Briton Stephen Williams won the Flèche Wallonne ahead of Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin. Several favorites, including Tom Pidcock, winner of the Amstel Gold Race, were eliminated halfway through the race when a deluge of sleet fell on the peloton.
The deluge forced many riders to abandon and others to postpone their ambitions for the Liège-Bastogne-Liège next Sunday. The 27-year-old runner made the difference in a small peloton of around thirty runners by starting 300 meters from the line in the formidable Huy wall (1.3 km at 9.6% average), climbed four times on Wednesday. Four other French people finished in the top ten with Benoît Cosnefroy (4th), Romain Grégoire (7th), Dorion Godon (8th), and Guillaume Martin (10th). The Belgian Maxim Van Gils won the race in second place.