An old school sprint
Scheldeprijs is Flanders' oldest one-day classic, as the first edition was held in 1907, six years before the first Ronde Van Vlaanderen. For this 2021 edition, the race starts in Tereneuzen, in the Netherlands, and runs along the Schelde river to the Belgian town of Schoten, where cyclists will do four laps of a circuit that includes the cobblestone section of Broekstraat as the only difficulty.
The race is completely flat and has been solved in a final sprint in recent years, so the startlist is full of fast men.
Among the favorites to victory are Sam Bennet (1200), Pascal Ackermann (1200), Elia Viviani (1000), Arnaud Demare (1000), Jasper Philipsen (1000), Cees Bol (600), Giacomo Nizzolo (600), Tim Merlier (400), Bryan Coquard (400), Nacer Bouhanni (400), Edward Theuns (400), Kristoffer Halvorsen (400), André Greipel (400), John Degenkolb (600) or Marc Sarreau (400).