Date | April 20, 2025 |
Start location | Maastricht |
Finish location | Berg en Terblijt |
Distance | 255,9km |
Category | WorldTour |
Start time | 10:40 CET |
Finish time | 16:57 CET |
Previous edition | |
2024 winner | Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) |
Mattias Skjelmose outsprints Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel to secure biggest career victory / As it happened
In the biggest win of his career and one of the races of the season, Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) played the perfect hand to defeat both Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) at a thrilling Amstel Gold Race, outsprinting both the Olympic and world champion to the line on Sunday.
Amstel Gold Race Route
The 2025 Amstel Gold Race route will cover 34 climbs along a twisting 255.9km route, and features three ascents of the iconic Cauberg.
Amstel Gold Race start list
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Amstel Gold Race teams
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B&B Hotels
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
- EF Education - EasyPost
- Groupama-FDJ
- INEOS Grenadiers
- Intermarché - Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Team
- Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
- Soudal Quick-Step
- Team Jayco AlUla
- Team Picnic PostNL
- Team Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Team Emirates
- XDS Astana Team
- Israel-PremierTech
- Lotto
- Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
- Tudor Pro Cycling Team
- Unibet Tietema Rockets
- UNO-X Mobility
- Team Totalenergies
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Amstel Gold Race20 April 2025 | Netherlands | WorldTour
Latest Content on the Race
Sean Kelly's Classics Column: 'If Tadej Pogačar stopped racing this year right now, his season would already be a huge success'
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Cobbles vs climbs: The performance factors behind a Classics specialist
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News 'I think it's going to take some time before I actually realise just what happened' says Dane after career-best victory
'Without that fall, I would have won the race' - Remco Evenepoel comes back from mid-race crash to contest three-way sprint at Amstel Gold Race
News 'I will not make the same mistake in Liège' Olympic Champion looks ahead to remaining Ardennes Classics
'Maybe we were too enthusiastic' – Tadej Pogačar comes up short in Amstel Gold Race solo move, proves he's human after all
News World Champion loses three-up sprint to Mattias Skjelmose after being caught 8km from the finish by Remco-Evenepoel-led duo
Inspired by hunting the crown – Can Remco Evenepoel deny Tadej Pogačar a historic Ardennes triple in Olympic vs world champion face-off?
Analysis 'He's probably the best rider that there's been since Merckx, so it's up to us and hunt that position' says Evenepoel
'I can't come in like Remco' – Tom Pidcock fades behind Evenepoel with 'work to do' ahead of Amstel Gold Race title defence
News Brit says he 'just lacked a bit of explosivity' after failing to follow winning move at De Brabantse Pijl
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'I can't come in like Remco' – Tom Pidcock fades behind Evenepoel with 'work to do' ahead of Amstel Gold Race title defence
Brit says he 'just lacked a bit of explosivity' after failing to follow winning move at De Brabantse Pijl -
'The Ardennes races will be a new challenge' - Tadej Pogačar switches from cobbles to the Ardennes climbs at the Amstel Gold Race
UAE Team Emirates-XRG select McNulty, Wellens, Narváez and Sivakov for strong seven-rider line-up -
'If I were a basketball player, my career would have been over' - Remco Evenepoel on recovery from complex shoulder injury as comeback race nears
Belgian says shoulder injury still troubling him, but still aiming for results in Ardennes Classics
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Dutch Cycling Federation gets government assistance to solve police motorbike disruption during NATO Summit
€215,000 released by Lower House for civilian motorcycle traffic controller training 'to ensure that cycling can prepare for a future with less police escort'
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Sean Kelly's Classics Column: 'If Tadej Pogačar stopped racing this year right now, his season would already be a huge success'
Significant collective improvement in Classics by Pogačar's team helps Slovenian dominate from Strade Bianche to Liège-Bastogne-Liège -
Cobbles vs climbs: The performance factors behind a Classics specialist
What separates a Cobbled Classics contender from an Ardennes challenger? Cyclingnews dives into the performance aspects behind the one-day specialists -
Inspired by hunting the crown – Can Remco Evenepoel deny Tadej Pogačar a historic Ardennes triple in Olympic vs world champion face-off?
'He's probably the best rider that there's been since Merckx, so it's up to us and hunt that position' says Evenepoel -
Amstel Gold Race 2025 Start List
Tadej Pogačar is back as Spring Classics head to the Ardennes
