{"id":506841,"date":"2026-04-01T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:36:24","slug":"how-to-watch-the-tour-of-flanders-2026-schedule-start-times-as-tadej-pogacar-and-mathieu-van-der-poel-go-head-to-head-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506841\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Tour of Flanders 2026: Schedule, start times as Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel go head-to-head again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment Pogacar became a two-time Tour of Flanders champion<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

The 110th edition of the Tour of Flanders<\/a> takes place in April, with a stellar line-up including Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) and Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) all set to feature at the start line.\u00a0The one-day classic, which covers 270km of Flanders<\/a> cobbles and climbs, is this season\u2019s second Monument, following Milano-Sanremo.Pogacar <\/a>will be targeting further glory ahead of this year\u2019s event, with the Slovenian having won with a solo attack over Van der Poel in both 2023 and 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Van der Poel is part of a select group of six riders to have won the Monument on three occasions, having famously attacked 45km from the finish to complete a hat-trick of solo victories in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here is everything you need to know about how to watch the 2026 Tour of Flanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When is the Tour of Flanders?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 Tour of Flanders men\u2019s and women\u2019s race will take place on Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n

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Highlights: Philipsen takes In Flanders Fields title for 60th career win<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

How to watch the Tour of Flanders?The men’s race will be live on TNT Sports 3 and HBO Max.<\/a> Coverage begins at 08:30 UK time, with the action getting underway half an hour later. Coverage of the women’s race begins at 14:00 on TNT Sports 4 and HBO Max<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TNT Sports is available across all major TV platforms, offering a line-up of up to four TV channels (TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports 2, TNT Sports 3, TNT Sports 4), and up to six digital or red-button channels (TNT Sports 5 to 10), and TNT Sports Ultimate plus TNT Sports Box Office HD.<\/p>\n

You can subscribe to TNT Sports through HBO Max<\/a>, BT, EE, Sky, and Virgin Media.Who is racing at the Tour of Flanders?<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s race will be headlined by Van der Poel, who could claim a record-breaking fourth victory in Oudenaarde, and Pogacar, chasing a third win in four starts at the iconic race. <\/p>\n

Van Aert, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Dylan van Baarle (Soudal Quick-Step) and Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ United) will also harbour hopes of claiming victory in Flanders.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s race will also feature the world\u2019s best, including Tour de France Femmes champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike) and defending champion Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime). <\/p>\n

Demi Vollering (FDJ United) and Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) are also in the field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment Pogacar became a two-time Tour of Flanders champion Video credit: TNT Sports The 110th edition of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,177771,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-of-flanders-men-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}