US EditionLate-Charging Ganna Denies Van Aert at Across Flanders
Ganna caught Van Aert in the final 100 meters after the Belgian’s 40-kilometer solo breakaway faded, leaving him second again in the race.
- On Wednesday, Italian Filippo Ganna won the one-day Across Flanders race in Waregem, Belgium, overtaking local favorite Wout Van Aert just 100 metres from the finish line.
- Van Aert had launched a brave solo attack up the Eikenberg cobbled climb with about 40km to ride, shedding three companions as a charging peloton ate into his lead.
- Ineos-Grenadiers rider Ganna overcame breaking his front wheel and handlebars in two separate incidents during the 185-kilometre race from Roeselare to Waregem, saying, "This is an amazing victory for me."
- Denied at the death for the second time in three days, Van Aert finished just behind Ganna, while Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold secured third place.
- Despite a win drought spanning more than two years in major one-day races, Van Aert stated, "On this race I found the confidence that I've been lacking.
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Filippo Ganna’s victory in Flanders left a less clean picture of what reflected the goal. The commissioners sanctioned the Italian with 200 Swiss francs, 217 euros, for an infringement during the race: the well-known ‘sticky card’, a maneuver under surveillance in the platoon for the advantage it can generate when it comes to relinking.
In a bouncing final, Italian Filippo Ganna beat the Belgian Wout Van Aert in the last few meters to win in Waregem (Belgium) and win the classic Through Flanders. A last rehearsal before the iconic Tour of Flanders on Sunday 5 April 2026 and a raised fight between the road cycling cadors.
Filippo Ganna took the confidence four days away from the Tour of Flanders by winning this Wednesday 1st April in Waregem the classic Through Flanders at the price of an impressive and fatal effort at the Belgian Wout...
The prestigious one-day race Dwars door Vlaanderen (Roeselare - Waregem; 184.6 km) in Belgium was won by Italian Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers; 3:48.27), who overtook Belgian Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) at the finish line.
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