{"id":118259,"date":"2026-04-17T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/7-years-later-van-der-poels-amstel-gold-win-still-astonishes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:10:31","slug":"7-years-later-van-der-poels-amstel-gold-win-still-astonishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/7-years-later-van-der-poels-amstel-gold-win-still-astonishes\/","title":{"rendered":"7 years later, van der Poel\u2019s Amstel Gold win still astonishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday it will be the 60th edition of Amstel Gold Race men\u2019s race, and the 12th for the women. The race takesin the Limburg region of the Netherlands, the beginning of the Ardennes Classics.\u00a0 There are three men racing: or the men, Alpecin-Premier Tech\u2019s Hugo Houle, EF Education-EasyPost\u2019s Michael Leonard. and Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9 (NSN Cycling Team).<\/p>\n<p>There are even more for the women\u2019s race. World champ Magdeleine Valli\u00e8res-Mill (EF Education-Oatly), who has made the next few races some of her big goals for the year, is racing. Plus, there\u2019s Movistar\u2019s Olivia Baril, St Michel \u2013 Preference Home \u2013 Auber93\u2019s Alison Jackson and Clara \u00c9mond and Kiara Lylyk (Mayenne Monbana My Pie).<\/p>\n<h2>The 2019 Amstel Gold men\u2019s race<\/h2>\n<p>The race on Sunday is bound to be exciting,\u00a0 but it will be a tall order for the race to reach the lofty heights that the 2019 men\u2019s achieved, as Mathieu van der Poel sprinted to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/training-guide\/training\/mathieu-van-der-poel-strava-amstel-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spectacular win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amstel Gold Race 2019 | Men&#039;s Highlights | inCycle\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6rA9zou0PU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The day had already seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/alison-jackson-ninth-in-amstel-gold-race-ladies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracker of a women\u2019s race<\/a>, with Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney dropping her competitors on the final climb of Cauberg to take her only WorldTour victory of the year on her way to fourth overall at season\u2019s end. Canada\u2019s Alison Jackson came ninth.<\/p>\n<h2>The incredible finish<\/h2>\n<p>The men\u2019s race was looking like another round of the Julian Alaphilippe versus Jakob Fuglsang tussle, which began at Strade Bianche and would continue to unfurl in Ardennes Week. The duo attacked and went clear on the Kruisberg and (now) former pro, Michael Woods was among the chasers.<\/p>\n<p>Fuglsang couldn\u2019t shake Alaphilippe, and the cat and mouse games they played over the last few kilometres doomed their aspirations. Michal Kwiatkowski managed to bridge from a 10-strong chase group that included van der Poel.<\/p>\n<p>MvdP led the pursuit, which caught the trio with 650m to go. Undaunted by the work he had just completed, van der Poel sprinted up the right hand side and took the famous win, grabbing his head in disbelief. Woods\u2019 teammate Simon Clarke, runner up, was too astonished to be upset and patted van der Poel on the back as they freewheeled past the line. Fuglsang was third; he would win Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge the next Sunday after coming runner-up to Alaphilippe at La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne.<\/p>\n<p>Check back on <em>Canadian Cycling Magazine<\/em> for a full report from both races too. 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The race takesin the Limburg region of the Netherlands, the beginning of the Ardennes Classics.\u00a0 There are three men racing: or the men, Alpecin-Premier Tech\u2019s Hugo Houle, EF Education-EasyPost\u2019s Michael Leonard. and Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9 (NSN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}