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(Image credit: Gent-Wevelgem / Flanders Classics)Gent-Wevelgem 2025 - Everything you need to knowGent-Wevelgem 2025 routeRace situationRace begins at 9.50 BSTHello and welcome to the 2025 Gent-Wevelgem!Just two days after Friday's battle at E3 Saxo Classic, it’s time for another major cobbled classic - Gent Wevelgem.Mathieu van der Poel won two days ago with yet another unstoppable long-range attack, the kind of which has become so familiar in recent years, but in his absence there will be a different winner today.
Last spring, this was the one spring cobbled Van der Poel competed in that he did not win, as Mads Pedersen pipped him to the line in Wevelgem. The Dane returns to defend his title this year and is the favourite for the win, leading a strong Lidl-Trek line-up that also features Jonathan Milan and Jasper Stuyven.While races like E3 Saxo Classic have felt a little formulaic recently, the strongest rider simply riding away from everyone early on to take the win, Gent-Wevelgem remains thrillingly unpredictable.
Its balance of tough climbs early on and a long flat finishing straight, plus the destabilising effect the weather can have here, keeps multiple riders in contention for the win, and it’s one of the hardest races of the spring to call - and therefore often one of the most exciting.(Image credit: Getty Images)Talking of the weather - here’s what things looked like at the start in Ypres earlier this morning. Blue skies with no sign of rain, though there is a bit of wind in the air.
The riders have rolled through the unofficial start and will be racing properly soon.(Image credit: Getty Images)Here they are in the neutralised zone.250KM TO GOAnd they're off!The attacks start straight away with Jules Hesters of Team Flanders-Baloise having a go.
More attackers follow suit, but they've all been brought back.More attacks have been made but nothing's stuck yet..
