>> Across Flanders 2023: Here goes's to the race report
Across Flanders (Dwars door Vlaanderen in Flemish) is a professional cycling race that takes place in the Flemish part of Belgium and for some time now has been held on the Wednesday before the Tour of Flanders - the most important Flemish classicist.
Across Flanders 2023: The most important information
- Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Distance: 183.7 kilometres (men), 114.9 kilometres (women)
- Edition: 77th men, 11th women
- Official start: 12:20 men, 14:55 women
- Finish: ~16:30 - 16:56 men, 17:47 - 18:06 women
- Last year's winner: Mathieu van der Poel
- Last year's winner: Chiara Consonni
- German winners: Olaf Ludwig (1992)
Across Flanders: First edition in 1945 as Quer durch Belgien
The history of the race goes back to the first organisation in 1945. Today's Dwars door Vlaanderen was created under the name Dwars door Belgie (Across Belgium). The Belgian Rik van Steenbergen triumphed at the premiere. In the early years, between 1946 and 1964 - with the exception of 1948 - what is now known as the Cross of Flanders was a two-day stage race. It took until 1964 before a foreign rider, the Dutchman Piet van Est, was able to enter his name in the list of winners. In a total of 76 editions, the race was only won 22 times by a non-Belgian. A total of 14 riders have won twice and are therefore record winners; there is also a German winner: Olaf Ludwig (1992). The women's race at Quer durch Flandern has existed since 2012; the record winner is Amy Pieters from the Netherlands with three victories.
Since 2000, Dwars door Belgie has been called Dwars door Vlaanderen (Across Flanders). For a long time, the race took its place in the cycling calendar ahead of the E3 Harelbeke, Ghent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders. In 2017, the competition was upgraded and included in the UCI World Tour. In 2018, Dwars door Vlaanderen was given a new date, which it still holds today: between Ghent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders.
Across Flanders 2023: The route
Quer durch Flandern 2023 is similar in its characteristics to the other Flemish spring classics. The short, steep climbs in the Flemish Ardennes, which are often garnished with cobblestones - the so-called Hellingen - are also striking here. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem. Both towns are only around 30 kilometres apart as the crow flies. However, the professional cyclists have a little further to go: 183.7 kilometres are on the programme. Eleven slip roads - two fewer than in 2022 - and eight cobbled sections have to be mastered.
After the gallop up Volkegemberg, the triple combination of Hotond, Knokteberg and Kortekeer follows at some distance. The riders then have a further 15 kilometres or so to prepare for the next climbs: Berg Ten Houte, Kanarieberg, Knokteberg again and Hotond could provide a preliminary decision at the 2023 Cross Flanders. Maria-Borrestraat and Ladeuze follow shortly afterwards, before a final lap around the finish town of Waregem with Herlegemstraat (twice) and Nokereberg (also twice). From the crest of the final climb, it is less than ten kilometres to the finish.
The slipways
- Volkegemberg | kilometre 67.8
- Hotond | kilometre 84.7
- Knokteberg - Trieu | kilometre 92.2
- Kortekeer | kilometre 99.9
- Berg Ten Houte | kilometre 113.7
- Kanarieberg | kilometre 119.3
- Knokteberg - Trieu | kilometre 132.3
- Hotond | Kilometres Kilometres 135.9
- Ladeuze | kilometre 147.1
- Nokereberg | kilometre 163.4
- Nokere | kilometre 176
The cobblestone sections
- Varenstraat | kilometre 51.7
- Holleweg | kilometre 68.3
- Maria-Borrestraat | kilometre 102
- Maria-Borrestraat | kilometre 142.5
- Doorn | kilometres | 155.9
- Huisepontweg | kilometre 158.4
- Herlegemstraat | kilometre 166.1
- Herlegemstraat | kilometre 178.9
Across Flanders 2023: TV broadcast & live stream of Dwars door Vlaanderen
With Eurosport 1 Cross Flanders 2023 will take place on Wednesday from 14:05 broadcast. If you are looking for a live stream, you will find it on Discovery+ and GCN+ (both via paid subscription). The women's race will only be streamed digitally.
Across Flanders 2023: Start list
- 1 Jasper Philipsen
- 2 Quinten Hermans
- 3 Dries De Bondt
- 4 Edward Planckaert
- 5 Seal Ghys
- 6 Ramon Sinkeldam
- 7 Fabio van den Bossche
- 11 Greg van Avermaet
- 12 Pierre Gautherat
- 13 Lawrence Naesen
- 14 Oliver Naesen
- 15 Damien Touze
- 16 Valentin Retailleau
- 17 Stan Dewulf
- 21 Igor Chzhan
- 22 Yevgeniy Gidich
- 23 Yevegniy Fedorov
- 24 Dmitriy Gruzdev
- 25 Nurbergen Nurlykhassym
- 26 Martin Laas
- 27 Gleb Syritsa
- 31 Nils Politt
- 32 Shane Archbold
- 33 Patrick Gamper
- 34 Marco Haller
- 35 Jonas Koch
- 36 Danny van Poppel
- 37 Jordi Meeus
- 41 Andrea Pasqualon
- 42 Matevz Govekar
- 43 Filip Maciejuk
- 44 Kamil Gradek
- 45 Dusan Rajovic
- 46 Cameron Scott
- 47 Fred Wright
- 51 Pascal Ackermann
- 52 Sjoerd Bax
- 53 Mikkel Bjerg
- 54 Ryan Gibbons
- 55 Vegard Stake lengths
- 56 Matteo Trentin
- 57 Tim Wellens
- 61 Edoardo Affini
- 62 Tiesj Benoot
- 63 Olav Kooij
- 64 Timo Roosen
- 65 Tosh van der Sande
- 66 Tim van Dijke
- 67 Christophe Laporte
- 71 Thomas Pidcock
- 72 Kim Heiduk
- 73 Jhonatan Narvaez
- 74 Filippo Ganna
- 75 Ben Turner
- 76 Magnus Sheffield
- 77 Connor Swift
- 81 Julian Alaphilippe
- 82 Davide Ballerini
- 83 Jannik Steimle
- 84 Bert van Lerberghe
- 85 Tim Merlier
- 86 Casper Pedersen
- 87 Stan van Tricht
- 91 Stefan Küng
- 92 Lewis Askey
- 93 Kevin Geniets
- 94 Olivier Le Gac
- 95 Fabian Lienhard
- 96 Valentin Madouas
- 97 Jake Stewart
- 101 Mads Pedersen
- 102 Emils Liepins
- 103 Mathias Vacek
- 104 Daan Hoole
- 105 Alex Kirsch
- 106 Jasper Stuyven
- 107 Edward Theuns
- 111 Alberto Bettiol
- 112 Stefan Bissegger
- 113 Tom Scully
- 114 Mikkel Frölich Honore
- 115 Jonas Rutsch
- 116 Neilson Powless
- 117 Julius van den Berg
- 121 Michael Matthews
- 122 Blake Quick
- 123 Luka Mezgec
- 124 Kelland O'Brien
- 125 Zdenek Stybar
- 126 Luke Durbridge
- 127 Elmar Reinders
- 131 Fernando Gaviria
- 132 Vinicius Rangel
- 133 Mathias Norsgaard
- 134 Juri Hollmann
- 135 Oier Lazkano
- 136 Lluis Mas
- 137 Ivan Romeo
- 141 John Degenkolb
- 142 Pavel Bittner
- 143 Nils Eekhoff
- 144 Leon Heinschke
- 145 Sam Welsford
- 146 Sean Flynn
- 147 Kevin Vermaerke
- 151 Piet Allegaert
- 152 Simone Consonni
- 153 Wesley Kreder
- 154 Christophe Noppe
- 155 Axel Zingle
- 156 Alexis Renard
- 157 Maximilian Walscheid
- 161 Jenthe Biermans
- 162 David Dekker
- 163 Kevin Ledanois
- 164 Matis Louvel
- 165 Daniel McLay
- 166 Luca Mozzato
- 167 Andrii Ponomar
- 171 Aime De Gendt
- 172 Gerben Thijssen
- 173 Hugo Page
- 174 Baptiste Planckaert
- 175 Taco van der Hoorn
- 176 Sven Erik Byström
- 177 Adrien Petit
Lotto-Dstny
- 181 Arnaud De Lie
- 182 Cedric Beullens
- 183 Pascal Eenkhorn
- 184 Jasper De Buyst
- 185 Caleb Ewan
- 186 Frederik Frison
- 187 Sebastien Grignard
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- 191 Sep Vanmarcke
- 192 Hugo Houle
- 193 Krists Neilands
- 194 Guillaume Boivin
- 195 Jens Reynders
- 196 Tom van Asbroeck
- 197 Omer Goldstein
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
- 201 Alexander Kristoff
- 202 Louis Bendixen
- 203 Kristoffer Halvorsen
- 204 William Blume Levy
- 205 Martin Urianstad
- 206 Rasmus Tiller
- 207 Sören Waerenskjold
TotalEnergies
- 211 Edvald Boasson Hagen
- 212 Dries van Gestel
- 213 Thomas Bonnet
- 214 Sandy Dujardin
- 215 Emilien Jeanniere
- 216 Geoffrey Soupe
- 217 Anthony Turgis
Bingoal WB
- 221 Guillaume van Keirsbulck
- 222 Ceriel Desal
- 223 Louis Blouwe
- 224 Julian Mertens
- 225 Ludovic Robeet
- 226 Luca van Boven
- 227 Dorian De Maeght
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
- 231 Jack Bauer
- 232 Filippo Colombo
- 233 Kamil Malecki
- 234 Alessandro Fedeli
- 235 Matteo Moschetti
- 236 Nicolo Parisini
- 237 Nickolas Zukowsky
Team Flanders-Baloise
- 241 Alex Colman
- 242 Lindsay De Vylder
- 243 Tuur Dens
- 244 Gilles De Wilde
- 245 Noah Vandenbranden
- 246 Vincent van Hemelen
- 247 Ward Vanhoof
Dwars door Vlaanderen: Women's race
In 2012, the organiser Flanders Classics introduced a competition for women at Dwars door Vlaanderen. In 2023, the women will ride over eight slip roads and seven cobbled sections around Waregem. Here too, the Nokereberg and the Herlegemstraat are likely to play an important role in the final.
All winners of Cross Flanders
- 2012 Monique van de Ree (Netherlands)
- 2013 Kirsten Wild (Netherlands)
- 2014 Amy Pieters (Netherlands)
- 2015 Amy Pieters (Netherlands)
- 2016 Amy Pieters (Netherlands)
- 2017 Lotte Henttala (Finland)
- 2018 Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands)
- 2019 Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands)
- 2021 Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
- 2022 Chiara Consonni (Italy)
All winners of Cross Flanders
- 1945 Rik van Steenbergen (Belgium)
- 1946 Maurice Desimpelaere (Belgium)
- 1947 Albert Sercu (Belgium)
- 1948 Andre Rosseel (Belgium)
- 1949 Raymond Impanis (Belgium)
- 1950 Andre Rosseel (Belgium)
- 1951 Raymond Impanis (Belgium)
- 1952 Andre Maelbrancke (Belgium)
- 1953 Alberic Schotte (Belgium)
- 1954 Germain Derycke (Belgium)
- 1955 Alberic Schotte (Belgium)
- 1956 Lucien Demunster (Belgium)
- 1957 Noel Fore (Belgium)
- 1958 Andre Vlayen (Belgium)
- 1959 Roger Baens (Belgium)
- 1960 Arhur De Cabooter (Belgium)
- 1961 Maurice Meuleman (Belgium)
- 1962 Martin van Geneugden (Belgium)
- 1963 Clement Roman (Belgium)
- 1964 Piet van Est (Netherlands)
- 1965 Alfons Hermans (Belgium)
- 1966 Walter Godefroot (Belgium)
- 1967 Daniel van Ryckeghem (Belgium)
- 1968 Walter Godefroot (Belgium)
- 1969 Eri Leman (Belgium)
- 1970 Daniel van Ryckghem (Belgium)
- 1972 Marc Demeyer (Belgium)
- 1973 Roger Loysch (Belgium)
- 1974 Louis Verreydt (Belgium)
- 1975 Cees Priem (Netherlands)
- 1976 Willy Planckaert (Belgium)
- 1977 Walter Planckaert (Belgium)
- 1978 Jos Schipper (Netherlands)
- 1979 Gustaaf van Roosbroeck (Belgium)
- 1980 Johan van der Meer (Netherlands)
- 1981 Frank Hoste (Belgium)
- 1982 Jan Raas (Netherlands)
- 1983 Etienne De Wilde (Belgium)
- 1984 Walter Planckaert (Belgium)
- 1985 Eddy Planckaert (Belgium)
- 1986 Eric Vanderaerden (Belgium)
- 1987 Jelle Nijdam (Netherlands)
- 1988 John Talen (Netherlands)
- 1989 Dirk De Wolf (Belgium)
- 1990 Edwig van Hooydonck (Belgium)
- 1991 Eric Vanderaerden (Belgium)
- 1992 Olaf Ludwig (Germany)
- 1993 Johan Museeuw (Belgium)
- 1994 Carlo Bomans (Belgium)
- 1995 Jelle Nijdam (Netherlands)
- 1996 Tristan Hoffman (Netherlands)
- 1997 Andrei Tchmil (Ukraine)
- 1998 Tom Steels (Belgium)
- 1999 Johan Museeuw (Belgium)
- 2000 Tristan Hoffman (Netherlands)
- 2001 Niko Eeckhout (Belgium)
- 2002 Baden Cooke (Australia)
- 2003 Robbie McEwen (Australia)
- 2004 Ludovic Capelle (Belgium)
- 2005 Niko Eeckhout (Belgium)
- 2006 Frederik Veuchelen (Belgium)
- 2007 Tom Boonen (Belgium)
- 2008 Sylvain Chavanel (France)
- 2009 Kevin van Impe (Belgium)
- 2010 Matti Breschel (Denmark)
- 2011 Nick Nuyens (Belgium)
- 2012 Niki Terpstra (Netherlands)
- 2013 Oscar Gatto (Italy)
- 2014 Niki Terpstra (Netherlands)
- 2015 Jelle Wallays (Belgium)
- 2016 Jens Debusschere (Belgium)
- 2017 Yves Lampaert (Belgium)
- 2018 Yves Lampaert (Belgium)
- 2019 Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)
- 2021 Dylan van Baarle (Netherlands)
- 2022 Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)
