Alpecin-Deceuninck have revealed Mathieu van der Poel’s race calendar for the rest of the 2024 season, with the five-day Tour de Luxembourg set to be his ultimate look earlier than the World Championships in Zürich.
Van der Poel will defend his highway race world title in Switzerland on a brutally powerful hilly course which takes in over 4000m of elevation achieve all through its 274km in laps round Zurich. The elite males’s highway race will happen on Sunday, September 29.
It’s a course that could possibly be extra suited to the highest one-day climbers Tadej Pogačar and former world champion Remco Evenepoel, nevertheless, Dutch nationwide coach Koos Moerenhout stated Van der Poel “ought to be capable to deal with Zurich” in dialog with In de Leidestrui however “he should be at his greatest to experience nicely there”.
For solely his thirtieth race day of the season, Van der Poel will take the beginning of the Renewi Tour, the one WorldTour stage race in Belgium, for 5 days of powerful racing between Riemst and Geraardsbergen from August 28 to September 1.
It’s a race he gained total in 2020 when it was the BinckBank Tour and he’ll look to do the identical alongside serving to high sprinter Jasper Philipsen to extra stage wins as he did within the Tour de France, the place the Belgian took three.
Van der Poel will then keep in Belgium to tackle the European Championships highway race on September 15 from Heusden-Zolder to Hasselt. It will probably be on his favoured terrain in Limburg, Belgium and is among the titles he’s missed out on in his illustrious profession, having completed runner-up in 2018 behind Matteo Trentin in Glasgow.
His first look on the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg will comply with the week earlier than Worlds from September 18-22 as the ultimate tune-up.
Alpecin additionally revealed a jam-packed end-of-season race calendar for his or her different large star, Philipsen, with the Belgian sprinter scheduled to experience the Renewi Tour, Bemer Cyclassics, European Championships (if chosen), Super 8 Classic, Gooikse Pijl, Binche-Chimay-Binche, Sparkassen Munsterland and Paris-Tours.
