Filippo Ganna won the one-day semi-classic 2026 Dwars door Vlaanderen "Across Flanders" race Wednesday, as local favorite Wout Van Aert was agonizingly caught just 100 meters from the finish after a brave solo breakaway.
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"This is an amazing victory for me," said Ganna, of the Ineos-Grenadiers team, who had to fight back after breaking his front wheel and handlebars in two separate incidents earlier in the 185-kilometer race from Roeselare to Waregem. "Wout made an impressive performance. To catch him was not easy, but in the end, the legs supported me to the finish line."
Three days after another long-range bid by Van Aert -- alongside his great rival Mathieu van der Poel when he was caught a kilometer from the finish of In Flanders Fields 2026 -- the Belgian again was denied at the death.
And it was the second straight year he had finished second in this race, called Dwars door Vlaanderen in Dutch, meaning he has not won a major one-day race in more than two years.
Van Aert had launched his attack up the Eikenberg cobbled climb with about 40 kilometers to ride and quickly caught three riders from an earlier breakaway.
He shed those three companions one by one as a charging peloton ate into the 45-second lead they had built up.
With the gap coming down, Ganna and Belgian Florian Vermeersch launched a counterattack to try to catch Van Aert.
Vermeersch, who similarly was part of unsuccessful counterattacks at In Flanders Fields, and two days before that when Van der Poel won the E3 Saxo Classic, faded, but Ganna pushed on.
And the Italian was rewarded as he surged past the fading Van Aert with 100 meters left to finish just ahead of the Belgian and one second in front of the peloton, with Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold winning the race for third place.
2026 Dwars Door Vlaanderen - Men Top 25 Finishers
- Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) – 3:48:27
- Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 3:48:27
- Søren Wærenskjold (Uno-X Mobility) – 3:48:28
- Biniam Girmay (NSN Cycling Team) – 3:48:28
- Laurence Pithie (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 3:48:28
- Orluis Aular (Movistar Team) – 3:48:28
- Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 3:48:28
- Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin–Premier Tech) – 3:48:28
- Vito Braet (Lotto Intermarché) – 3:48:28
- Mads Pedersen (Lidl - Trek) – 3:48:28
- Hugo Page (Unibet Rose Rockets) – 3:48:28
- Lukáš Kubiš (Cofidis) – 3:48:28
- Rick Pluimers (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 3:48:28
- Carlos Canal (Movistar Team) – 3:48:28
- Axel Huens (Groupama - FDJ United) – 3:48:28
- Sandy Dujardin (TotalEnergies) – 3:48:28
- Matej Mohorič (Bahrain - Victorious) – 3:48:28
- Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step) – 3:48:28
- Thibaud Gruel (Groupama - FDJ United) – 3:48:28
- Brent Van Moer (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 3:48:28
- Alessandro Romele (XDS Astana Team) – 3:48:28
- Cedric Beullens (Lotto Intermarché) – 3:48:28
- Oliver Naesen (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 3:48:28
- António Morgado (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 3:48:28
- Samuel Watson (INEOS Grenadiers) – 3:48:28
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