Gent-Wevelgem 2024: All you need to know

Gent-Wevelgem 2024: Key details

Gent-Wevelgem 2024 will be held on Sunday 24 March and is in its 76th year. It now holds a historic centrepiece in the Flandrien Classics; the major WorldTour event is the second part of "Flemish Holy Week" which includes the E3 Saxo Classic on Friday, before it is then followed by Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Tour of Flanders.

The official name of the race is Gent-Wevelgem – in Flanders Fields; a reference to the First World War.

Both the men's and women's events travel through the area known as Flanders Fields, a symbolic and historic site forever associated with the Great War. Nowadays, the men's race doesn't start in Gent, but at the Menin Gate in Ypres, and often passes Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest burial ground for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any conflict. The women's race starts in Ieper and is around 160km.

A variety of riders can flourish at Ghent-Wevelgem due to the relatively balanced parcours. 

However, the race's marquee cobbled climb, the Kemmelberg, is severe enough to cause major splits in the action and features twice in the women's race and three times in the men's. Wind nearly always plays a factor due to the long, exposed flats.

Last year, after after an attack from Christope Laporte and Wout van Aert, to which no other riders could respond, Laporte took the win. In the women's race, Marlen Reusser rode to a solo victory with the rest of the field over 2 minutes behind.

Where: Belgium

When: Sunday 24 March

Rank: UCI WorldTour

Distance: 260.9km (men's), 162km (women's)

Key Information: Route and start list I How to watch I 2022 race report men I 2022 race report women

Gent-Wevelgem: Past winners (men)

2023: Christophe Laporte (Fra) Team Jumbo–Visma
2022: Biniam Girmay (ERI) Intermarche- Circus Wanty
2021: Wout van Aert (BEL) Jumbo-Visma
2020: Mads Pedersen (DEN) trek-Segafredo
2019: Alexander Kristoff (NOR) UAE Team Emirates
2018: Peter Sagan (SLO) Bora-Hansgrohe
2017: Greg van Avermaet (BEL) BMC Racing
2016: Peter Sagan (SLO) Tinkoff
2015: Luca Paolini (ITA) Katusha
2014: John Degenkolb (GER) Giant-Shimano
2013: Peter Sagan (SLO) Cannondale
2012: Tom Boonen (BEL) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step
2011: Tom Boonen (BEL) Quick-Step
2010: Bernard Eisel (AUS) HTC-Columbia
2009: Edval Boasson-Hagen (NOR) Columbia-High Road
2008: Oscar Freire (SPA) Rabobank
2007: Marcus Burghardt (GER) T-Mobile
2006: Thor Hushovd (NOR) Credit-Agricole
2005: Nico Mattan Davitamon-Lotto
2004: Tom Boonen (BEL) Quick-Step Davitamon
2003: Andreas Kilier (GER) Team Telekom
2002: Mario Cipollini (ITA) Acqua e Sapone
2001: George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service

Gent-Wevelgem: Past winners (women)

2023: Marlen Reusser (CH) SD Worx
2022: Elisa Balsamo (ITA) Trek-Segafredo
2021: Marianne Vos (NED) Jumbo-Visma
2020 Jolien D'Hoore (BEL) Boels-Dolmans
2019: Kirsten Wild (NED) WNT-Rotor Pro
2018: Marta Bastianelli (ITA) Ale-Cipollini
2017: Lotta Lepisto (FIN) Crevelo-Bigla
2016: Chantal Blaak (NED) Boels-Dolmans
2015: Floortje Mackaij (NED) Liv-Plantur
2014: Lauren Hall (USA) Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies
2013: Kirsten Wild (USA) Argos-Shimano

Official Race Links

Official race Twitter channel

Flanders Classics (Race Organiser) official website