Organisers of the Amstel Gold Race introduced the return of the dreaded Cauberg ascent to the ultimate kilometres of each the lads’s and girls’s races for 2025.
The climb will include 2km to go of a 256.5 kilometer males’s Amstel Gold Race route that can start in Maastricht. The course consists of lots of the well-known Limburg climbs such because the Geulhemmerberg and Bemelerberg, with riders tackling the Cauberg 3 times. The ladies’s race will even begin in Maastricht and, as in 2024, race a 157.9-kilometer course together with 5 ascents of the Cauberg.
Race director Leo van Vliet relocated the end in 2013 from the summit of the Cauberg to a extra spacious location between Berg en Terblijt and Vilt.Â
In 2017, the organisation eliminated the Cauberg from the ultimate lap to open up alternatives for late assaults somewhat than a extra conservative race the place riders watch for the ultimate climb.
“The Cauberg after all has one thing magical,” Van Vliet mentioned within the announcement.
“With the kind of riders these days that begin their closing many kilometers from the tip after which additionally the climb of the Cauberg at solely two kilometers from the tip, we once more count on an exciting closing. A closing that the viewers in Valkenburg and on the Cauberg goes to expertise very carefully.”
The complete route has but to be revealed.
Amstel Gold Race 2025 climbs
