Amstel Gold Race 2022

Founded in 1966, the Amstel Gold Race marks the point in the calendar where the cobbled classic specialists hand the baton over to the puncheurs and ...

There are multiple reasons why Mathieu van der Poel is the firmest of favourites to win today’s race. We join the race just shy of 150km in, with 100km and 14 brutal bergs to race. Tim Wellens comes to the front and Christophe Laporte marks him well(ens). They briefly have a gap but it's quickly snuffed out. Third is the absence of Wout van Aert, still sidelined by illness. The pace is really high now, with riders struggling just to stay on the wheel. Tim Wellens is back on the front on the descent. We have a selection of eleven riders at the front with Van der Poel “lucky” says Carlton to be among them. Mohoric among the riders to have missed out on the selection. "Are they clutching at straws at the moment?" With his team-mate on the march, Pidcock can just sit on, which means Van der Poel has to take it up himself. They're about to go through the finish for the last time and it's really kicking off now… The Polish man has a lead of just over a corner.

The Italian attacked after the Cauberg and rode the final 1.7 km solo to take her first WorldTour win.

The Italian immediately got a gap, with Vollering looking to her teammate Ashleigh Moolman Pasio to chase. With so many heavy hitters the breakaway group was unable to cooperate and the peloton caught up to them. SD Worx was particularly keen to bring the race back together before the final ascent of the Cauberg.

Italian rider wins with a perfectly timed attack winning solo ahead of a group of favourites.

This instigated a period of aggression, moves from Van Dijk and Holden putting thinning the bunch. As the final lap developed the peloton swelled, but with SD Worx doing the work, the lead began to drop slowly. A large peloton hit the bottom, and equally predictably Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) attacked at the bottom. The circuit’s first climb, the Geulemerberg brought more aggression, Henderson’s Jumbo-Visma team mate and Anouska Koster leading another group away, before Rooijakkers went solo. Cavalli is one of the most promising riders in the bunch. SD Worx then played their first card, Niamh Fisher-Black going, with Marlen Reusser then attacking over the top. Le Col-Wahoo’s Lizzie Holden was also aggressive, attacking on each of the final two laps. Van Vleuten though, continued to ride, leading another breakaway up the road. While the gap was closed she was not caught, Liane Lippert (DSM) taking the final podium place. Not only did she time Sunday’s attack to perfection last year she was perhaps unlucky to finish sixth at last year’s Giro d'Italia Donne after a stellar performance in the mountains. With Ashleigh Moolman Pasio keeping the pace high for team mate Vollering, it eased when no one responded to her flicked elbow. It was a huge effort from the Dutchwoman, but she was unusually unable to gap her rivals, Lippert glued to her wheel the entire climb.

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Van Vleuten became the fourth. Cavalli took advantage of the moment and made an attack. It turns out that Vollering has the fastest two legs in the sprint. The moment they were caught, Van Vleuten gave the order again. Garcia wanted to drive to the trio, but got stuck in the famous Patate chase. Every time the seven seemed to have been caught, they ran again.

Ineos Grenadiers rider wins the Ardennes classic for a second time by the barest of margins.

The leaders had an advantage of just 22 seconds as they summitted the Bemelerberg, the final climb of the day, with 6.5km to go. With 20km to go, and a numerical advantage in their favour, Kwiatkowski attacked as they crossed the finish line for the penultimate time. Kwiatkowski and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), alongside van der Poel, were joined in the lead group by Tiesj Benoot, Kasper Asgreen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Victorious), Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team), Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) and Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange-Jayco). But it was the Ineos Grenadiers that put the final nail in the coffin for the remaining breakaway riders on the steep slopes of the Kruisberg and Eyserbosweg. Rastelli was dropped from the front group as their advantage diminished to 90 seconds, just as Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Soudal) and Nathan Van Hooydonck (Jumbo-Visma) attacked from the peloton. Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) won Amstel Gold Race by the narrowest of margins, beating Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team) on the line by just a few inches.

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Kwiatkowski simply timed it better, with the Frenchman lunging for a phantom line half a wheel too late. But when Kwiatkowski squeezed the throttle to the ring of the bell and found himself out front, he pressed ahead. The Amstel Gold Race is open to a much wider cast of stars, each one of them with different ways of winning and different strengths to help them achieve it. The Polish former world champion was a victor here in 2015 when riding in the rainbow jersey for Quick-Step and has since become one of the most versatile riders in the peloton. On paper, unlike most of his rivals, Kwiatkowski could have won this race in any number of different ways. Kwiatkowski looked like he knew it too.

Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) won his second Amstel Gold Race by a few centimetres with a well-timed lunge across the line.

The scenes beyond the finish line looked very familiar as Kwiatkowski and Cosnefroy came to a stop metres from one another, waiting for the result. The 2015 winner came alongside Cosnefroy very late and the pair crossed the line together. The group had a buffer of about 25 seconds going into the final lap and, bored of all the stalling, Kwiatkowski jumped clear as the bell rang.

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The answer was Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroen). Cosnefroy was careful not to take anyone with him, though, and made it across to the experienced rider on his own. A sharp weave across the road and Cosnefroy launched his sprint. With the final ascent of the Cauberg looming, often a launchpad for winning moves in this race, it could only ever be brief. On the Keutenberg, with 34.5km remaining, Kwiatkowski raised the level once again. Into the final 50 and the riders of Ineos Grenadiers took charge. Gradients into the high teens caused riders to fall away in all parts of the race. Through the final 30km, Kwiatkowski’s team-mate and the second favourite for the race, Tom Pidcock, was in a position to do less than others, save his legs for the sprint that never came. A thrilling finish to the men’s Amstel Gold race on Sunday saw Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Ineos Grenadiers) narrowly edge out Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroen Team) for the win. The second trip up the Gulperbergweg, which came with one fifth of the race remaining, proved especially caustic. With the pace increasing each climb, though topographically much the same as the last, had an accumulative effect on riders legs and heads. Twenty kilometres later that group was reduced by a seventh, as Davide Gabburo (Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè) dropped back to the bunch. With everyone watching him, Mathieu van der Poel was left with it all to do.

Poland's Michal Kwiatkowski won the Amstel Gold classic on Sunday for the second time in his career after being judged the winner following a thrilling ...

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Images of joy, despair, hills, beer and a photo finish from the men's and women's editions of the 2022 Amstel Gold Race, won by Michał Kwiatkowski and Marta ...

There could be no complaints about the winner. Demi Vollering won the sprint for second. The 2022 Amstel Gold Race delivered two thrilling races.