2024 Amstel Gold Race (World Tour),
The Netherlands
58th edition: Sunday, April 14, 2024
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Maastricht - Valkenburg, 253.6 km, The Netherlands
Tom Pidcock wins a classic.
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Weather at the finish city of Valkenburg at 1:45 PM, local time: 16C (62F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 18 km/hr (10 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: The route was changed beause of a police car accident in the Women's Amstel Gold Race. The women's race was first neutralised and the the Bergseweg limb was removed from the route for both the men's and women's races. Here is the Tweet from the police: “A police motorcyclist was injured this morning around 11 a.m. in a collision with a car on the Bergseweg in #Voerendaal while supervising the Amstel Gold Race. He was taken to hospital by ambulance. The Bergseweg has been closed off for an investigation by TTOV.”
The men's race arrived the the next climb, the Korenweg, by a different road.
Here's the race report from winner Thomas Pidcock's Team INEOS Grenadiers:
Tom Pidcock took a stellar maiden victory in the Amstel Gold Race by out sprinting a trio of elite riders to take the win in Berg en Terblijt.
The team worked flawlessly throughout the day, bossing the front first with Cam Wurf and Brandon Rivera in the early stages, before Omar Fraile took to the front as TV cameras turned on.
Ben Turner put in some huge digs on the myriad of climbs that litter the undulating roads in the most southern extremities of the Netherlands, before Michal Kwiatkowski upped the pace into the foot of the Gulperberg with 45km remaining.
Kwiato would do much of the work in the following kilometres, as the peloton rapidly thinned out and key riders started making their moves. A split of about 10 went clear inside 30 kilometres to go and Tom cannily hopped across with Tiesj Benoot (Visma - Lease a Bike), where the group quickly gathered more than 30 seconds on a much-reduced bunch.
Attacks were near constant from there until the finish, with Tom to the fore all the way. In the dying kilometres a strong quartet, including the Yorkshireman, went clear and held a convincing lead under the flame rouge.
Into the sprint, and Pidcock jumped at the perfect moment, powering to the line to take a first victory in the Amstel Gold Race.
Reaction:
TOM: “It feels really good. This year has been so tough, at the start of the year making big sacrifices being away from home so much. So now to finally put it together and get my hands in the air it means a lot. This is a race I’ve always loved racing – it’s pretty special.
“Today the team were fully behind me. Kwiato is going really well but he fully committed to me. To be able to repay them is really special. My hand after Roubaix meant this week I was struggling to sprint. So I was not so confident, but that was just how it was going to end up.
“I knew that this was going to be the front group, and whether more guys came across I don’t know. But I knew that this was already the final [group] here. I think everyone was looking at each other at this point in the race. I put in one attack and people followed, then another one and Tiesj (Benoot) and someone else was with us. We were the last guys to go across to the front. It’s not always about legs at this point.
“Now the pressure is off we can just go and race and do our best – dare I say enjoy [Fleche and Liege]!”
KWIATO: “It felt like we had everything under control from the start, but we exposed ourselves and we were losing numbers. The boys did an amazing job for pretty much the entire race. Then in the last 60-70km to go, we had the feeling that we had to play around with Tom on our own.
“Cam (Wurf) rode from pretty much kilometre zero. We took responsibility, but still with the headwind, the entire race had people coming from the back. It was hard to accelerate and keep the group much smaller. I think Tom was always in the right place at the right time which was our main objective – to keep our leader out of trouble. That’s why he could finish like this. He had really good legs I suppose and it’s finally the victory which he deserved already.
“Chapeau to him – he managed to win Amstel Gold, which is a massive result if you think about it, doing back-to-back races such as Roubaix and Amstel.”
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Complete Results:
253.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.469 km/hr
| 1 | Thomas Pidcock | INEOS Grenadiers | 5hr 58min 17sec |
| 2 | Marc Hirschi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 3 | Tiesj Benoot | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 4 | Mauri Vansevenant | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 5 | Paul Lapeira | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 6 | Valentin Madouas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 7 | Bauke Mollema | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 8 | Quentin Pacher | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 9 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 10 | Michael Matthews | Jayco-AlUla | @ 11sec |
| 11 | Marijn Van Den Berg | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
| 12 | Romain Grégoire | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 13 | Vito Braet | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 14 | Roger Adrià | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 15 | Dylan Teuns | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 16 | Benoît Cosnefroy | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 17 | Mattias Skjelmose | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 18 | Simone Velasco | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
| 19 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 20 | Maxim Van Gils | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
| 21 | Juan Ayuso | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 22 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 23 | Gianluca Brambilla | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 24 | Kevin Vermaerke | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | s.t. |
| 25 | Odd Christian Eiking | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 26 | Andreas Leknessund | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 27 | Alexander Kamp | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 28 | Mikkel Honore | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
| 29 | Stefan Küng | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 30 | Jan Christen | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 31 | Kamiel Bonneu | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 32 | Cristian Scaroni | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
| 33 | Bob Jungels | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 34 | Markus Hoelgaard | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 35 | Michal Kwiatkowski | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 36 | Dorian Godon | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 37 | Matteo Jorgenson | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 38 | Joao Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 39 | Toms Skujins | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 40 | Andreas Kron | Lotto Dstny | 0:20 |
| 41 | Kévin Vauquelin | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 42 | Georg Zimmermann | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 43 | Stephen Williams | Israel-Premier Tech | 0:23 |
| 44 | Fran Miholjevic | Bahrain Victorious | 1:09 |
| 45 | Ben Healy | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:38 |
| 46 | Davide Formolo | Movistar | 1:56 |
| 47 | Sam Oomen | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 48 | Anthon Charmig | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
| 49 | Mark Donovan | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 50 | Lucas Eriksson | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 51 | Richard Carapaz | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
| 52 | Brandon McNulty | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 53 | Samuele Battistella | Astana Qazaqstan | 2:47 |
| 54 | Simon Clarke | Israel-Premier Tech | 3:04 |
| 55 | Jelle Johannink | TDT-Unibet | 3:06 |
| 56 | William Junior Lecerf | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 57 | Francesco Busatto | Intermarché-Wanty | 4:11 |
| 58 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
| 59 | Nicolo Buratti | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 60 | Jenno Berckmoes | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
| 61 | Frank Van Den Broek | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | s.t. |
| 62 | David De La Cruz | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 63 | Alessandro Fancellu | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 64 | Adam Toupalik | TDT-Unibet | s.t. |
| 65 | Gil Gelders | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 66 | Mathis Le Berre | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 67 | Louis Vervaeke | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 68 | Pepijn Reinderink | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 69 | Anthony Delaplace | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 70 | Tobias Halland Johannessen | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 71 | Laurens Huys | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 72 | James Shaw | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
| 73 | Frederik Wandahl | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 74 | Giovanni Aleotti | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 75 | Andrea Bagioli | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 76 | Jakob Fuglsang | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 77 | Johannes Staune-Mittet | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 78 | Jonas Gregaard | Lotto Dstny | s.t. |
| 79 | Sjoerd Bax | UAE Team Emirates | 4:15 |
| 80 | Quinten Hermans | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 4:17 |
| 81 | Lawson Craddock | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 82 | Mauro Schmid | Jayco-AlUla | 6:49 |
| 83 | Brandon Rivera | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 84 | Iván García Cortina | Movistar | 6:56 |
| 85 | Walter Calzoni | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 86 | Julien Vermote | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 87 | Elias Maris | Team Flanders-Baloise | s.t. |
| 88 | Hartthijs De Vries | TDT-Unibet | s.t. |
| 89 | Dries De Pooter | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 90 | Axel Laurance | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 91 | Martin Urianstad Bugge | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 92 | Damien Touzé | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 93 | Xandro Meurisse | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 94 | Jacob Eriksson | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 95 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 96 | Corbin Strong | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 97 | Anders Skaarseth | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 98 | Pierre Gautherat | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 99 | Lorenzo Germani | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 100 | Krists Neilands | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 101 | Owen Geleijn | TDT-Unibet | s.t. |
| 102 | Antoine Huby | Soudal Quick-Step | s.t. |
| 103 | Rémy Rochas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 104 | Max Kanter | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
| 105 | Carlos Canal | Movistar | s.t. |
| 106 | Max Schachmann | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 107 | Per Strand Hagenes | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 108 | Oliver Naesen | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 109 | Milan Vader | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 110 | Vincenzo Albanese | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 111 | Finn Fisher-Black | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 112 | Søren Kragh Andersen | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 113 | Alex Aranburu | Movistar | s.t. |
| 114 | Lukas Nerurkar | EF Education-EasyPost | 7:02 |
| 115 | Ben Turner | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 116 | Tomas Kopecky | TDT-Unibet | s.t. |
| 117 | Zeb Kyffin | TDT-Unibet | 10:05 |
| 118 | Martijn Tusveld | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | s.t. |
| 119 | Valentin Retailleau | Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 120 | Enzo Leijnse | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | s.t. |
| 121 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | s.t. |
| 122 | Owain Doull | EF Education-EasyPost | 11:01 |
| 123 | Luke Durbridge | Jayco-AlUla | s.t. |
| 124 | Damien Howson | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 125 | Simon Guglielmi | Arkéa-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
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2024 Amstel Gold Race Map
2024 Amstel Gold Race profile
2024 Amstel Gold Race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Starting ceremonies: Team INEOS Grenadiers is presented
Team Soudal Quick-Step
Team Bora-hansgrohe
Team Groupama-FDJ
World champion Mathieu van der Poel and his Alpecin-Deceuninck team
The peloton racing on a beautiful day in The Netherlands
Photographer Sirotti has labeled this as the peloton on a climb.
In Valkenberg, Bauke Mollema
Brandon McNulty
Tom Pidcock wins the race.
Pidcock just after the race.
Second-place Marc Hirschi just after the race.
Third-place Tiesj Bennot
The podium, from left: Marc Hirschi (2nd), Tom Pidcock (1st) & Tiesj Benoot (3rd).
Third place Tiesj Benoot
Winner Tom Pidcock
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Start list with back numbers, coming April 13, 2024:
| UAE Team Emirates | |
| 1 | Juan Ayuso |
| 2 | Jan Christen |
| 3 | Sjoerd Bax |
| 4 | Finn Fisher-Black |
| 5 | Joao Almeida |
| 6 | Marc Hirschi |
| 7 | Brandon Mcnulty |
| EF Education-EasyPost | |
| 11 | Ben Healy |
| 12 | Richard Carapaz |
| 13 | Owain Doull |
| 14 | Mikkel Honore |
| 15 | Lukas Nerurkar |
| 16 | James Shaw |
| 17 | Marijn Van Den Berg |
| INEOS Grenadiers | |
| 21 | Tom Pidcock |
| 22 | Michal Kwiatkowski |
| 23 | Omar Fraile |
| 24 | Brandon Rivera |
| 25 | Connor Swift |
| 26 | Ben Turner |
| 27 | Cameron Wurf |
| Alpecin-Deceuninck | |
| 31 | Mathieu van der Poel |
| 32 | Gianni Vermeersch |
| 33 | Quinten Hermans |
| 34 | Søren Kragh Andersen |
| 35 | Axel Laurance |
| 36 | Xandro Meurisse |
| 37 | Oscar Riesebeek |
| Team Visma | Lease A Bike | |
| 41 | Tiesj Benoot |
| 42 | Per Strand Hagenes |
| 43 | Matteo Jorgenson |
| 44 | Milan Vader |
| 45 | Johannes Staune-Mittet |
| 46 | Julien Vermote |
| 47 | Tosh Van Der Sande |
| Soudal Quick-Step | |
| 51 | Antoine Huby |
| 52 | Mauri Vansevenant |
| 53 | Gil Gelders |
| 54 | William Junior Lecerf |
| 55 | Pepijn Reinderink |
| 56 | Jordi Warlop |
| 57 | Louis Vervaeke |
| Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | |
| 61 | Warren Barguil |
| 62 | Enzo Leijnse |
| 63 | Tim Naberman |
| 64 | Oscar Onley |
| 65 | Martijn Tusveld |
| 66 | Frank Van Den Broek |
| 67 | Kevin Vermaerke |
| Bora-hansgrohe | |
| 71 | Max Schachmann |
| 72 | Roger Adrià |
| 73 | Giovanni Aleotti |
| 74 | Alexander Hajek |
| 75 | Bob Jungels |
| 76 | Matteo Sobrero |
| 77 | Frederik Wandahl |
| Astana Qazaqstan | |
| 81 | Samuele Battistella |
| 82 | Anthon Charmig |
| 83 | Igor Chzhan |
| 84 | Yevgeniy Fedorov |
| 85 | Max Kanter |
| 86 | Cristian Scaroni |
| 87 | Simone Velasco |
| Team Jayco-AlUla | |
| 91 | Michael Matthews |
| 92 | Lawson Craddock |
| 93 | Anders Foldager |
| 94 | Luke Durbridge |
| 95 | Felix Engelhardt |
| 96 | Jan Maas |
| 97 | Mauro Schmid |
| Intermarché-Wanty | |
| 101 | Lorenzo Rota |
| 102 | Vito Braet |
| 103 | Francesco Busatto |
| 104 | Dries De Pooter |
| 105 | Tom Paquot |
| 106 | Alexy Faure-Prost |
| 107 | Georg Zimmermann |
| Lidl-Trek | |
| 111 | Andrea Bagioli |
| 112 | Julien Bernard |
| 113 | Bauke Mollema |
| 114 | Fabio Felline |
| 115 | Sam Oomen |
| 116 | Mattias Skjelmose |
| 117 | Toms Skujins |
| Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale | |
| 121 | Benoît Cosnefroy |
| 122 | Pierre Gautherat |
| 123 | Dorian Godon |
| 124 | Paul Lapeira |
| 125 | Oliver Naesen |
| 126 | Valentin Retailleau |
| 127 | Damien Touzé |
| Arkea-B&B Hotels | |
| 131 | Vincenzo Albanese |
| 132 | Anthony Delaplace |
| 133 | Simon Guglielmi |
| 134 | Laurens Huys |
| 135 | Mathis Le Berre |
| 136 | Kévin Vauquelin |
| 137 | Matis Louvel |
| Groupama-FDJ | |
| 141 | Valentin Madouas |
| 142 | Lorenzo Germani |
| 143 | Romain Grégoire |
| 144 | Stefan Küng |
| 145 | Quentin Pacher |
| 146 | Rémy Rochas |
| 147 | Clément Russo |
| Bahrain Victorious | |
| 151 | Pello Bilbao |
| 152 | Nicolo Buratti |
| 153 | Matevz Govekar |
| 154 | Yukiya Arashiro |
| 155 | Fran Miholjevic |
| 156 | Lukasz Wisniowski |
| 157 | Fred Wright |
| Cofidis | |
| 161 | Axel Mariault |
| 162 | Ben Hermans |
| 163 | Gorka Izagirre |
| 164 | Ion Izagirre |
| 165 | Christophe Noppe |
| 166 | Alexis Renard |
| 167 | Ludovic Robeet |
| Movistar Team | |
| 171 | Alex Aranburu |
| 172 | Jorge Arcas |
| 173 | Jon Barrenetxea |
| 174 | Carlos Canal |
| 175 | Davide Formolo |
| 176 | Iván García Cortina |
| 177 | Johan Jacobs |
| TDT-Unibet | |
| 181 | Hartthijs De Vries |
| 182 | Owen Geleijn |
| 183 | Jelle Johannink |
| 184 | Tomas Kopecky |
| 185 | Zeb Kyffin |
| 186 | Lander Loockx |
| 187 | Adam Toupalik |
| Uno-X Mobility | |
| 191 | Martin Urianstad Bugge |
| 192 | Odd Christian Eiking |
| 193 | Markus Hoelgaard |
| 194 | Anders Halland Johannessen |
| 195 | Tobias Halland Johannessen |
| 196 | Andreas Leknessund |
| 197 | Anders Skaarseth |
| Team Flanders-Baloise | |
| 201 | Kamiel Bonneu |
| 202 | Toon Clynhens |
| 203 | Lars Craps |
| 204 | Ward Vanhoof |
| 205 | Elias Maris |
| 206 | Vincent Van Hemelen |
| 207 | Dylan Vandenstorme |
| Israel-Premier Tech | |
| 211 | Simon Clarke |
| 212 | Jakob Fuglsang |
| 213 | Krists Neilands |
| 214 | Corbin Strong |
| 215 | Dylan Teuns |
| 216 | Stephen Williams |
| 217 | Jake Stewart |
| Lotto Dstny | |
| 221 | Maxim Van Gils |
| 222 | Jenno Berckmoes |
| 223 | Jarrad Drizners |
| 224 | Pascal Eenkhoorn |
| 225 | Andreas Kron |
| 226 | Mathijs Paasschens |
| 227 | Jonas Gregaard |
| Tudor Pro Cycling Team | |
| 231 | Sebastian Kolze Changizi |
| 232 | Aloïs Charrin |
| 233 | Jacob Eriksson |
| 234 | Lucas Eriksson |
| 235 | Mika Heming |
| 236 | Alexander Kamp |
| 237 | Arthur Kluckers |
| Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | |
| 241 | Gianluca Brambilla |
| 242 | Walter Calzoni |
| 243 | David De La Cruz |
| 244 | Mark Donovan |
| 245 | Alessandro Fancellu |
| 246 | Damien Howson |
| 247 | Joey Rosskopf |