Fem Van Empel unrivaled a Gaverein the sixth test of Cyclocross World Cup 2024/2025. After missing the last three events due to a fall in training, the world champion of Visma | Lease a Bike she returned to the race in style, dominating from the first of the five scheduled laps. The 22-year-old freed herself from the company of Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck), the only one to manage to follow her initially, towards the end of the second round, and thus flew towards her seventh victory of the season. Behind him, the Cup leader finished 37″ behind Lucinda Brand (Baloise Trek Lions), who in the last two laps started a good battle for second place with Pieterse, then third at 46″.
All the others are over a minute late, starting with the young ones Blanka Kata Vas (SD Worx-Protime) e Zoe Backstedt (Canyon//SRAM), fourth and fifth respectively, while she finished ninth Marie Schreiber (SD Worx-Protime). Brand thus increases his margin in the general classification over both the Luxembourg and the British, now 44 and 54 points away from the Dutch, increasingly leader of the UCI event with 185 points, while Van Empel climbs back to fourth place with 129 points.
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