Tour of Flanders 2021 start lists
Full list of riders taking part in the 2021 edition on Sunday, April 4
The start list for the 2021 edition of the Tour of Flanders has not yet been confirmed but here are the names currently down to race.
Belgium’s cobbled Monument takes place on Sunday, April 4 this season, after being held in October last year due to Covid-19, and we'll be treated to a stellar line-up of talent.
Defending champion Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) is down to start with the usual solid team around him as they come up against the likes of Greg Van Avermaet (Ag2r-Citroën) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) who comes to the race with the first Monument, Milan-San Remo, in his back pocket.
On-form Deceuninck-Quick-Step brings with them a strong team, including World Champion, Julian Alaphilippe, who makes his second appearance at the race after crashing out last year, Yves Lampaert, Kasper Asgreen and Zdeněk Stybar.
One of the biggest stars on the list is the on-form Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), as he looks to continue his amazing form going into the cobbled monuments.
Other big names on the start list include Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Oliver Naesen (Ag2r-Citroën), Sep Vanmarke (Israel Start-Up Nation), Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers).
In the women's race, defending champion Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (SD Worx) will be hoping that she can be involved in the finale yet again in her final season.
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Current world champion and team-mate of Van den Broek-Blaak, Anna van der Breggen, is likely going in as the favourite but she faces stiff opposition from European Champion Annemiek Van Vleuten (Movistar) and Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) who comes to the race off the back of her victory at Gent-Wevelgem.
Other on-form riders and real dangers for the race win are yet more SD Worx riders in Jolien d'Hoore and Amy Pieters. Belgian champion Lotte Kopecky (Lotto-Soudal) and German champion Lisa Brennauer (Ceretizit-WNT) are two other fast riders who can make it over the cobbles too.
Trek-Segafredo have a very solid team yet again with Elisa Longo-Borghini and Lizzie Deignan likely down as the main leaders but with Ellen van Dijk as well as the world cyclo-cross champion Lucinda Brand as an outsider.
Other names to look out for are Marta Bastianelli (Alé-BTC-Ljubljana), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Cecile Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope), Emme Norsgaard (Movistar), Grace Brown (BikeExchange) and Elisa Balsamo (Valcar-Travel & Service).
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Men's Tour of Flanders 2021 start list
Alpecin-Fenix
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
VERMEERSCH Gianni
DE BONDT Dries
DILLIER Silvan
RICKAERT Jonas
VAKOČ Petr
VERGAERDE Otto
EF Education-Nippo
BETTIOL Alberto
SCULLY Tom
VALGREN Michael
RUTSCH Jonas
LANGEVELD Sebastian
KEUKELEIRE Jens
BISSEGGER Stefan
Total Direct Energie
TERPSTRA Niki
VAN GESTEL Dries
TURGIS Anthony
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
GAUDIN Damien
SOUPE Geoffrey
PETIT Adrien
Movistar Team
GARCÍA CORTINA Iván
CULLAIGH Gabriel
HOLLMANN Juri
JACOBS Johan
MAS Lluís
MORA Sebastián
ERVITI Imanol
Deceuninck - Quick-Step
LAMPAERT Yves
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
BALLERINI Davide
DECLERCQ Tim
ASGREEN Kasper
ŠTYBAR Zdeněk
SÉNÉCHAL Florian
Lotto-Soudal
WELLENS Tim
DEGENKOLB John
DE BUYST Jasper
VAN MOER Brent
FRISON Frederik
VERMEERSCH Florian
Bora-Hansgrohe
SAGAN Peter
BODNAR Maciej
OSS Daniel
BURGHARDT Marcus
POLITT Nils
SAGAN Juraj
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
Ag2r-Citroën Team
NAESEN Oliver
VAN AVERMAET Greg
SCHÄR Michael
DEWULF Stan
VAN HOUCKE Gijs
NAESEN Lawrence
TOUZÉ Damien
Bingoal-Pauwels Sauces-Wallonie Bruxelles
LIVYNS Arjen
DUPONT Timothy
ROBEET Ludovic
VANENDERT Jelle
REX Laurenz
MENTEN Milan
WIRTGEN Luc
Team BikeExchange
MEZGEC Luka
DURBRIDGE Luke
BAUER Jack
EDMONDSON Alex
MATTHEWS Michael
KONYCHEV Alexander
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
Astana-Premier Tech
GIDICH Yevgeniy
HOULE Hugo
LUTSENKO Alexey
FEDOROV Yevgeniy
GRUZDEV Dmitriy
PERRY Benjamin
STALNOV Nikita
Bahrain Victorious
SIEBERG Marcel
FENG Chun Kai
COLBRELLI Sonny
MILAN Jonathan
HALLER Marco
HAUSSLER Heinrich
BAUHAUS Phil
Groupama-FDJ
MADOUAS Valentin
GENIETS Kevin
KÜNG Stefan
LUDVIGSSON Tobias
LE GAC Olivier
LIENHARD Fabian
Team Qhubeka-Assos
NIZZOLO Giacomo
CAMPENAERTS Victor
GOGL Michael
WALSCHEID Max
WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz
VINJEBO Emil
CLAEYS Dimitri
Team Jumbo-Visma
VAN AERT Wout
DEKKER David
AFFINI Edoardo
WYNANTS Maarten
ROOSEN Timo
EENKHOORN Pascal
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
Israel Start-Up Nation
HOFSTETTER Hugo
VANMARKE Sep
GREIPEL André
ZABEL Rick
BIERMANS Jenthe
HOLLENSTEIN Reto
VAN ASBROECK Tom
Ineos Grenadiers
PIDCOCK Tom
KWIATKOWSKI Michał
ROWE Luke
DOULL Owain
VAN BAARLE Dylan
BASSO Leonardo
Team DSM
BENOOT Tiesj
EEKHOFF Nils
ARNDT Nikias
SÜTTERLIN Jasha
KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren
NIEUWENHUIS Joris
DENZ Nico
Trek-Segafredo
STUYVEN Jasper
KIRSCH Alex
PEDERSEN Mads
THEUNS Edward
MULLEN Ryan
DE KORT Koen
SIMMONS Quinn
UAE Team Emirates
KRISTOFF Alexander
TRENTIN Matteo
MARCATO Marco
BYSTRØM Sven Erik
FORMOLO Davide
OLIVEIRA Ivo
OLIVEIRA Rui
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
ALLEGAERT Piet
LAPORTE Christophe
BOHLI Tom
DRUCKER Jempy
WALLAYS Jelle
VANBILSEN Kenneth
MORIN Emmanuel
Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
MARIT Arne
WARLOP Jordi
BEULLENS Cédric
WILLEMS Thimo
VAN DEN BOSSCHE Fabio
DE VYLDER Lindsay
VAN POUCKE Aaron
B&B Hotels p/b KTM
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
BACKAERT Frederick
COQUARD Bryan
BARTHE Cyril
DE BACKER Bert
LECROQ Jérémy
MOZZATO Luca
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
VAN POPPEL Danny
VLIEGEN Loïc
KOCH jonas
DE GENDT Aimé
VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter
PASQUALON Andrea
KREDER Wesley
Arkéa-Samsic
RUSSO Clément
BARGUIL Warren
CAPIOT Amaury
SWIFT Connor
NOPPE Christophe
DECLERCQ Benjamin
LOUVEL Matis
Women's Tour of Flanders 2021 start list
SD Worx
VAN DER BREGGEN Anna
D'HOORE Jolien
VAN DEN BROEK-BLAAK Chantal
CECCHINI Elena
PIETERS Amy
MAJERUS Christine
Team BikeExchange
CAMPBELL Teniel
BROWN Grace
ROY Sarah
SPRATT Amanda
FIDANZA Arianna
TENNIGLIO Moniek
Liv Racing
KOPECKY Lotte
JACKSON Alison
PALADIN Soraya
BERTIZZOLO Sofia
KUIJPERS Evy
KOREVAAR Jeanne
Trek-Segafredo
VAN DIJK Ellen
DEIGNAN Lizzie
LONGO-BORGHINI Elisa
CORDON-RAGOT Audrey
BRAND Lucinda
WINDER Ruth
Team DSM
MACKAIJ Floortje
LABOUS Juliette
LIPPERT Liane
KIRCHMANN Leah
ANDERSEN Susanne
KOCH Franziska
Canyon-SRAM Racing
BARNES Alice
BARNES Hannah
AMIALIUSIK Alena
NIEWIADOMA Kasia
KLEIN Lisa
CROMWELL Tiffany
Ceretizit-WNT Pro Cycling
BRENNAUER Lisa
CONFALONIERI Maria Giulia
LETH Julie
BANKS Elizabeth
ASENCIO Laura
TEUTENBERG Lea Lin
Valcar-Travel & Service
PIRRONE Elena
BALSAMO Elisa
CONSONNI Chiara
GUAZZINI Vittoria
SANGUINETI Ilaria
PERSICO Silvia
Movistar Team
BIANNIC Aude
ERIĆ Jelena
VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek
NORSGAARD Emma
GONZÁLEZ Alicia
THOMAS Leah
Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank
STEPHENS Lauren
YONAMINE Eri
KESSLER Nina
GIGANTE Sarah
FAULKNER Kristen
BUURMAN Eva
Parkhotel-Valkenburg
BREDEWOLD Mischa
RAAIMAKERS Marit
NOOIJEN Lieke
VAN DER HULST Amber
MARKUS Femke
GERRITSE Femke
FDJ-Nouvelle Aquitane Futuroscope
GROSSETÊTE Maëlle
LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup
CAVALI Marta
FAHLIN Emilia
DUVAL Eugénie
CHAPMAN Brodie
Lotto-Soudal Ladies
NILSSON Hanna
VANDENBULKE Jesse
PLICHTA Anna
PARKINSON Abby-Mae
MEERTENS Lone
BRAAM Danique
Doltcini-Van Eyck Sport
VAN VELZEN Bryony
STEIGENGA Nicole
VAN EYNDE Fien
SCHWEINBERGER Christina
SCHWEINBERGER Kathrin
Plantur-Pura
ALVARADO Ceylin
CANT Sanne
BAKKER Manon
VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge
VAN ALPHEN Aniek
KASTELIJN Yara
Multum Acountants-LSK Ladies Cycling Team
VAN DER WOLF Rosalie
DUYCK Ann-Sophie
DE SMEDT Marijke
DELBAERE Fien
WATERREUS Kylie
VAN HOUTUM Céline
Bingoal Casino-Chevalmeire Cycling Team
BEX Nathalie
DE JONG Demi
SLIK Rozanne
DE JONG Thalita
RATTO Rossella
JONGERIEUS Claudia
Team Coop-Hitec Products
ANDERSSON Caroline
GJØS Martine
LUTRO Amalie
YSLAND Anne Dorthe
KRÖGER Mieke
RIFFEL Christa
Drops-Le Col s/b Tempur
CHRISTMAN Dani
PENTON Sara
MOBERG Emilie
MARTINS Maria
VAN DER DUIN Maike
VAN 'T GELOOF Marjolein
Massi-Tactic Women Team
BENITO Mireia
TRIAS Ariadna
LÓPEZ Belén
ORTEGA Patricia
MARTIN Isabel
PILOTE-FORTIN Gabrielle
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