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One week after the world cyclocross championships, racing continued this weekend with the ultimate occasion of the Superprestige sequence in Middelkerke on Saturday and the second-to-last spherical of the X2O Trofee in Lille on Sunday.
The heavy rain turned the often sandy Middelkerke course right into a mud fest within the closing occasion of the Superprestige on Saturday.
Lucinda Brand (Baloise Trek Lions) gained by a large margin, crossing the end line 1:15 forward of second place Laura Verdonschot. Ceylin Alvarado (Alpecin-Deceuninck) rounded out the rostrum in third place.
Model took management straight from the beginning, and a small mistake by Alvarado was sufficient for the Dutch rider to get a niche. After the primary lap, Model had 25 seconds on Alvarado and Annemarie Worst. On the second lap, Alvarado dropped Worst whereas Verdonschot was steadily transferring ahead via riders.
With two laps to go, Model was on her option to victory with Verdonschot in second place. Hearth is inimitable. With two laps to go, she has nearly doubled her lead over Verdonschot, who’s presently in second place and Alvarado in third. Worst completed in fifth place.
Alvarado gained the ultimate classification of the Telenet Superprestige for the third time in her profession.
Eli Iserbyt claimed the forty ninth cyclocross victory of his profession forward of his Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal teammate Michael Vanthourenhout who was second. Joris Nieuwenhuis (Baloise Trek Lions) completed third.
Nieuwenhuis accelerated off the entrance within the first lap and established a small hole to chasers which included Iserbyt, Niels Vandeputte, and Jens Adams. Midway via the race, the Dutch champion solely had 25 seconds on the chasers whereas Vanthourenhout was transferring up with Lars van der Haar on his wheel.
The Belgian champion made his transfer on the sixth lap, catching and passing riders till he linked and dropped Nieuwenhuis one lap later. European champion Vanthourenhout handed Nieuwenhuis to take second place.
It was the fourth Superprestige victory for Iserbyt, and he additionally gained the classification of the Telenet Superprestige for the second time.
Fem van Empel and Niels Vandeputte win X2O Trofee Lille
Fem van Empel (Visma-Lease a Bike) made it 19 wins for the season on the X2O Trofee Lille – Krawatencross on Sunday. The world champion soloed to victory in her closing cyclocross race of the season, forward of Lucinda Model (Baloise Trek Lions) who completed second. Laura Verdonschot rounded off the rostrum.
Van Empel set a excessive tempo early, with solely Model in a position to briefly maintain her wheel. After just one and a half laps, Van Empel took off solo and Model then had to focus on the second podium spot.
Verdonschot fought her option to the third spot after a poor begin and was initially joined by Annemarie Worst and Leonie Bentveld, however Verdonschot’s tempo proved to be too excessive. The Deceuster-Bonache rider progressively closed the hole to Model, however was unable to attach.
Along with her seventh X2O Trofee victory, Van Empel secured the general title within the sequence regardless that she is going to miss the eighth and closing spherical in Brussels.
Within the males’s race, Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Decueninck) claimed the primary UCI C1 cyclocross victory of his profession forward of Joris Nieuwenhuis and Joran Wyseure. X2O Trofee chief Lars van der Haar (Baloise Trek Lions) completed fourth, and retains the sequence lead.
Van der Haar had began nicely and shaped the main group along with 5 different riders till progressively, cracks began to look within the entrance group below strain by the work of Nieuwenhuis and Wyseure. Solely Vandeputte may comply with the duo, Van der Haar was pressured to chase.
Midway via the race, Nieuwenhuis crashed leaving Wyseure and Vandeputte on the entrance. Nieuwenhuis briefly joined Van der Haar within the chase group earlier than as soon as once more catching the 2 riders within the entrance. The trio was collectively as they entered the bell lap. Vandeputte put in a robust assault and was in a position to maintain it to the end line.
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