After the success of Lucinda Brand on the women's race of the penultimate round of the Super prestigein Gullegem, it was time to Wout Van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike). The Belgian was eagerly awaited this Saturday, for his second cyclo-cross race this winter. Fourth for his recovery at Loenhout, Van Aert did much better since he won alone in front of That is, Iserby et Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauces – Cibel Clémentines).
Video – Wout Van Aert trained well before his return
The summary of the cross
A large group of 9 riders broke away from the first lap including Wout Van Aert, Laurens Sweeck (Crelan-Corendon), Eli Iserbyt, Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen – Cibel Clémentines) or the French Clement Venturini (Arkea – B&B Hotels). Only the leader of the general classification, Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Deceuninck), missing. The runners remain grouped while Niels Vandeputte comes back little by little. In the 4th round, Van Aert moves into the lead and begins to accelerate.
Van Aert isolates himself in the lead with Vanthouren wood. Joran Wyseure et That is, Iserby come a little further while Lars van der Haar falls, dislocates his shoulder… and puts it back in place with the help of his bike. At the end of the fifth round, Izerbyt et Clocks return and a quartet is created. It is finally Izerbyt et Van Aert who break away and go to play for victory. In the last round, the two men go blow for blow. Faced with the terrible tempo of Van Aert, Iserbyt commits a first then a second fault, too many to hope to win. Van Aert finally raises his arms alone, Izerbyt et Vanthouren wood completes the podium. Niels Vandeputte held on well and took fifth place.
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