Who Won The 2026 Tour Of Flanders Men’s Race? See The Results Here

World champion Tadej Pogacar won a record-equaling third Tour of Flanders on Sunday after dropping his main rival Mathieu van der Poel with 18 kilometers to ride.

Van der Poel was himself aiming for a new record fourth victory in the second Monument of the season, but instead, Pogacar made it two from two in the prestigious one-day classics, having won Milan-San Remo last month. He also became the eighth rider in history to win the Tour of Flanders three times, a list that includes Van der Poel (2020, 2022, 2024).

Four-time Tour de France winner Pogacar, 27, now has 12 Monument victories, putting him clear in second on the all-time list behind only the great Eddy Merckx with 19.

Pogacar has raced three times this year, winning all three, and if he wins Paris-Roubaix next weekend, he will join an elite band as just the fourth man to win all five Monuments after Merckx and fellow Belgians Rik Van Looy and Roger De Vlaeminck.

“It was a really crazy race today, I don’t know what to say: super-hard from I don’t know which kilometer,” Pogacar told Belgian TV. “I don’t race too much, so when I race there is pressure to win. So far, everything went perfect for me, so I can be more than happy. Coming next week to Roubaix, I can go motivated, but I try to enjoy the cobbles.”

On his Roubaix debut last year, he finished second to Van der Poel, who won for the third year in a row.

Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, on his Flanders debut, held on for an impressive third place ahead of fellow Belgian Wout van Aert, after 278 kilometers and more than six hours riding around Flanders over punchy climbs and numerous cobbled sections.

Tadej Pogacar A Cut Above The Rest

In what was billed as a battle between four of the biggest stars in cycling, Pogacar once again proved he is a cut above the others, although Van der Poel — one of the greatest cobbled classics specialists of all time — pushed him all the way.

Pogacar had dropped all his rivals bar Van der Poel and Evenepoel with an acceleration on the second of three ascents up the Oude Kwaremont climb with 57 kilometers to race.

Evenepoel was left behind on the very next climb, the Paterberg, and though he kept within a handful of seconds at first, he would gradually drift backwards, finishing more than a minute after Pogacar.

Pogacar and Van der Poel rode together for the better part of 40 kilometers, before the Slovenian put in his race-winning move on the final ride up the Oude Kwaremont.

He crested that with a six-second advantage, but Dutchman Van der Poel’s resistance was broken, and he would only lose more time before the finish.

A 13-man break, including Mongolian Sainbayaryn Jambaljamts, escaped in the first 40 kilometers and built up a maximum lead of about five and a half minutes, thanks in part to the peloton being held up at a level crossing.

That lead stayed fairly stable for more than 100 kilometers, before the peloton upped its pace.

With just over 100 kilometers left, Pogacar’s teammates put the hammer down on the Molenberg climb and caused a split that saw a group of about 15 riders containing the favorites form a chase group.

The favorites caught the breakaway group with just under 80 kilometers left to ride, by which time their lead over the peloton had risen over one minute.

From then on, it was a question of whether anyone would be able to stay with Pogacar over the remaining climbs to the finish — and no one could.

In the women’s race, European champion Demi Vollering made an identical move to Pogacar, dropping her rivals and cresting the Oude Kwaremont with a 19-second lead over Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Puck Pieterse.

The Dutch rider would not be caught, coming home at the end of the 164-kilometer race with a 45-second gap to Ferrand-Prevot, who easily pipped Pietrse in the sprint for second.

It was the 2023 Tour de France Femmes winner’s third Monument victory, having won Liege-Bastogne-Liege twice.

Record three-time winner Lotte Kopecky had to settle for fourth.

2026 Tour Of Flanders – Men Top 25 FinishersTadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) – 6:20:07Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) – 6:20:41Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe) – 6:21:18Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 6:22:11Mads Pedersen (Lidl – Trek) – 6:22:55Jasper Stuyven (Soudal Quick-Step) – 6:24:35Florian Vermeersch (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) – 6:24:35Matej Mohorič (Bahrain – Victorious) – 6:24:37Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 6:25:29Gianni Vermeersch (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe) – 6:25:29Tim van Dijke (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe) – 6:25:33Aimé De Gendt (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 6:25:41Oliver Naesen (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 6:25:46Laurence Pithie (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe) – 6:25:46Alec Segaert (Bahrain – Victorious) – 6:25:46Valentin Madouas (Groupama – FDJ United) – 6:25:46Per Strand Hagenes (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 6:25:46Michael Valgren (EF Education – EasyPost) – 6:25:46Brent Van Moer (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 6:25:46Daan Hoole (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 6:25:50Lewis Askey (NSN Cycling Team) – 6:26:31Romain Grégoire (Groupama – FDJ United) – 6:26:31Axel Huens (Groupama – FDJ United) – 6:26:49Niklas Larsen (XDS Astana Team) – 6:26:49Alberto Bettiol (Unibet Rose Rockets) – 6:26:512026 Tour Of Flanders – Women Top 25 FinishersDemi Vollering (FDJ United – SUEZ) – 4:16:37Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:17:19Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Premier Tech) – 4:17:19Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx – Protime) – 4:17:41Zoe Bäckstedt (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) – 4:17:41Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ) – 4:17:41Silvia Persico (UAE Team ADQ) – 4:17:44Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) – 4:17:44Mischa Bredewold (Team SD Worx – Protime) – 4:18:35Franziska Koch (FDJ United – SUEZ) – 4:18:35Noemi Rüegg (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:18:35Lieke Nooijen (EF Education-Oatly) – 4:18:35Elisa Balsamo (Lidl – Trek) – 4:20:22Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla Jayco) – 4:21:32Elise Chabbey (FDJ United – SUEZ) – 4:21:32Fleur Moors (Lidl – Trek) – 4:21:32Shirin van Anrooij (Lidl – Trek) – 4:21:32Célia Gery (FDJ United – SUEZ) – 4:21:32Cat Ferguson (Movistar Team) – 4:23:30Millie Couzens (Fenix-Premier Tech) – 4:23:30Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) – 4:23:30Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance – Soudal Team) – 4:23:30Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) – 4:23:30Liane Lippert (Movistar Team) – 4:23:30Quinty Ton (Liv AlUla Jayco) – 4:23:30Catch All The Best Races, Highlights, Insight, News And More On FloBikes

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