Preview Tour of Limburg 2025 | Can Girmay score his first win of the season in Belgium?
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After Paris-Roubaix, the pure classic riders are slowly wrapping up their spring, while the better climbers are preparing for the Ardennes classics. Somewhere in between is the Tour of Limburg, which is now held on the Wednesday before the Amstel Gold Race after a reorganization of the cycling calendar. Who will succeed Dylan Groenewegen in the Belgian classic? IDLProCycling.com provides you with a detailed preview!
Looking at the list of winners of the Tour of Limburg, we see a very diverse picture. Top riders such as Mathieu van der Poel (2014 and 2018), Wout van Aert (2017), and Tim Merlier (2021) are among them, while there are also some lesser-known names such as Olivier Chevalier (2013), Kenny Dehaes (2016), and Eduard-Michel Grosu (2019).
Last year, Dylan Groenewegen ended the Belgian winning streak of three years. The Jayco AlUla sprinter was by far the fastest in the bunch sprint and beat Arnaud De Lie, Alexander Kristoff, and Gerben Thijssen, among others.
Practical information Tour of Limburg 2025
- Hasselt - Tongeren (178.6 km)
- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Participants
- Classification: 1.1
In this article:
- Latest winners
- Course, weather and times
- Favorites
- TV information
Latest winners Tour of Limburg
Course, weather, and times Tour of Limburg 2025
As is customary in the Tour of Limburg, the organization has once again planned a beautiful route between the starting point in Hasselt and the finish in Tongeren. The riders will reach the finish in Tongeren significantly earlier than last year, as the 2025 edition is 'only' 178.6 kilometers long, compared to 195.6 kilometers last year.
An opening phase without too many difficulties takes the riders to the local lap around the finish town, which they must complete three times. The lap includes two cobblestone sections (Manshoven and Op de Kriezel) and two hills (Kolmontberg and Zammelenberg), the same difficulties as last year. At least the hills do not have dizzying gradients. The last section is completed with 11 kilometers to go, giving the sprinters time to set up their trains.
Weather
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Favorites Tour of Limburg 2025
We will never know if it is because of the new date on the calendar, but the fact is that not many big names have included the Tour of Limburg in their schedules this year. One of the few world-class cyclists is Biniam Girmay. The Intermarché-Wanty man will be very optimistic after his successful debut in Paris-Roubaix last Sunday, where he finished fifteenth.
His main competitors will be Kaden Groves and Milan Fretin. The fast riders from Alpecin-Deceuninck and Cofidis, respectively, will not be intimidated by the few difficulties on the route, and both have very strong final sprints. Cofidis has another secret weapon with Stanislaw Aniolkowski, who finished third in 2023.
Any other sprinters? Yes, although they may be of a slightly different level than the sprinters mentioned above. Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), who recently beat Groenewegen twice in the Tour of Hellas, hopes his spring form is still there. The same goes for spring sensation Lukas Kubis (Unibet Tietema Rockets). Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek), Timothy Dupont (Tartaletto-Isorex), Milan Menten (Lotto), Jason Tesson (TotalEnergies), and Simon Dehairs (Alpecin-Deceuninck) will also be showing up at the start in Hasselt.
Who else? Certainly! The starting list includes several dangerous outsiders in the category of attackers, such as Toms Skujins, Edward Theuns (both Lidl-Trek), Tibor Del Grosso (Alpecin-Deceuninck), and Guillermo Thomas Silva (Caja Rural).
Favorites Tour of Limburg 2025, according to IDLProCycling.com
Top favorite: Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty)
TV broadcast Tour of Limburg 2025
If you want to follow the Tour of Limburg on Wednesday, you can go to Eurosport or HBO Max streaming platform from 3:30 PM local time (09:30 AM EDT). If you prefer to watch with a Belgian commentator, you can switch to VRT 1 from 3:15 PM local time (09:15 AM EDT).
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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