Final Startlist Dwars door Vlaanderen 2026 | Riders: Wout Van Aert, Mads Pedersen, Filippo Ganna, Jasper Philipsen, Matthew Brennan...

Dwars door Vlaanderen is the fourth out of five World Tour classics in Flanders which make up for the final block of cobbled classics in the region. It takes place on the 1st of April this year and is the final big race before the Tour of Flanders. We take a look at its startlist, which is estimated to start and finish at 11:00 and 15:05CET.

Created back in 1945, Dwars door Vlaanderen was first won by Belgian legend Rik van Steenbergen, immediately cementing the event as a top race in the spring classics scene. The likes of Johan Museuuw leads a wide array of Belgian riders who have won the race through the years.

Tom Boonen, won it once back in 2008 but surprisingly his rival Fabian Cancellara never did so. The race was not always part of the World Tour, but since 2019 it has been won by no less than some of the absolute best in this terrain. Mathieu van der Poel, Dylan van Baarle, Christophe Laporte and Matteo Jorgenson made for an exclusively Visma-Alpecin domination from 2019 to 2024; however in 2025 Visma had three men out front and infamously led the victory slip away to the hands of Neilson Powless.

Download the startlist in A4. The startlist is not going to include Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel; however aside from the 'big two', almost every rider is stepping foot on the Belgian classic in order to try and net a big win before Flanders - as well as getting more race rhythm in the legs.

Wout Van Aert will be present as the leader for Team Visma | Lease a Bike alongside Matthew Brennan and Christophe Laporte; Mads Pedersen and Jonathan Milan will lead the way for Lidl-Trek; Filippo Ganna will be part of INEOS Grenadiers' lineup whilst Jasper Philipsen is going to be the leader of Alpecin-Premier Tech.