Wout van Aert: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): Team Visma | Lease a Bike
Nationality: Belgium
Born: 15 September 1994, Herentals, Belgium
Profile: Versatile classics rider and sprinter; also cyclo-cross
Pro since: 2013
Previous teams: Young Telenet–Fidea Cycling Team (2011–2012), Telenet–Fidea (2013), Vastgoedservice–Golden Palace (2014–2015), Crelan–Vastgoedservice (2016), Vérandas Willems–Crelan (2017–2018)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

7 March 2026Strade Bianche10th Source
21 March 2026Milano–Sanremo3rd Source
1 April 2026Dwars door Vlaanderen2nd Source
5 April 2026Tour of Flanders4th Source
12 April 2026Paris–Roubaix1st Source
11 June 2026Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes, stage 51st Source
2 August 2026PostNord Tour of Denmark1st overall; won stages 1, 2 and 3; 1st points classification Source
4 September 2026Vuelta a España, stage 131st Source
6 September 2026Vuelta a España, stage 151st Source
13 September 2026Vuelta a España1st points classification; 44th overall Source

Palmarès

2018UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships1st (third consecutive title, after 2016 and 2017) Source
2020Milan–San Remo1st Source
2020Strade Bianche1st Source
2021Amstel Gold Race1st Source
2021Olympic Games, road race2nd (silver medal) Source
2022Tour de France1st points classification, 3 stage wins Source
2023E3 Saxo Classic1st (also won in 2022) Source
2025Giro d'Italia1st stage 9 (Siena) Source
2025Tour de France1st stage 21 (Champs-Élysées) Source
2026Paris–Roubaix1st Source

Biography

Wout van Aert was born on 15 September 1994 in Herentals, Belgium. He began in cyclo-cross, where he was world champion in 2016, 2017 and 2018 and Belgian champion five times. On the road he rode for Vérandas Willems–Crelan in 2017 and 2018, then joined the Dutch team now called Team Visma | Lease a Bike in March 2019. In September 2024 he re-signed with the team on a deal that runs to the end of his career.

His first major road wins for the team came in 2020, when he took Strade Bianche and Milan–San Remo, beating Julian Alaphilippe in a two-man sprint in Sanremo. In 2021 he won three Tour de France stages (Mont Ventoux, the stage 20 time trial and the final stage in Paris), plus Gent–Wevelgem, the Amstel Gold Race and an Olympic silver medal in the road race. In 2022 he won the Tour’s points classification and three stages, and he won the E3 Saxo Classic in both 2022 and 2023. He has also won silver at the road world championships in 2020 and 2023.

Injuries have interrupted several seasons. A crash in the 2019 Tour time trial at Pau ended his race, and in 2024 a fall at Dwars door Vlaanderen broke his collarbone and ribs. Later that year he won three stages at the Vuelta a España before leaving the race after a crash on stage 16. In 2025 he won stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia into Siena, which gave him a stage win in all three Grand Tours, and then won the final stage of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées.

A fractured ankle from a cyclo-cross crash in Mol in early January delayed his 2026 preparation. In the spring he was third at Milan–San Remo, second at Dwars door Vlaanderen and fourth at the Tour of Flanders. On 12 April he won Paris–Roubaix after going clear with Tadej Pogačar and winning the sprint in the Roubaix velodrome, his second Monument after Milan–San Remo in 2020. An elbow wound from a training crash in June became infected: he won stage 5 of the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes on 11 June but left the race, and he missed the Tour de France. He returned at the Danmark Rundt, winning the first three stages and the overall title, and at the Vuelta he won stages 13 and 15 and the points classification.