{"id":510829,"date":"2026-04-03T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510829\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:34:07","slug":"startlist-tour-of-flanders-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510829\/","title":{"rendered":"Startlist Tour of Flanders 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second monument of the season will take place on the 5th of April. That is the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-des-flandres\" title=\"Tour of Flanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Flanders<\/a>, the queen of the Flandrien classics and the one in which the riders go through the most big cobbled &#8216;bergs&#8217; in the region. We take a look at the race&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/startlist\" title=\"Startlist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">startlist<\/a>.The &#8216;Ronde van Vlaanderen&#8217; was created in 1913 and won won by Paul Deman in its first edition. It is the greatest race in a region where cycling is king, marked by the cobbled climbs and traditional landscapes. Seven riders share a three-victory record, including top figures of multiple generations such as Johan Museeuw, Tom Boonen, Fabian Cancellara and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mathieu-van-der-poel\" title=\"Mathieu van der Poel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu van der Poel<\/a>. But so many other top riders have won here&#8230;Rik van Steenbergen, Rik van Looy, Tom Simpson, Eddy Merckx, Roger de Vlaeminck, Jan Raas, Adrie van der Poel, Eddy Planckaerts, Michele Bartoli, Peter van Petegem, just to name a few&#8230; In the more modern cycling we&#8217;ve had Tom Boonen (2005, 2006 and 2012); Fabian Cancellara (2010, 2013 and 2014) and Mathieu van der Poel (2020, 2022 and 2024) win on three occasions&#8230; Between them legendary figures such as Stijn Devolder, Alexander Kristoff, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert, Niki Terpstra, Alberto Bettiol, Kasper Asgreen&#8230; And the newest addition to the palmar\u00e8s: <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a>. In 2023 the Slovenian won with a solo attack over Mathieu van der Poel and<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/revenge-for-tadej-pogacar-world-champ-incredibly-turns-the-tables-on-mathieu-van-der-poel-to-take-solo-victory-at-tour-of-flanders-2025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> in 2025 he did it once again in a race that featured a spectacular finale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second monument of the season will take place on the 5th of April. That is the Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,99800,101,113698,8782,110664,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":{"0":"post-510829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-startlist","12":"tag-tadej-pogacar","13":"tag-tour-of-flanders","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wout-van-aert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510829","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=510829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}