{"id":3058,"date":"2026-02-23T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:43:10","slug":"participants-kuurne-brussels-kuurne-2026-no-wout-van-aert-on-provisional-start-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3058\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2026 | No Wout van Aert on provisional start list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/first-provisional-start-lists-for-omloop-het-nieuwsblad-revealed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Omloop Het Nieuwsblad<\/a>, the provisional start list for the second race of Opening Weekend has also been released. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/kuurne-brussels-kuurne\" title=\"Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne<\/a>, many of the same riders who are expected to race the day before are listed again, but there are also a few fresh sprinters added to the mix. IDLProCycling.com rounds up the key names and talking points.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is still a provisional start list \u2014 and plenty can change between now and the sign-on in Kortrijk. For example, Alpecin\u2013Premier Tech have not entered defending winner Jasper Philipsen on this preliminary list, but the Belgian is still expected to race on Sunday as part of the team\u2019s Opening Weekend plans.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams have not submitted any riders to the organisers yet either: Picnic PostNL and Lidl\u2013Trek. In Lidl\u2013Trek\u2019s case, however, it is already known that they intend to bring their sprint ace Jonathan Milan to the start in Kortrijk.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable detail is the absence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/wout-van-aert\" title=\"Wout van Aert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wout van Aert<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=84&amp;y=2026&amp;k=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">provisional <\/a>start list. The Belgian leader of Visma | Lease a Bike appears set to skip Kuurne in favour of Le Samyn on Tuesday, although the final decision has not yet been confirmed publicly. Visma | Lease a Bike do feature on the current list with Christophe Laporte and Matthew Brennan included.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/matthew-brennan-wout-van-aert.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"matthew-brennan-wout-van-aert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Well Brennan, no Van Aert on provisional list for Kuurne.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of sprinters on Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne start list<\/p>\n<p>Alongside riders expected to double up from Omloop \u2014 such as Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step), Arnaud De Lie (Lotto\u2013Intermarch\u00e9), Biniam Girmay (NSN) and Jordi Meeus (Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe) \u2014 several squads are bringing a \u2018fresh\u2019 sprinter into the line-up, including Tudor (Maikel Zijlaard), Bahrain Victorious (Phil Bauhaus), Jayco AlUla (Pascal Ackermann) and Cofidis (Milan Fretin).<\/p>\n<p>One WorldTour team will not be racing Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne again in 2026: INEOS Grenadiers, who have chosen to skip the event for years.<\/p>\n<p>Participants Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the provisional start list for the second race of Opening Weekend has also been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,1682,2608,2607],"class_list":{"0":"post-3058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-kuurne-brussels-kuurne","11":"tag-wout-van-aert"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}