Brabant Arrow 2025, super return for Evenepoel. Longo Borghini wins the women's race

Rome, 18 April 2025 - Despite the respective proportions of their injuries, they were the most anticipated and did not disappoint expectations: Remco Evenepoel ed Elisa Longo Borghini they win the Brabant Arrow 2025.  

The match and Evenepoel's statements

  The success of the Belgian, practically stopped since 3th December, the day of the impact against the open door of a van, is prodigious and comes after a day in which his Soudal Quick Step worked hard to stop any escape attempt. The same goes for the Visma-Lease a Bike, all united for its captain Wout van aert, another called to find himself, albeit for different reasons. With the two favourites, the surprise remains Joseph Blackmore, before giving up. A Belgian derby is thus taking shape that rewards evenepoel despite Van Aert practically stop pulling in the last 2 km to save energy for the sprint, and maybe also to avoid another mockery in style Dwars door Vlaanderen 2025. Needless to say, he wins anyway evenepoel and for Van Aert the consolation prize, now a condemnation, of the usual second place arrives: he closes the podium Antonio Morgado. Great satisfaction from the Olympic champion, who had shown up at the signature sheet with the aim of testing his condition and trying to stay with the best. "It's simply incredible. I had understood in the last few days that I was feeling quite well but I would never have said that I would get to play the final sprint with Wout. I thought I would be beaten in the sprint, but you should never give up. In addition, over the years I think I have also become a little more explosive. This was not a group sprint: it is proof that you always have to try". It is impossible not to return to the ordeal of the last few months. "It was really hard in training with the team, but in these last two weeks I have regained some confidence in the high altitude training camp and I have begun to understand that I am quite well. This was the first race and it is always difficult. Many times work pays off and it is truly incredible, even if I had understood that I was fine. Van Aert He was good on the cobbled sections, making a race that wasn't exactly my style even harder. I'm even more happy to have won." Evenepoel is already looking to the near future. "This is a race that has been gaining credibility in recent years because it has become the perfect synthesis between the Classics Flemish and those of the Ardennes. It's a good result also in view of the triple crown and also for my team, which still had to get going".

The women's race

  The Longo Borghini he was on his way back after the concussion suffered at Giro delle Fiandre 2025The Piedmontese won for the second year in a row and she did it starting 10 km from the end, when the race had reached the cobbled section of S-Bocht OverjiseThe margin has expanded to a maximum of 26", which later became 6" thanks to the pursuit from the rear, however in vain if not to complete the podium: second Marianne Vos and third Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini, which in turn gives another tricolour brushstroke to the Brabant Arrow dedicated to women.

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