Meeus' day looked compromised when he missed the front selection on the climbs around Geraardsbergen, but his team's chase pulled him back into contention. From there Red Bull controlled the run-in, protected him through a crash at 4 km, and launched him with a strong lead-out. He held his line against late surges from Fretin and Girmay to take the win.

• 60 kmMissed the climb-induced front selection before the peloton was brought back together
• 1 kmLed out by Red Bull and held off Fretin and Girmay for the win

Rather than chasing the win himself, Meeus turned lead-out man, working with Danny van Poppel to deliver Laurence Pithie through the chaos of the crash-split finale. It was a selfless ride from the stage-1 winner that kept Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe at the front of both the stage and the GC, with Meeus himself still inside three seconds of the new race leader.

• 1 kmDrove the Red Bull lead-out alongside van Poppel after a crash inside the final km split the bunch

Defending the leader's jersey he had won on stage 1, Meeus was back in the mix in the rain-hit Libramont-Chevigny finale but couldn't match Oliver's late move, finishing fifth on the stage same time as the lead group. He surrendered the overall lead to Oliver but stayed in close contention near the top of a GC separated by only a handful of seconds.

Meeus opened the race with the stage 1 win on the cobbled Thuin wall and the first leader's jersey, confirming strong form after the Four Days of Dunkirk amid transfer-market talk of a 2027 move to Lidl-Trek. He lost the lead to Oliver on stage 2, then selflessly switched to lead-out duty on stage 3, helping deliver Laurence Pithie to a second Red Bull win. A stage victory and a productive supporting role, even without a GC reward.

• Won stage 1 in Lobbes and took the first leader's jersey
• Led out Pithie on stage 3 for a second Red Bull stage win

Meeus delivered exactly the kind of result that has made him one of the peloton's most dependable hard-route finishers, handling the repeated cobbled Thuin ascents and then winning the reduced sprint in Lobbes. It was a continuation of his strong spring form after the Four Days of Dunkirk, and it put him into the leader's jersey on the opening day. The win came amid heavy transfer-market chatter linking him to Lidl-Trek as a lead-out and finisher for 2027.

• Survived multiple ascents of the cobbled Thuin wall (0.3 km at 8.7%) that reduced the bunch
• Won the reduced bunch sprint in Lobbes ahead of Foldager and Heiduk

Meeus delivered the win Red Bull wanted to cap the week, dominating the bunch sprint in Dunkerque with what his team called 'absolute dominance.' Set up by lead-out man Danny Van Poppel — who held on for second — Meeus had the legs to win comfortably ahead of a quality field of fast men. It was his second victory of the 2026 season and a fitting finish to a race his team controlled from the opening stage, where Pithie had already won. The result reaffirmed Meeus as a reliable closer in the bunch gallops as he builds toward his summer objectives.

• 0.2 kmLaunched off Van Poppel's lead-out and powered clear for a dominant sprint win

Meeus was Red Bull's designated fast man and closed the race in style, dominating the flat Stage 5 bunch sprint in Dunkerque ahead of his own lead-out man Danny van Poppel for a team 1-2. It was his second win of the 2026 season and the perfect bookend to a week his team controlled from the opening day, where Pithie had already won. Across the hillier and cobbled middle stages Meeus shepherded through with the gruppetto-adjacent bunches, saving his legs for the day that suited him. A clean, reliable sprint victory that underlined his role as a closer for the team.

• 0.2 kmStage 5 — launched off Van Poppel's lead-out and won the Dunkerque sprint with clear margin

Meeus came to Dunkirk as one of the marked fast finishers but the crosswinds and Shmidt's late solo denied him a clean sprint. He made the reduced front group and, with the win up the road, contested the dash for the minor places, taking third at +4 seconds behind Gautherat. His young teammate Alessio Magagnotti was right alongside him in fourth. A podium on a hard, wet day, though not the bunch-sprint scenario that would have suited him best.

• 14 kmSurvived the crosswind-thinned front group as Shmidt attacked, then sprinted it out for third

Meeus is the team's fast finisher who can survive the longer one-day races, and his Roubaix played out exactly to that label — never in the very front of the race, never out of it. Inner Ring's most memorable line on him is the one that captures Red Bull's day: 'Only Ganna was thirty seconds behind and closing, towing Jordi Meeus across.' He used Ganna's wheel inside the final 20 km to make the late chase. Didn't quite bridge to the chasers behind the duo.

• 20 kmOn Ganna's wheel in the late long-range chase

Came through the late crashes safely and was launched into his sprint from slightly further back than the front lead-out trains. Opened early but couldn't match Merlier's late surge, finishing outside the top placings.

• 0.3 kmLaunched his sprint from further back in the reduced bunch

Got into the right position for the uphill finish and led the chase to Philipsen, finishing second on the same time. Beaten only on raw top speed in a sprinter's semi-classic.

• 0.2 kmSecond over the line, beaten for speed by Philipsen

Red Bull's fast man survived into the reduced front group and took tenth in the sprint. A modest top-ten on a finish that suited a pure sprinter only if they could hold the climbs — Meeus did, but couldn't get into the leading positions for the dash to the line.

• 195 kmTenth in the reduced bunch sprint

Meeus was second to Magnier for the second time in the race, again unable to find a way past the Frenchman. Two runner-up finishes left him as the week's best of the rest in the sprints.

• Second again behind Magnier, same time

Meeus was second to Magnier on both sprint stages, the consistent runner-up of the week but unable to find a win. Strong early-season sprint form, just shy of the top step each time.

• Stages 1 & 4 — second behind Magnier both times

Meeus was the closest challenger to Magnier in the opening sprint, taking second and the runner-up bonus. He would finish second to the same rider again on stage 4, leaving the week as the nearly-man of the Algarve sprints.

• Second in the Tavira sprint, beaten by Magnier