US EditionEvenepoel Outsprints Skjelmose to Win Amstel Gold Race
Evenepoel earned revenge for last year’s defeat and claimed his 74th professional victory after a late three-rider move decided the 257km race.
- On Sunday, April 19, 2026, Remco Evenepoel won the Amstel Gold Race, defeating Mattias Skjelmose in a two-man sprint for his first major one-day victory since the 2024 Olympics.
- The decisive move occurred with around 40km remaining in the 257km race featuring 33 steep climbs, as Evenepoel, Skjelmose, and Frenchman Romain Gregoire broke away from the peloton.
- Evenepoel launched the final sprint to secure his 74th professional victory, while Skjelmose admitted, "Remco was for sure the strongest," acknowledging defeat by superior leg strength.
- Frenchman Benoit Cosnefroy finished third, pipping Gregoire in the sprint for the final podium spot, marking a turnaround after Evenepoel's 10th-place finish at the UAE Tour.
- Evenepoel now prepares for next weekend's Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the year's fourth Monument race, where world champion Tadej Pogacar and teenage French sensation Paul Seixas will compete.
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In the finishing sprint, the Belgian defeated Dane Mattias Skjelmose to win, with whom he covered the last 20 kilometers together. Gal Glivar 18.
Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe), a double Olympic champion, honoured his status as a favourite to toast to his triumph at the 60th edition of the Amstel Gold Race, which was fought between Maastricht and Valkenburg on a 257.2 km tour, after a sprint duel with the title advocate, Danish Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl Trek). Read more]]>
The Belgian, two-time Olympic champion, Remco Evenepoel won the Amstel Gold Race in the Netherlands on Sunday 19 April. Franc-Comtois Romain Grégoire, at work during the first attack, finished at the foot of the podium.
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