Premiere day for Niels Vandeputte and Marie Schreiber in Hulst

David Menut in a good 10th place

From the second lap, on the slope, he fell, his front wheel slipping into the mud of this corner of Zeeland and as nothing was going well, he did it again, on the next lap, in the same place. The World Cup leader was not the only one and Thibau Nys (Baloise Trek Lions), Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal), Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP), Pim Ronhaar (Baloise Trek Lion) and the Spaniard Felipe Orts (Ridley Racing Team) also experienced setbacks, even if the latter maintained the pressure in the penultimate lap on Vandeputte, challenged by his efforts since the start of the event while the Frenchman David Menut achieved a nice top 10 (10th).