This page covers Karlijn Swinkels's 2026 season race-by-race, including results, roles, key moments, and incidents for each race. Each entry is a spoiler for the corresponding race. Read no further if you intend to watch any of them unspoiled.
Best of the three UAE Team ADQ riders in the top eight, taking sixth from the first chase group. Part of the squad's strongest collective showing of the cobbled spring.
UAE Team ADQ's best finisher in ninth, present at the front of the chase that led the pursuit of the leading duo. The team set much of the tempo behind without ever quite closing the gap, and Swinkels came home with the front chase seven seconds down.
Swinkels was one of only four riders able to follow Wiebes' Kemmelberg acceleration, putting UAE Team ADQ into the front group with two riders. She sprinted to third on the Vanackerestraat, the same time as the winner — a strong cobbled-Classic result that confirmed her form on the hilly one-day terrain even if the numbers couldn't be turned into a win against Wiebes.
Swinkels was UAE Team ADQ's best on the day, holding the front chase group over the closing climbs and taking sixth in the sprint into Ninove.