Van Wilder soars into top ten after final day of Paris-Nice

Race report | Sunday 16 March 2025 - 18:29

Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian took his most important result of the year so far.

Ilan Van Wilder scored his first overall classification top ten in a World Tour stage race since last year’s Tour de Romandie after an impressive ride on the explosive stage 8 of Paris-Nice, which tackled Col de la Porte, Côte de Peille, Col d’Èze and Col des Quatre Chemins, all crammed in just 120 kilometers.

The 24-year-old started the day in 12th place overall, but thanks to a consistent ride and a remarkable fighting spirit, he overcame an early crash and the hard gradients of this short but intense day and managed to take ninth on the emblematic Promenade des Anglais, a result that helped Ilan upgrade his position in the final ranking, which was won by Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike).

“At one point today I didn’t know if I could still continue, because another rider hit my front wheel and I crashed, while my chain came off. Fortunately, Max Schachmann was there and brought me back, which wasn’t an easy task, as in the front the pace they were pushing was really hard. After joining the peloton again, I tried to recover as well as possible, and when we began climbing and I got dropped, I just rode my own pace and this helped me bridge across again. At that moment I realised it was a hard stage for everyone and that I just had to keep pushing.”

“In the final part I felt quite good and I’m happy with the way I finished the race. It’s the hardest stage race I have ridden in my career, full gas from start to finish and with some horrible weather along the way. I’m grateful to the team for their support and proud of the way I fought, without ever giving up”, said Ilan after Paris-Nice, the third World Tour stage race of his career that he concluded in the top ten after least year’s UAE Tour and Tour de Romandie.

 

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Race details

1 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
2:48:37
2 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:29
3 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:35
4 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
1:01
5 Clément Champoussin
XDS Astana Team
1:01
6 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:01
7 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
1:01
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:04
9 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:40
10 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
1:40
35 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
4:30
78 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
13:31
79 Ayco Bastiaens
Soudal Quick-Step
13:31
93 Dries Van Gestel
Soudal Quick-Step
15:51
DNF Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step
-02:48:37
DNF Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step
-02:48:37
1 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
26:26:42
2 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:15
3 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
1:58
4 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
2:17
5 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
3:03
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
3:57
7 Clément Champoussin
XDS Astana Team
4:00
8 Harold Tejada Canacue
XDS Astana Team
4:53
9 Tobias Foss
INEOS Grenadiers
4:59
10 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
5:26
17 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
10:55
76 Dries Van Gestel
Soudal Quick-Step
50:27
86 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
59:02
102 Ayco Bastiaens
Soudal Quick-Step
1:12:01
1 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
62 pt
2 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
57 pt
3 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
41 pt
4 Axel Zingle
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
36 pt
5 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
33 pt
6 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
28 pt
7 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
27 pt
8 Timo Kielich
Alpecin - Deceuninck
26 pt
9 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
22 pt
10 Emilien Jeannière
Team TotalEnergies
22 pt
26 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
32 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Thomas Gachignard
Team TotalEnergies
21 pt
2 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
20 pt
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
20 pt
4 Alexandre Delettre
Team TotalEnergies
17 pt
5 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
14 pt
6 Tobias Foss
INEOS Grenadiers
14 pt
7 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
12 pt
8 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
12 pt
9 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
11 pt
10 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
28 Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Florian Lipowitz
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
26:27:57
2 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
1:02
3 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
4:11
4 Pablo Castrillo Zapater
Movistar Team
4:30
5 Raúl García Pierna
8:52
6 Iván Romeo Abad
Movistar Team
13:33
7 Lenny Martinez
Bahrain - Victorious
16:13
8 Joshua Tarling
INEOS Grenadiers
17:06
9 Johannes Kulset
Uno-X Mobility
21:13
10 Georg Steinhauser
EF Education - EasyPost
29:13
1 INEOS Grenadiers 79:29:04
2 Movistar Team 15:32
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 24:30
4 XDS Astana Team 25:20
5 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 25:51
6 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 31:05
7 Groupama - FDJ 40:13
8 Team Jayco AlUla 45:01
9 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 45:50
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 53:02

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