Wout van Aert’s plan for his 2025 highway racing season is taking form, with begins at each the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France on the playing cards this season.
The Belgian was set to tackle the 2 Grand Tours in 2024 earlier than a crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen derailed his spring marketing campaign and threw off his season plans – together with a profession debut in Italy.
However, Het Laatste Nieuws has revealed that the Visma-Lease A Bike chief is planning as soon as once more to go to the Giro and Tour this season, with sprinter Olav Kooij additionally set to race the Giro.
Following the conclusion of his abridged cyclocross marketing campaign in late January – throughout which he scored his first win in Dendermonde on Sunday – Van Aert will head to a closing pre-season coaching camp earlier than making his 2025 debut on February 17 on the Clásica Jaén.
He’ll then head to the Volta ao Algarve to arrange for a spring Classics season. Van Aert will deal with each races at Opening Weekend earlier than a spell at altitude in Tenerife forward of the E3 Saxo Classic, Gent-Wevelgem, a return to Dwars door Vlaanderen and the 2 massive targets – the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
Strade Bianche and Milan-San Remo, races he is triumphed at earlier than, will not determine in his plans for the spring, although a go to to Amstel Gold Race, which he gained in 2021, figures to spherical out his Classics marketing campaign.
Following the spring, his primary targets would be the Giro and Tour, although the rest of Van Aert’s 2025 schedule has but to be confirmed.
With each he and Kooij heading to the Italian Grand Tour, which begins in Albania on May 5, Van Aert ought to reprise his position as a star lead-out for the younger sprinter. The pairing has beforehand delivered success on the 2023 Tour of Britain, the place Van Aert helped Kooij to 4 stage wins in a row, and on the 2024 Clásica de Almería.
Van Aert also needs to be clear to combat for his personal successes and stage wins on the race, whereas he is more likely to additionally stability domestique and stage-hunting duties on the Tour, the place teammate Jonas Vingegaard will probably be looking for a 3rd total victory.
Wout van Aert 2025 schedule
- January 19: UCI World Cup cyclocross, Benidorm
- January 25: UCI World Cup cyclocross, Maasmechelen
- February 17: Clásica Jaén
- February 19-23: Volta ao Algarve
- March 1: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- March 2: Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne
- March 28: E3 Saxo Classic
- March 30: Gent-Wevelgem
- April 2: Dwars door Vlaanderen
- April 6: Tour of Flanders
- April 13: Paris-Roubaix
- April 20: Amstel Gold Race
- May 9-June 1: Giro d’Italia
- July 5-27: Tour de France
