Amstel Gold Race 2025: Everything you need to know

All the information you need ahead of the men's and women's races, taking place in the Netherlands on Sunday April 20

Tom Pidcock celebrates after taking the victory at the 2024 Amstel Gold Race
Tom Pidcock wins 2024 Amstel Gold Race
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The Amstel Gold Race heralds the end of springs cobbled classics and the start of the hillier Ardennes one-day races. Amstel takes place in the Limburg region in the south of the Netherlands and forms part of the Ardennes triptych of races that includes La Fleche Wallone and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

This year's Amstel Gold Races take place on Sunday April 20. Both men's and women's races start in Maastricht near the Belgian border, and finish just 17 kilometres to the east in Valkenburg. The men cover 256kms and 34 named climbs - or Hellingen in Dutch - while the women cover 157kms and 22 climbs.

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Simon Richardson
Magazine editor

Editor of Cycling Weekly magazine, Simon has been working at the title since 2001. He fell in love with cycling 1989 when watching the Tour de France on Channel 4, started racing in 1995 and in 2000 he spent one season racing in Belgium. During his time at CW (and Cycle Sport magazine) he has written product reviews, fitness features, pro interviews, race coverage and news. He has covered the Tour de France more times than he can remember along with two Olympic Games and many other international and UK domestic races. He became the 130-year-old magazine's 13th editor in 2015.

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