VLAANDEREN-BALOISE | |
| 161 | BONNEU Kamiel |
| 162 | COLMAN Alex |
| 163 | DE PESTEL Sander |
| 164 | DENS Tuur |
| 165 | HERREGODTS Rune |
| 166 | MARIT Arne |
| 167 | VAN ROOY Kenneth |
| TOTALENERGIES | |
| 171 | LAWLESS Christopher |
| 172 | MANZIN Lorrenzo |
| 173 | SAGAN Juraj |
| 174 | TERPSTRA Niki |
| 175 | VAN GESTEL Dries |
| 176 | SOUPE Geoffrey |
| 177 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald |
| UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM | |
| 181 | TILLER Rasmus Fossum |
| 182 | JOHANNESSEN Tobias |
| 183 | RESELL Erik Nordsaeter |
| 184 | HANSEN Lasse Norman |
| 185 | SKAARSETH Anders |
| 186 | LEVY William Blume |
| 187 | ABRAHAMSEN Jonas |
| BEAT CYCLING | |
| 191 | BOONS Jente |
| 192 | BOUTS Jordy |
| 193 | BURGER Sven |
| 194 | DAEMEN Stijn |
| 195 | BÜCHLI Matthijs |
| 196 | HOPPEZAK Vincent |
| 197 | DISSEL Bram |
| GROUPAMA-FDJ CONTINENTAL | |
| 201 | ÄRM Rait |
| 202 | PALENI Enzo |
| 203 | PENHOËT Paul |
| 204 | PIDCOCK Joseph |
| 205 | PITHIE Laurence |
| 206 | PLOWRIGHT Jensen |
| 207 | WATSON Samuel |
| LEOPARD PRO CYCLING | |
| 211 | HEIDERSCHEID Colin |
| 212 | HODAPP Johannes |
| 213 | KLUCKERS Arthur |
| 214 | MOBACH Jarno |
| 215 | TEUTENBERG Tim Torn |
| 216 | COQUERET Louis |
| 217 | WOLF Justin |
| MINERVA CYCLING TEAM | |
| 221 | JOSEPH Thomas |
| 222 | BORRA Gilles |
| 223 | MUSEEUW Stefano |
| 224 | WILLEMS Thimo |
| 225 | D'HEYGERE Gil |
| 226 | CAETHOVEN Kenneth |
| 227 | SAVER Kasper |
| TARTELETTO-ISOREX | |
| 231 | VANOVERSCHELDE Kobe |
| 232 | VERHOFSTADT Thibau |
| 233 | WOLD Marius Melby |
| 234 | LEMMENS Sander |
| 235 | DEMEYERE Torsten |
| 236 | VAN DE KERKHOVE Brent |
| 237 | DE POORTER Maxime |
| GO SPORT-ROUBAIX LILLE METROPOLE | |
| 241 | BOUDAT Thomas |
| 242 | LEROUX Samuel |
| 243 | MAINGUENAUD Tom |
| 244 | SISKEVICIUS Evaldas |
| 245 | TABELLION Valentin |
| 246 | VAHTRA Norman |
| 247 | VERMEULEN Emiel |