Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition 2024

Marianne Vos wins Amstel Gold Race after Lorena Wiebes celebrates too soon

As it happened: Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition 2024

Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) timed her bike throw perfectly to beat Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) and win Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition. Thinking she had won, Wiebes stared her celebration early while Vos was still going for the line. Ingvild Gåskjenn (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) finished third.

Due to an accident on the Bergseweg where a police officer was injured, the women’s race was stopped after 45km of racing and neutralised for more than one hour. The peloton made their way to the finishing circuits before racing got back underway for three laps rather than the four laps originally planned.

A break was able to get away on the second lap but they were caught by a elite group of 19 riders the third and final time up the Cauberg.

Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition info

Scheduled for April 14, 2024, Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition is the first of the three Ardennes Classics followed by the mid-week La Flèche Wallonne on April 17, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes on April 21, 2024. 

Held on the same day as the men’s race, the Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition began in 2001, and for three years, the course covered roughly 114km with nine climbs, including the Cauberg. Organisers then suspended the women’s race stating that they did not have enough resources to support both events on the same day, and the Holland Hills Classic was held in Limburg to fill the gap. 

In 2017, the Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition returned to the schedule as part of the UCI Women’s WorldTour with Anna van der Breggen taking the win. The race skipped 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, and had a modified 17-km circuit event in 2021, rather than no race. 

Won by Marianne Vos, the 2021 edition turned out to be one of the most dynamic editions of the women’s race with an explosion of attacks from start to finish. The technical aspects of the circuit and the punchy climbs, 21 in total, offered cycling fans an aggressive style of racing. 

In 2022, Marta Cavalli attacked from a group of seven riders and held off the chase and had enough time to raise her arms in victory. Demi Vollering was second and Liane Lippert took third in a tight sprint for the final podium spot.

After two back-to-back runner-up placings, Vollering finally claimed the victory last year after making her move on the Cauberg and riding to the line solo. Her teammate Lotte Kopecky beat Shirin van Anrooij in the sprint for second place.

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Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition route

The 157.4 km route includes 21 climbs, with five ascents of the Cauberg and a new approach the final time up the iconic Amstel Gold climb.

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Teams

• AG Insurance-Soudal
• Canyon-SRAM Racing
• FDJ-SUEZ
• Fenix-Deceuninck
• Human Powered Health
• Lidl-Trek
• Liv-AlUla Jayco 
• Movistar 
• Roland Cycling
• Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
• Team SD Worx-Protime
• Visma-Lease a Bike
• UAE Team ADQ
• Uno-X Pro Cycling
• Cofidis
• GT Krush Rebellease Pro Cycling
• Volkerwessels Pro Women's Cycling Team
• EF Education – Cannondale
• Lotto Dstny Ladies
• Duolar - Chevalmeire
• Proximus Cyclis Women Cycling Team
• Lifeplus Wahoo
• Team Coop-Repsol
• Hess Cycling Team