{"id":540300,"date":"2026-04-20T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:48:11","slug":"evenepoel-puts-sprint-demons-to-rest-with-victory-over-skjelmose-at-amstel-gold-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540300\/","title":{"rendered":"Evenepoel puts sprint demons to rest with victory over Skjelmose at Amstel Gold Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/corvos-amstel-2026-evenepoel-wins.jpg\" alt=\"Evenepoel puts sprint demons to rest with victory over Skjelmose at Amstel Gold Race\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">One year after coming up short, Remco Evenepoel outsprinted reigning champion Mattias Skjelmose after the pair went clear with 22 km to go.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kit Nicholson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/profile-pic-KN-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remco Evenepoel had wrongs to right after he and Tadej Poga\u010dar under-estimated Mattias Skjelmose at the 2025 Amstel Gold Race, but even with last year&#8217;s demons riding on his slim shoulders, the Belgian had confidence in his sprint as he rode to the line with his Danish rival, and this time, he was rewarded with victory \u2013 his first major one-day win since the Olympics, and first WorldTour since San Sebasti\u00e1n in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Erstwhile rivals Evenepoel and Skjelmose had responded to an attack by Romain Gr\u00e9goire 42 km from the finish which had broken a handful of favourites off the peloton, with two riders from the nine-man breakaway still up ahead,\u00a0just about. A nasty crash for K\u00e9vin Vauquelin, Matteo Jorgenson and breakaway rider Huub Artz then allowed Gr\u00e9goire, Evenepoel and Skjelmose to go it alone. The trio soon caught and passed last surviving attacker Marco Frigo, and Gr\u00e9goire&#8217;s challenge ended on the Cauberg, leaving the Belgian-Danish duo to their sprint rematch.<\/p>\n<p>The race for the last step of the podium unfolded almost two minutes after the leaders, with Frigo trying a late flyer but succumbing to the charging group. In the end, Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy was able to secure the second Amstel podium finish of his career having finished second to Micha\u0142 Kwiatkowski in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>[race_result id=9 stage_id=0 count=10 gc=0 year=2026]<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"69e4f1b3f0f610ac4f0b71dd\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/amstel-gold-race\/\" title=\"Amstel Gold Race\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29000 amstel-gold-race\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amstel Gold Race<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/remco-evenepoel\/\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2946b remco-evenepoel\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing One year after coming up short, Remco Evenepoel outsprinted reigning champion Mattias Skjelmose after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540300","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=540300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}