Amstel Gold Race 2025 / You don´t see this on TV / 10 crossings

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Skjelmose stuns Pogacar and Evenepoel with sprint to Amstel Gold Race win
Danish rider pips favourite Tadej Pogacar at the line
Bredewold tops all-Dutch podium in women’s race
Reuters and Guardian sport
Sun 20 Apr 2025 18.07 CEST
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Mattias Skjelmose claimed a shock victory at the men’s Amstel Gold Race as he won a sprint finish against the favourite, Tadej Pogacar, and the Olympic champion, Remco Evenepoel.

It was supposed to be a fight between Pogacar – the world champion – and Evenepoel but Denmark’s Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) had not read the script as he beat Pogacar by the width of a tyre. Evenepoel, who recently returned from serious injuries sustained in a crash, was third.

The race took place over 255km from Maastricht in the Netherlands and concluded in gripping circumstances in Valkenburg. “I was riding for the podium,” Skjelmose said. “Already the podium would be a really good result for me. Of course, you sprint for the best result but I thought I was going to cramp, or see them go into the horizon.“

Pogacar (Emirates-XRG) appeared to have the race won when he built up a 25sec lead with about 40km remaining after going solo at the front and extended it to 30sec.

Skjelmose, 24, was the first to try to catch the three-time Tour de France and multiple Classics winner and was then joined by Belgium’s Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-step). Working together the duo ate into Pogacar’s lead over the final climbs.

There was seemingly nothing to separate the riders in the surge to the line but Skjelmose nosed in front at the last to claim the biggest win of his career.

Wout van Aert (Visma) was fourth, leading a chasing pack 34 seconds back ahead of fifth-placed Michael Matthews (Jayco Alula), Louis Barré in sixth (Intermarché-Wanty), then Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ), Tiesj Benoot (Visma), Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) and Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost) rounded out the top 10. Brandon McNulty (Emirates-XRG) was at the back of that group but finished 11th.