After 10 years of domination of Mathieu van der Poel and of Wout Van Aertthe Diegem circuit saw a new winner this Monday evening, in the presence of Laurens Sweeck ! At the end of a crazy race and a thrilling finale, the Belgian team Crelan-Corendon won this 6th round of the Telenet Super prestige !
Video – The day before, Van der Poel won in Besançon
A crazy race, the wrong operation for Vanthourenhout
Contrary to what we usually see on cyclo-cross, the race had a lot of difficulty settling down. Two laps from the end, there were almost still 10 of them able to win on this legendary cross. But after several attacks, three riders escaped in the last lap: Laurens Sweeck (Crelan-Corendon), Thibau Nys (Baloise Trek Lions) and Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Deceuninck). After a fierce battle with Nys, Laurens Sweeck managed to take the final stairs in the lead, then start the sprint. And Nys failed to take the wheel, which allowed Sweeck to go for this magnificent victory, with forceps. In the last 100 meters, Nys completely exploded and even gave up 2nd place to Vandeputte.
In the general ranking of this Telenet Super prestigewe always find Niels Vandeputtewith 74 points. But the bad operation of the day is to the credit of Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal), which was only 3 points behind Vandeputtebut who took no points this Monday evening, after a problem occurred off camera in the penultimate lap. The runnerAlpecin-Deceuninck now ahead Van der Haar (69 points, Baloise Trek Lions), Sweek (60 points) and finally Vanthouren wood (57 points).