Tour of Flanders 2024 start returns to Antwerp – full route

Approach to Koppenberg changes to make race safer, eliminating Kortekeer and Kanarieberg, adding Kapelleberg

The Tour of Flanders route has been overhauled for 2024 as race organisers move the start location back to Antwerp after starting the annual alternation with Bruges last season. An emphasis on safety has led Flanders Classics to shift the route to more major roads on the run out to the finishing circuits around Oudenaarde and a new approach to the Koppenberg.

The elite men's race, which will take place on March 31, 2024, will start with a team presentation on the Grote Markt in Antwerp but riders will head through the city neutralised for 5km before the flag drops for the start of racing.

"From Steenplein, we head to the Oudaen [a former police headquarters designed by modernist architect Renaat Braem] and then cycle along the Meir [the main shopping district in Antwerp. The latter will undoubtedly produce some exceptional footage," said Flanders Classics CEO Tomas Van Den Spiegel.

"At Operaplein, we ride towards Italiëlei and then on to the Waasland tunnel. With this altered course, the official start is still on Antwerp territory. At the Galgenweel [a brackish lake] on the Linkeroever [the left bank of the Schelde], the flag goes up."

Also new is the approach to the circuits that include the critical moments on the Paterberg and Oude Kwaremont climbs.

"The changes in the first 100 km are safety-related choices," Race Director Scott Sunderland said. "We have been looking even further for wide roads so that the peloton has more space in which to build up speed.

"The edition from Bruges, where we carried out a similar exercise for the opening hours of the race, showed how these wide roads led to high averages in the opening hours. That speed ultimately helped to determine the shape of the race and the strategic choices of the teams."

The Tour of Flanders will pass through Sint-Niklaas, Hamme, Haaltert, Herzele and Zottegem en route to the Flemish Ardennes where they will start the same circuits that have been used since 2012 with some small changes on the approach to the Koppenberg 45km before the finish.

"We have opted to change the approach for the men and to make it the same as the one for the women. A choice for equality, but above all for reasons of safety," Sunderland said.

"This change means that after the first climb of the Paterberg, the riders will cycle on roads where it is easier to keep track of things. We are making the approach to the Koppenberg more straightforward and are taking out the descent and sharp bend just before the climb."

The change allows the women's convoy to follow the same detour as the men's and allows team car support through to the base of the Koppenberg and removes a choke point on the course for team cars and riders. 

"These situations were becoming too dangerous and safety is our highest priority. Furthermore, we also want to adapt our course to the way in which the peloton races," Sunderland said. "Both the Kortekeer and the Kanarieberg will not be included in the course this year. But we are adding the Kapelleberg."

From the Koppenberg onwards, the course will remain the same as the past 12 years with the cobbled sections on the Mariaborrestraat, Steenbeekdries and Stationsberg leading to the climbs of the Taaienberg, Oude Kruisberg/Hotond and the final, decisive ascents of the Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg with 13km before the finish on Minderbroedersstraat in Oudenaarde.

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01 apr 2023 -.

2023 sees the 107th edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen (or Tour of Flanders in English), one of cycling's legendary Spring Classics.

Each year the day before the pros battle it out a sportive is held to allow the public to share the experience of riding the famous cobbles of Flanders in one of the highlights of the sportive calendar.

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Those thinking of riding the original, Spring edition of Vlaanderens mooiste ("Flanders' finest") had best be prepared for some serious endurance riding.

There are typically four distances on offer, and while the exact distance varies depending on the start location, you can expect to choose from around 229km, 174km, 139km, and 74km.

Each route features a generous helping of the trademark Belgian cobblestones to tackle. How tough the route is depends largely on the weather - it can be anywhere from close to freezing to 18 degrees in Belgium in early April and bad weather can make the Tour of Flanders pretty tough for even highly experienced riders.

There are feed stations roughly every 30km along the route, stocked with energy bars, waffles and fruit (mainly bananas and orange segments).

You may want to fit new bottle cages to your bike that will hold your bottles tightly over the cobbled sections - although it is nothing like Paris Roubaix in terms of roughness of surface plenty of riders in previous years have said they lost bottles thanks to having plastic lightweight bottle holders or carbon ones that simply didn't grip tightly enough.

Cobbled highlights to look forward to include:

  • Molenberg:  Molenberg, Zwalm. Climbs 32m from 24m to 56m. Maximum 17 per cent.
  • Oude Kwaremont:  Broekstraat, Kwaremontplein, Schilderstraat, Kluisbergen. Climbs 93m from 18m to 111m. Maximum 11 per cent.
  • Koppenberg:  Steengat, Koppenberg, Oudenaarde-Melden. Climbs 64m from 13m to 77m; Maximum 25 per cent at inside of bend, otherwise 22 per cent.
  • Taaienberg:  Taaienberg, Maarkedal-Etikhove. Climbs 45m from 37m to 82m. Maximum 18 per cent.
  • Berg ter Stene:  Stene, Horebeke. Climbs 68m from 32m to 100m. Maximum 9 per cent.
  • Leberg:  Leberg, Brakel-Zegelsem. Climbs 39m from 60m to 9m. Maximum 15 per cent.
  • Berendries:  Berendries, Brakel-Sint-Maria-Oudenhove. Climbs 65m from 33m to 98m. Maximum 14 per cent.
  • Valkenberg:  Valkenbergstraat, Brakel-Nederbrakel. Climbs 53m from 45m to 98m. Maximum 15 per cent.
  • Muur-Kapelmuur:  Abdijstraat, Ouderbergstraat, Oudeberg, Gerardsbergen. Climbs 77m from 33m to 110m. Maximum 20 per cent.
  • Bosberg:  Kapellestraat, Geraardsbergen-Moerbeke. Climbs 40m from 65m to 105m. Maximum 11 per cent.
  • Tenbosse:  Olifantstraat, Brakel. Climbs 28m from 45m to 73m. Maximum 14 per cent.

If you go to ride this event make sure you book yourself into the hotel long enough to experience the pro riders in the actual Tour of Flanders the next day. This is the race that stops Belgium...when Fabian Cancellara won in 2014, 85.7% of the population of the country watched his victory either live or on television!

Check out some more information on riding the Tour of Flanders:

  • Keith Gilks' 2016 Tour of Flanders ride report
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