2021 men’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Male Team 27 Feb

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

200 Kilometers
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TV

The race will be broadcast live on Eurosport 2 and GCN+, at 14.00 CET on Saturday 27th February.

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Timetable

The neutralized start in Gent is scheduled at 11.05am on Saturday 27th February; the finish in Ninove is expected at 16.00-16.28.

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Social Media

The race’s official Twitter account is @OmloopHNB; the hashtags are #OHN21 and #OHNmen.

Route

Gent - Ninove (200km)
27 February

Analysis

The Northern Classics are back – just four months after last year’s. Professional cycling returns to the Belgian cobblestones in its traditional spring slot after a quite different, ‘autumnish’ campaign in 2020, where the Movistar Team started setting the foundation of its renewed gamble on one-day events. And in 2021, the Blues will line up at the Omloop with the man who aims at leading the team in the long term: Spaniard Iván García Cortina.

The removal of the Tiegemberg is the main change on this year’s Omloop route, over 200km from Gante to Ninove, with thirteen climbs and as many cobbled sectors. Even if evenly distributed over the course, the hardest difficulties are mostly placed into the last 50km, after the final passage through Oudenaarde and the Wolvenberg (145km) climb, followed by the Haaghoek cobbles (162km), the subsequent Leberg ascent and the steep Berendries (169km) and Elverenberg (172km).

The decisive climbs, however, should be the last two, in a remembrance of the 2000s Ronde van Vlaanderen route, with the ascents to the Kapelmuur (183km) and Bosberg (187km). A brutal, well-known final selection, with no hiding place.