Gent-Wevelgem Women 2025 route

Distance | 169.1 kilometres |
Start | Menin Gate, Ypres |
Finish | Vanackerestraat, Wevelgem |
Start time | 13:20 CET |
Finish time | 17:47 CET |
The 2025 edition of the Gent-Wevelgem Women's WorldTour race uses the same course as in previous years, starting under the Menin Gate in remembrance of soldiers killed on the Flanders Fields during World War I.
The race is slightly shorter by 2.1km of official roll-out from Ypres. The first climb comes after 96.5km on a large loop that includes four ascents: the Scherpenberg, Baneberg, Monteberg and the first trip over the Kemmelberg from the slightly easier Belvedère side comes at kilometre 113.1.
Another lap of the circuit sends the women's peloton again over the Scherpenberg and Baneberg, with the final steeper ascent of the Kemmelberg from Ossuaire with 34.3km to go.
Gent-Wevelgem Women 2025 Climbs
- Scherpenberg, kilometre 96.5 (72.4km to go)
- Baneberg, kilometre 105.3 (63.6km to go)
- Monteberg, kilometre 111.2 (57.7km to go)
- Kemmelberg (Belvedère), kilometre 113.1 (55.8km to go)
- Scherpenberg, kilometre 120.5 (48.4km to go)
- Baneberg, kilometre 129.3 (39.6km to go)
- Kemmelberg (Ossuaire), kilometre 134.6 (34.3km to go)
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