{"id":535229,"date":"2026-04-17T02:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:45:19","slug":"how-to-watch-amstel-gold-race-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535229\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch Amstel Gold Race 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to watch Amstel Gold men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s races on April 19 as Evenepoel, Jorgenson, Vollering, Faulkner line up for leg-zapping hilly classic.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this articleListen<img alt=\"How to watch Amstel Gold Race 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/how-watch-paris-roubaix-8.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/how-watch-paris-roubaix-8.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"fp-leadCaption py-tight text-left font-utility text-utility3-size leading-utility3-line-height text-secondary\"> (Photo: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Updated April 16, 2026 02:37AM<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/amstel-gold-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amstel Gold Race<\/a>, it\u2019s the race of a thousand hills that\u2019s called an \u201cArdennes classic\u201d even though it\u2019s not hosted in the Ardennes.<\/p>\n<p>Playing out over a relentlessly spikey course in the Dutch Limburg, the Amstel Gold Race is one of the most overlooked classics on the men\u2019s and women\u2019s calendars.<\/p>\n<p>Expect drama galore on a fiddly parcours littered with steep ramps and tricky descents. A dash up the iconic Cauberg and a reduced sprint of the strongest decide who gets the winner\u2019s oversized beer.<\/p>\n<p>Tadej Poga\u010dar, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot, and Mathieu van der Poel aren\u2019t racing this Sunday, April 19, but who cares?<\/p>\n<p>The startlists for the WorldTour double-header are deep.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/remco-evenepoel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a>, Demi Vollering, Matteo Jorgenson, and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/giant-killer-mattias-skjelmose-pummels-pogacar-and-evenepoel-to-win-amstel-gold-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defending champions<\/a> Mattias Skjelmose and Mischa Bredewold top the bill. USA\u2019s Olympic superstar Kristen Faulkner also has the race <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/faulkner-returns-tour-flanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">circled in her calendar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These prime puncheurs will then travel over to the Belgian Ardennes for quad-sapping brawls next week with Pogi, PFP, and Paul Seixas at La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and Li\u00e8ge Bastogne Li\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Isaac del Toro and Tom Pidcock <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/del-toro-pidcock-uncertain-futures\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are not expected to be racing<\/a> Amstel Gold Race after injury setbacks thwarted their plans.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Amstel Gold Race Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s<br \/>\n<img alt=\"BERG EN TERBLIJT, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 20: Mischa Bredewold of Netherlands and Team SD Worx - Protime celebrates at finish line as race winner during the 11th Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition 2025 a 157.4km one day race from Maastricht to Berg en Terblijt \/ #UCIWWT \/ on April 20, 2025 in Berg en Terblijt, Netherlands. (Photo by Luc Claessen\/Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-943031\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2211107315-1200x800.jpg\"\/>Mischa Bredewold is back at her home race after she attacked late for a palmares-topping win in 2025. (Photo: Luc Claessen\/Getty Images)<br \/>\nRace schedule: Sunday, April 19<\/p>\n<p>Amstel Gold Women\u2019s (158km):\u00a0 Maastricht-Valkenburg \u2013 10:10-14:00 CET approx<br \/>\nAmstel Gold Race (257km): Maastricht-Valkenburg\u2013 11:10 to 16:55 CET approx<\/p>\n<p>Both Amstel Gold Race men\u2019s and women\u2019s will be broadcast live worldwide, and post-event highlights packages will also be available.<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike some of the recent cobblestone classics, not all broadcasters will cover races from the start, so check your local schedules.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Amstel Gold Race men\u2019s and women\u2019s races:<\/p>\n<p>USA: FloBikes<br \/>Canada: FloBikes<br \/>UK: TNT Sports \/ HBO Max<br \/>Australia: SBS<br \/>Worldwide: Local broadcasters include NOS, VRT, RTL, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, TV2, SuperSport, and ESPN.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how to watch Amstel Gold men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s races on April 19 as Evenepoel, Jorgenson, Vollering, Faulkner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[138632,4985,45284,101,184998,114507,51798,72948,184999,45288,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-535229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-audio-true","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-parent_category-road","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tag-amstel-gold-race","13":"tag-tag-matteo-jorgenson","14":"tag-tag-mischa-bredewold","15":"tag-tag-remco-evenepoel","16":"tag-tag-womens-amstel-gold-race","17":"tag-type-article","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535229","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=535229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}