Amstel Gold Race 2024

Published: 12 April 2024

Amstel Gold Race 2024 overview

Amstel Gold Race is a WorldTour one-day race in the hilly southeast of the Netherlands. The race, taking place Sunday, 14 April, marks the beginning of the Ardennes week as the peloton transitions from the cobblestones to the hills.

The men will tackle a twisting, punchy parcours around the Netherlands, featuring 33 climbs and 3,290m of climbing over the long 254km route. Amstel Gold Race is sometimes described as a bowl of spaghetti since the course loops up, down and around on itself constantly. Since the organisers have changed the finish and moved the position of the fearsome Cauberg, the rich parcours has offered a fascinating canvas for exciting racing.

While the defending champion Tadej Pogačar is yet to descend from his altitude camp, the race is headlined by world champion Mathieu van der Poel who will be returning to the site of one of his most memorable triumphs – the legendary come-from-behind, chase-down win at the 2019 Amstel Gold Race. That was the first major road win of Van der Poel’s palmarès, which he has added to in extraordinary fashion since, and with the lack of WorldTour one-day racing in his home country of the Netherlands, Van der Poel will be keen to get back on the top step of Amstel once again.

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Amstel Gold Race 2024 key information

When is the 2024 Amstel Gold Race? Amstel Gold Race will take place on Sunday, 14 April.

Where does the 2024 Amstel Gold Race take place? The race takes place in the southeast of the Netherlands, starting in Maastricht and finishing around Valkenburg.

Who won Amstel Gold Race in 2023? Tadej Pogačar won the 2023 edition of the race with a commanding solo victory ahead of Ben Healy and Tom Pidcock.

When did Amstel Gold Race start? The first edition took place in 1966, and was won by Jean Stablinski.

Who has the most wins at the Amstel Gold Race? Jan Raas has the most Amstel Gold Race titles with five wins in the 1970s and 1980s.

Amstel Gold Race 2024 route: a day of constant action

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The route for the men's Amstel Gold Race 2024

The 2024 Amstel Gold Race will see the peloton take on the familiar twists, turns and thirty three climbs of the traditional parcours as the WorldTour peloton takes on many of the only hills in the Netherlands during the only men’s WorldTour one-day race to take place in the country.

When it comes to overall stats, Amstel Gold Race has far fewer total climbing metres compared to the hilly monuments of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia at around 3,290m of gain over the Monument-worthy distance of 254km.

Nevertheless, those metres of climbing are delivered like no others, with the 33 climbs coming like a six-hour criterium, with constant ups and downs and hundreds of turns and corners. While the action can, in theory, come on any of those climbs, the racing will heat up with 80km to go on the first time up the Cauberg as the race begins the final two circuits around Valkenburg.

After the top of the Cauberg, the race crosses the finish line for the first time before taking on the final 12 climbs of the day on two separate loops. The first of these loops takes on the Geulhemmerberg, Keerderberg and Bemelerberg in quick succession before a small stretch of racing without any proper climbs for the next 13km. Then, the climbing does not stop for the rest of the race as the route returns through the heart of the Dutch hills.

Then, once the riders return to Valkenberg, it is one last punchy 20km circuit to finish the race with the Cauberg kicking things off before the finish line. Then comes the Geulhemmerberg and the Bemelerberg to finish off the climbing before a flat finish awaits to settle the final results on the day.

Which teams are racing the Amstel Gold Race in 2024?

Amstel Gold Race is a WorldTour race and will see the full collection of 18 WorldTour teams take on the race. Six ProTour teams will also be at the race making up the full 24-team peloton of 168 riders.

WorldTour teams:

• Alpecin-Deceuninck
• Arkéa-B&B Hotels
• Astana Qazaqstan
• Bahrain Victorious
• Bora-Hansgrohe
• Cofidis
• Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
• EF Education-EasyPost
• Groupama-FDJ
• Ineos Grenadiers
• Intermarché-Wanty
• Lidl-Trek
• Movistar Team
• Soudal Quick-Step
• dsm-firmenich PostNL
• Jayco AlUla
• Visma-Lease a Bike
• UAE Team Emirates

ProTour teams:

• Israel-Premier Tech
• Lotto-Dstny
• Q36.5 Pro Cycling
• Tudor Pro Cycling
• Team Flanders-Baloise
• Uno-X Mobility

What happened at the Amstel Gold Race 2023?

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Tadej Pogačar celebrates victory in the 2023 Amstel Gold Race

Tadej Pogačar won the 2023 Amstel Gold Race in absolutely dominating fashion, attacking solo with 28km to go and never looking back, taking his first win in the race on his first time racing. Ben Healy had a breakthrough ride to finish second, also in a solo effort, before Tom Pidcock, who was the other rider to match the first Pogačar accelerations, came across the line in third.

Amstel Gold Race's previous winners

2023 Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates

2022 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers

2021 Wout van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma

2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19

2019 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Corendon-Circus

2018 Michael Valgren (Den) Astana Pro Team

2017 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) QuickStep-Floors

2016 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Wanty - Groupe Gobert

2015 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Etixx–Quick-Step

2014 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team

2013 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Saxo–Tinkoff

2012 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Astana

2011 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma–Lotto

2010 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma–Lotto

2009 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Team Katusha

2008 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre

2007 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner

2006 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC

2005 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas–Bianchi

2004 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner

2003 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom

2002 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo

2001 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank

2000 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Telekom

1999 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank

1998 Rolf Järmann (Sui) Casino–AG2R

1997 Bjarne Riis (Den) Team Telekom

1996 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Gewiss Playbus

1995 Mauro Gianetti (Sui) Polti-Vaporetto

1994 Johan Museeuw (Bel) GB-MG Maglificio-Bianchi

1993 Rolf Järmann (Sui) Ariostea

1992 Olaf Ludwig (Ger) Panasonic-Sportlife

1991 Frans Maassen (Ned) Buckler–Colnago–Decca

1990 Adri van der Poel (Ned) Weinmann-SMM Uster-Merckx

1989 Eric van Lancker (Bel) Panasonic-Isostar-Colnago-Agu

1988 Jelle Nijdam (Ned) Superconfex-Yoko-Opel-Colnago

1987 Joop Zoetemelk (Ned) Superconfex–Kwantum–Yoko–Colnago

1986 Steven Rooks (Ned) PDM-Gin MG-Ultima-Concorde

1985 Gerrie Knetemann (Ned) Skil-Sem-Kas-Miko

1984 Jacques Hanegraaf (Ned) Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko

1983 Phil Anderson (Aus) Peugeot-Shell-Michelin

1982 Jan Raas (Ned) TI-Raleigh-Campagnolo

1981 Bernard Hinault (Fra) Renault-Elf-Gitane

1980 Jan Raas (Ned) TI-Raleigh-Creda

1979 Jan Raas (Ned) TI-Raleigh-McGregor

1978 Jan Raas (Ned) TI-Raleigh

1977 Jan Raas (Ned) Frisol-Gazelle-Thirion

1976 Freddy Maertens (Bel) Flandria-Velda

1975 Eddy Merckx (Bel) Molteni

1974 Gerrie Knetemann (Ned) Gan-Mercier-Hutchinson

1973 Eddy Merckx (Bel) Molteni

1972 Walter Planckaert (Bel) Watney-Avia

1971 Frans Verbeeck (Bel) Watney-Avia

1970 Georges Pintens (Bel) Dr. Mann-Grundig

1969 Guido Reybrouck (Bel) Faema

1968 Harry Steevens (Ned) Willem II-Gazelle

1967 Arie den Hartog (Ned) Bic-Hutchinson

1966 Jean Stablinski (Fra) Ford-Hutchinson

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