2025 Amstel Gold Race

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2025 Amstel Gold Race
2025 UCI World Tour, race 17 of 36
Race details
Dates20 April 2025
Stages1
Distance255.9 km (159.0 mi)
Winning time5h 49' 58"
Results
  WinnerFlag of Denmark.svg  Mattias Skjelmose  (DEN) (Lidl–Trek)
  SecondFlag of Slovenia.svg  Tadej Pogačar  (SLO) (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
  ThirdFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Remco Evenepoel  (BEL) (Soudal–Quick-Step)
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The 2025 Amstel Gold Race was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 20 April in the Netherlands. It was the 59th edition of the Amstel Gold Race and the 17th event of the 2025 UCI World Tour.

Contents

The race was won by Mattias Skjelmose, who out-sprinted Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel to take what multiple cycling journalists called the biggest victory of his career.

Pre-race favorites

The Amstel Gold Race marks the beginning of the Ardennes classics, which typically favor puncheur riders who excel on short steep climbs. Tadej Pogačar was seen as the top favorite for the 2025 edition, having won the race in 2023 and having shown strong form by winning the 2025 Tour of Flanders. The other top contenders were Tom Pidcock, the reigning champion from 2024, and Remco Evenepoel, who was racing the Amstel Gold Race for the first time but has won other hilly classics like Liège–Bastogne–Liège in previous years. Other riders mentioned in pre-race analysis were Wout van Aert, Michael Matthews, Ben Healy, Romain Grégoire, Tiesj Benoot, Neilson Powless, Thibau Nys, Maxim Van Gils and Alex Aranburu. [1] [2]

Teams

All eighteen UCI WorldTeams and seven UCI ProTeams participated in the race. [3]

UCI WorldTeams

UCI ProTeams

Race summary

The 2025 race course was 255 km long and featured 34 climbs. An eight-rider breakaway went in the opening 40 km, and gained a gap of over four minutes from the main peloton. The gap was slowly reduced over the next 100 km, with the final member of the breakaway being caught with 69 km remaining. [4] [5]

The first major action from a top contender came with 47 km to go when Julian Alaphilippe attacked off the front, only followed by Tadej Pogačar. The pair built a 13 second gap before Pogačar dropped Alaphilippe to go solo. Remco Evenepoel attacked multiple times from the peloton, eventually forming a chase group with Mattias Skjelmose. With 8 km to the finish, Evenepoel and Skjelmose caught Pogačar, forming a group of three with a single climb remaining. Evenepoel started the sprint, with Pogačar coming around him before Skjelmose accelerated and beat Pogačar on the line in a photo finish. [4] [5]

The result was widely seen as an upset, with James Moultrie of CyclingNews calling Skjelmose's sprint "a true David and Goliath performance". [5] Skjelmose himself admitted after the race that he didn't believe he could win, and was only riding for a podium place, saying "I really didn't believe it" when he crossed the line ahead of Pogačar. [4]

Result

Result [5]
RankRiderTeamTime
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Mattias Skjelmose  (DEN) Lidl–Trek 5h 49' 58"
2Flag of Slovenia.svg  Tadej Pogačar  (SLO) UAE Team Emirates XRG + 0"
3Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Remco Evenepoel  (BEL) Soudal–Quick-Step + 0"
4Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Wout van Aert  (BEL) Visma–Lease a Bike + 34"
5Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Michael Matthews  (AUS) Team Jayco–AlUla + 34"
6Flag of France.svg  Louis Barré  (FRA) Intermarché–Wanty + 34"
7Flag of France.svg  Romain Grégoire  (FRA) Groupama–FDJ + 34"
8Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Tiesj Benoot  (BEL) Visma–Lease a Bike + 34"
9Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Tom Pidcock  (GBR) Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 34"
10Flag of Ireland.svg  Ben Healy  (IRL) EF Education–EasyPost + 34"

References

  1. ↑ Fotheringham, Alasdair (17 April 2025). "Amstel Gold Race 2025 contenders – Demi Vollering, Tadej Pogačar, and their rivals". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Ewan (16 April 2025). "Amstel Gold Race 2025 preview: Route, favourites, how to watch and start lists". cyclist.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Startlist for Amstel Gold Race 2025". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Davidson, Tom (20 April 2025). "'I was riding for the podium' - Mattias Skjelmose pulls off shock Amstel Gold Race win after reeling back Tadej Pogačar attack". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Moultrie, James (20 April 2025). "Amstel Gold Race: Mattias Skjelmose outsprints Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel to secure biggest career victory". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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