Remco Evenepoel won the 60th Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, April 19, 2026, beating defending champion Mattias Skjelmose in a two-man sprint. The official site counts down to the sportive on Saturday, April 17, 2027, which it says is one day before the professional races, so those races are on Sunday, April 18, 2027.
How the last Amstel Gold Race was won
The 2026 race started on the Market Square in Maastricht and ran 257.2 km over 33 climbs. Evenepoel covered it in 5:59:40, an average of 42.906 km/h. It was his first Amstel win, a year after he finished third on his debut. It was also the last race for race director Leo van Vliet, who stepped down after thirty years.
Marco Frigo went solo from the early break of nine and still led by a minute with 50 km to go. On the Kruisberg, Romain Grégoire opened the finale with Evenepoel, Skjelmose, Matteo Jorgenson and Kévin Vauquelin. A crash took out Vauquelin and Jorgenson, and the three left caught Frigo. Evenepoel’s acceleration dropped Frigo, and Grégoire cracked on the second-to-last climb of the Cauberg. Skjelmose held Evenepoel’s wheel on the final Cauberg but could not match his sprint.
| Finish | Rider | Team | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remco Evenepoel | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 5:59:40 |
| 2 | Mattias Skjelmose | Lidl-Trek | +0:01 |
| 3 | Benoît Cosnefroy | UAE Team Emirates XRG | +1:59 |
| 4 | Romain Grégoire | Groupama-FDJ United | +1:59 |
| 5 | Emiel Verstrynge | Alpecin-Premier Tech | +1:59 |
| 6 | Mauro Schmid | Jayco AlUla | +1:59 |
| 7 | Mauri Vansevenant | Soudal Quick-Step | +1:59 |
| 8 | Albert Withen Philipsen | Lidl-Trek | +1:59 |
| 9 | Ewen Costiou | Groupama-FDJ United | +1:59 |
| 10 | Marco Frigo | NSN Cycling | +1:59 |
Benoît Cosnefroy won the sprint for third from a chase group 1:59 back. Frigo still finished 10th.
The women’s race, in its 12th edition, went to Paula Blasi of UAE Team ADQ over 158 km. She attacked on the second-to-last climb of the Cauberg, started the final lap 45 seconds clear and held on. The organiser says she is the first Spanish rider to win the Amstel Gold Race. Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney was second and Demi Vollering third.
Recent Amstel Gold Race winners
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Remco Evenepoel |
| 2025 | Mattias Skjelmose |
| 2024 | Tom Pidcock |
| 2023 | Tadej Pogačar |
| 2022 | Michał Kwiatkowski |
Five editions, five different winners. Skjelmose went from winner in 2025 to runner-up in 2026.
Amstel Gold Race odds
At 19:17 UTC on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, Bovada’s cycling board had one market: the Tour de France 2027 outright. It had nothing for the Amstel Gold Race.
The race is decided on repeated short climbs, and 2026 showed it. The winning move went on the Kruisberg and the Cauberg, not in a bunch sprint. In our view that favors riders who can attack on a short, steep hill and then sprint from a small group, which is how Evenepoel beat Skjelmose by one second. Any Amstel Gold Race predictions for the next edition have to start from that shape of race.
An outright price is a chance written as a payout. +300 implies 25.0%, +800 implies 11.1% and +2500 implies 3.8%. A futures bet is worth making only when you rate a rider’s chance higher than the price does. Top-three and head-to-head markets let you back a rider like Cosnefroy, third from the chase group, without needing him to win.
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