Participants E3 Saxo Classic 2025 | No Pogacar, De Lie, or Narváez, so who’s competing against van der Poel and Van Aert?
CyclingThursday, 27 March 2025 at 09:56
After a spectacular Milan-Sanremo, we can look forward to another fantastic race on Friday. The E3 Saxo Classic is the first significant event before the Tour of Flanders, and this year's race in Harelbeke will again feature a strong field of participants.
Two-time winner of the E3 Saxo Classic, Wout van Aert, is returning in the Belgian spring classic after a training camp in Tenerife. In the battle for victory, he will be assisted by Tiesj Benoot and Matteo Jorgenson, among others, who won Paris-Nice for the second year in a row earlier this month. These three names seem to be the big stand-outs on the provisional start list of Team Visma | Lease a Bike.
But there are even more big names on the provisional start list. Alpecin-Deceuninck will start with Milan-Sanremo winner Mathieu van der Poel as their leader. Last year, he rode solo to victory in the E3 Saxo Classic. Tadej Pogacar will not participate, as he added Paris-Roubaix to his program next week.
Confirmed selections and ambitions E3 Saxo Classic 2025
- Picnic PostNL (Julius van den Berg)
- Cofidis (Jan Maas, Aimé de Gendt)
- Arkea-B&B Hotels (Luca Mozzato)
- EF Education-EasyPost (Neilson Powless, Vincenzo Albanese)
- UAE Emirates-XRG (Tim Wellens, Florian Vermeersch)
- Decathlon AG2R (Oliver Naesen and Aurelien Paret-Peintre)
- INEOS Grenadiers (Filippo Ganna, Josh Tarling and Ben Turner)
- TotalEnergies (Alexys Brunel and Anthony Turgis)
- Lotto (Jenno Berckmoes and Brent Van Moer)
Participants E3 Saxo Classic 2025
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Latest Comments
- Such negative comments that are truly inappropriate and actually ridiculous. He sounds like an old man, bitter that he can't race anymore. Why can't he just be gracious? Or just shut up. Instead of howling for attention, in such a rude manner. Must be Dementia creeping in. We are all living in the Now. Records are there, and some are being broken, some are unapproachable. If he doesn't like it, and it makes him sick, maybe he ought start watching some other sport. Don't want the old mans health to be upset.
reemmo031-03-2025 - Roger De Vlaeminck inspires me to create a new beer: "Bitter Old Twat Belgian".JackInhof31-03-2025
- Shoot, I'll ride it for 1/10 of what his pay for that day is😅Veganpotter30-03-2025
- What is this? The Lance Armstrong daily cheaters channel? I could care less about Johan and Lance the seven times cheater. Greg Lemond was right all along, Why don't you write about that instead of these two knuckleheads.velodrone28-03-2025
- Are we all doomed to hear from Lance Armstrong and Johan bruneel until the end of time? It's not enough the stain they left on cycling? Do we have to see that shadow forever?bigyakman26-03-2025
- I am not sure if it is the hardest to win. In Flanders and Roubaix well before the finish the Peleton will be decimated and the race will normally be won by the best rider of the day or maybe 2nd or 3rd in case of a mechanical or unlucky break especially in case of Roubaix. In San Remo just before the finish there will still be several riders in contention and they are hard to ditch. For the best riders it is a race hard to win since it is not so selective. But if you are not a top 5 rider but still a top 10 rider this race is your best change to win. You will see more Milan San remo Winners with only 1 monument win than any other monumentsJoostmehrtens19-03-2025
- "fap fap fap oh Lance oh oh OHHHHHHH" again. Does he pay you to dredge up people with nice things to say about him? He was an giant a$$hole to people. It is a fact. Whatever his contrition about the doping, he is unapologetic about being a giant a$$hole to people. (Why yes, I do only login to complain. *I* am however only a giant a$$hole to people who laud giant a$$holes.)ericjensenridesbikes25-02-2025
- Remco is still very young. And injuries can absolutely keep you from overdoing it and getting worse. The recent Remco accident didn't keep him from being able to ride a recumbent inside. Wout's knee is a different story thoughVeganpotter23-01-2025
- Van der Poel style is winning by a half a lap and leading the race from the end of the second lap.
Barnes127420-01-2025 - If she thinks talent alone will put her there she will not see many podium finishes much less a GC finish.....work as a team utilizing tactics to consistently be at the top.Germanrazor10-01-2025