{"id":11178,"date":"2026-04-05T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:57:57","slug":"tour-of-flanders-demi-vollerings-historic-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/tour-of-flanders-demi-vollerings-historic-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Flanders: Demi Vollering\u2019s historic victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>On Sunday 5 April, Demi Vollering wrote one of the finest chapters in the team\u2019s history by winning the Tour of Flanders in a solo breakaway. It was a masterclass in strength orchestrated by an unbeatable team, securing the team its very first \u2018Ronde\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a nervous start in Oudenaarde, the race was marred by a massive crash 47 kilometres from the finish, forcing several favourites to abandon the race. Following this incident, the team took charge at the front of the peloton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team effort began with C\u00e9lia G\u00e9ry and Elise Chabbey, who set a brisk pace to whittle down the leading group. With 32 kilometres to go, on the Taaienberg, Franziska Koch launched a powerful attack. In her wake, only Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Premier Tech), Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Demi Vollering were initially able to keep up, before a group of thirteen riders formed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final breakaway came on the climb up Vieux Quaremont, 18 kilometres from the finish line. After a final turn at the front by Franziska Koch, Demi Vollering launched a decisive attack and quickly opened up a gap on her pursuers, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t and Puck Pieterse, who were unable to match the Dutch rider\u2019s pace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RVV_-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RVV_-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RVV_-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demi rode the final few kilometres alone, managing her lead to win by a margin of 42 seconds over the chasing pair. Behind her, Lotte Kopecky won the sprint for fourth place, more than a minute behind the winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having won Strade Bianche, Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race, Demi has finally added the \u2018Ronde\u2019 to his list of victories. For the team, this success marks a significant milestone in its history, as it had never before won a cobbled Monument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Classement final :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Demi Vollering (FDJ UNITED-SUEZ)<\/strong> \u2014 on his own<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t (Visma-Lease a Bike) at 42&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Premier Tech) m.t.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) at 1&#8217;04&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s one for the HISTORYYYY \ud83d\udc9b<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RondeVlaanderen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RondeVlaanderen<\/a> \/\/ FLCS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDxi24tsdA\">pic.twitter.com\/tDxi24tsdA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FDJ &#8211; SUEZ (@FDJ_SUEZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDJ_SUEZ\/status\/2040823730331328976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">The KOCHppenberg \ud83d\ude08<br><br>Ronde van Vlaanderen \/\/ TOP 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GIFuDL5AUS\">pic.twitter.com\/GIFuDL5AUS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FDJ &#8211; SUEZ (@FDJ_SUEZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDJ_SUEZ\/status\/2041050094267461783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 5 April, Demi Vollering wrote one of the finest chapters in the team\u2019s history by winning the Tour of Flanders in a solo breakaway. It was a masterclass in strength orchestrated by an unbeatable team, securing the team its very first \u2018Ronde\u2019. After a nervous start in Oudenaarde, the race was marred by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[163,161,165,172],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race","tag-celia-en","tag-demi-en","tag-elise-en","tag-franziska-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}