Amstel Gold Race 2019

The Amstel Gold Race is played out on a route with 4,000 vertical metres. Mathieu van der Poel strikes with 43 kilometres remaining, but Julian Alaphilippe and Jakob Fuglsang go on the counter-attack. In the last 300 metres Mathieu van der Poel returns out of thin air and sprints to the win.

Kasia Niewiadoma wins the Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition. She attacks on the last climb up the Cauberg and holds off the chasing Annemiek van Vleuten. Marianne Vos finishes in third.

The Amstel Gold Race is the biggest classic held in The Netherlands and kicks off a series of three Classics in the Ardennes region. Cyclingstage.com presents the records and recent winners.

The Tour of the Alps starts this Monday to finish on Friday the 26th of April. The mountainous race is played out on the borders of Italy and Austria and features over 13,000 metres of climbing in five days of racing.

Vincenzo Nibali and Chris Froome headline the 2019 Tour of the Alps. Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list of the mountainous Middle-European race.

Monday 22 April - At 144 kilometres, the 1st stage of the Tour of the Alps is a hilly out-and-back race in Kufstein, close to the Austrian-German border. The short and sharp Hinterthiersee climb is crested inside the last 13 kilometres.