Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2026

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes information

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes is the final of the three Ardennes Classics, scheduled for April 26 this year. It comes after the Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition and the mid-week La Flèche Wallonne Femmes.

The race brings down the curtain on the Women’s WorldTour Spring Classics season before a series of summer stage races that start with La Vuelta Femenina in May.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes tends to favour the climbers due to its longer, steep ascents, is the most recent of the three Ardennes Classics to be added to the women’s calendar.

The inaugural event was held in 2017, with Anna van der Breggen taking victory in the first two editions, Annemiek van Vleuten in 2019 and 2022, while Lizzie Deignan and Demi Vollering took out the two editions in between.

In 2023, Vollering made history when she not only claimed her second Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes title but captured the Ardennes Classics triple crown after winning Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne.

A thrilling race all the way to the finish line in Liège saw Vollering out-sprint Elisa Longo Borghini for the win, while her SD Worx teammate Marlen Reusser crossed the line in third place.

In 2024, Grace Brown (FDJ-SUEZ) took the win after spending half of the race in a six-rider breakaway. Coming from behind, the Australian outsprinted Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Vollering (SD Worx-Protime).

In 2025, Kim Le Court (AG Insurance Soudal) took the biggest win of her career in a four-rider sprint. The Mauritian national champion became the first African rider to win the Walloon Monument.

Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) was second, Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) finished third and Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) was fourth. World champion Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) led the peloton in for fifth place.

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