Gent-Wevelgem Women 2025 route

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WEVELGEM BELGIUM MARCH 24 LR Lorena Wiebes of The Netherlands and Lotte Kopecky of Belgium and Team SD WorxProtime compete during the 13rd GentWevelgem in Flanders Fields 2024 Womens Elite a 1712km one day race from Ieper to Wevelgem UCIWWT on March 24 2024 in Wevelgem Belgium Photo by Luc ClaessenGetty Images
Lorena Wiebes and Lotte Kopecky both of SD Worx-Protime tackle a cobbled climb (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Gent-Wevelgem Women route summary
Distance169.1 kilometres
StartMenin Gate, Ypres
FinishVanackerestraat, Wevelgem
Start time13:20 CET
Finish time17:47 CET

The 2025 edition of the Gent-Wevelgem Women's WorldTour race uses the same course as in previous years, starting under the Menin Gate in remembrance of soldiers killed on the Flanders Fields during World War I. 

The race is slightly shorter by 2.1km of official roll-out from Ypres. The first climb comes after 96.5km on a large loop that includes four ascents: the Scherpenberg, Baneberg, Monteberg and the first trip over the Kemmelberg from the slightly easier Belvedère side comes at kilometre  113.1.

Another lap of the circuit sends the women's peloton again over the Scherpenberg and Baneberg, with the final steeper ascent of the Kemmelberg from Ossuaire with 34.3km to go.

Gent-Wevelgem Women 2025 Climbs

  • Scherpenberg, kilometre 96.5 (72.4km to go)
  • Baneberg, kilometre 105.3 (63.6km to go)
  • Monteberg, kilometre 111.2 (57.7km to go)
  • Kemmelberg (Belvedère), kilometre 113.1 (55.8km to go)
  • Scherpenberg, kilometre 120.5 (48.4km to go)
  • Baneberg, kilometre 129.3 (39.6km to go)
  • Kemmelberg (Ossuaire), kilometre 134.6 (34.3km to go)
Lyne Lamoureux
Lyne Lamoureux

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