Benoît Cosnefroy of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team celebrates victory at 2024 De Brabantse Pijl (Image credit: Getty Images)
De Brabantse Pijl took place April 10, 2024 for a 64th edition, a firm fixture as a midweek Flemish spring Classics event. French speakers in nearby Wallonia still call the race La Flèche Brabançonne, 'The Brabant Arrow'.
This semi-Classic forms a bridge between the cobbled Classics and the Ardennes Classics. It has its fair share of cobblestones but also pushes riders with its hillier terrain, marking the change from the cobbled Classics to the Ardennes Classics. The race continued for a fifth year at the UCI ProSeries level, after being a 1.HC event for the 10 previous years.
On the calendar, Brabantse Pijl has held a traditional position on the Wednesday after Paris-Roubaix and before the Amstel Gold Race. In 2022 when the date of Paris-Roubaix was shifted because of local elections, Brabantse Pijl shifted slightly to go after Amstel Gold Race and serve as the lead into Paris-Roubaix.
Edwig Van Hooydonck holds the record for most victories with four between 1987 and 1995. In 2023 Dorian Godon (AG2R Citroën) won De Brabantse Pijl after 195km and 25 climbs, outsprinting breakaway companion Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) across the final S-Bocht climb to the finish once the two got away with 15km to go.
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Brabantse Pijl 2025 route
De Brabantse Pijl starts in Beersel in 2025 in the provincial park of Huizingen. The peloton heads toward Lennik before returning via Beersel to Overijse, where they will face three laps of a hilly circuit, part of which was used in the 2021 UCI Road World Championships.
There are four laps of a 19.8km finish circuit around Overijse, with a series of four climbs that are a signature of the race - Hertstraat, Moskesstraat, Holstheide and then the S-bend. The peloton finish with the 1.3km climb of the S-bend on the way to the finish on the Brusselsesteenweg.
