After the great French performances of Célia Gery et Aubin Sparfel during the Hope races, the European Cyclo-cross Championships concluded in style with the Elite events this Sunday afternoon! After the victory of Fem van Empel among the women, the men closed these European Championships. In the absence of Mathieu van der Poel and of Wout Van Aertit was another driver who won, Thibau Nys (Belgium). The Belgian won alone. Driven by his audience, Felipe Orts takes the silver medal, That is, Iserby completes the podium.
Video – Célia Gery, U23 European champion
The race summary
On a fairly smooth course, the race quickly became a duel between Belgians and Dutch. That is, Iserby (Belgium) and the winner in 2023, Michael Vanthourenhout (Belgium) are the first to attack, but they are always well followed by Pim Ronhaar (The Netherlands). Apart from Belgium and the Netherlands, France and Spain are also represented at the front through Rémi Lelandais et Felipe Orts. Lars van der Haar (Netherlands) accelerated in turn on the fourth lap, but without managing to escape.
A mi-course, Felipe Orts et Thibau Nys (Belgium) but they are finally joined by van der Haar, Vandeputte (Belgium) and Izerbyt. More Nys et Orts return to the same place two turns ago or van der Haar gets off the bike while they stay on their mounts. The understanding is not good behind, and the gap rises to 11 seconds with two laps remaining. In the last passage of the boards, Felipe Orts makes the move and gets off his bike. He then loses a few meters on Nys, who goes alone. Behind, Iserbyt cours van der Haar and will get third place. Vandeputte termine 4e, van der Haar fifth. David Menutfirst Frenchman, came to get a magnificent 6th place.
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