E3 Saxo Classic: Winners and records

foto: Cor VosE3 Saxo Classic, previously known as E3 Harelbeke, is on the cycling calendar since 1958. Preceding the Tour of Flanders and featuring both hills and cobbles, the race is seen as a test case for Flander’s cycling high mass itself. Cyclingstage.com brings you the recent winners and records.

Recent winners E3 Classic

2026: ?
2025: Mathieu van der Poel (nld)
2024: Mathieu van der Poel (nld)
2023: Wout van Aert (nld)
2022: Wout van Aert (bel)
2021: Kasper Asgreen (den)
2020: cancelled
2019: Zdenek Stybar (cze)
2018: Niki Terpstra (nld)
2017: Greg Van Avermaet (bel)
2016: Michal Kwiatkowski (pol)
2015: Geraint Thomas (gbr)
2014: Peter Sagan (svk)

E3 Saxo Bank Records

Winning the race five times, Tom Boonen is the undisputed king of the E3 Saxo Classic, formerly know as the E3 Harelbeke. Back in the days his countryman Rick Van Looy was four times victorious in the classic.

Both winning the race two times, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel are the most successful active riders.

Tom BoonenPeter SaganNiki TerpstraMichal KwiatkowskiZdenek StybarGreg van AvermaetGeraint ThomasMathieu van der PoelKasper AsgreenWout van Aert

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