Cyclo-cross. Bike. X2O Trofee – Fem van Empel wins GP Sven Nys after a crazy race

Cyclo-cross. Bike. X2O Trofee – Fem van Empel wins GP Sven Nys after a crazy race
Cyclo-cross. Bike. X2O Trofee – Fem van Empel wins GP Sven Nys after a crazy race

This New Year’s Day, there is no respite for cyclocross riders. Plowing specialists gathered near Baal in Belgium to compete GP Sven Nys and the 5th round of X²O Bathroom Trophy. At the end of a crazy and thrilling race on an ultra-demanding Belgian course, Fem van Empel started the year 2025 as it ended 2024, with a 3rd consecutive victory! But his 9th success in total this winter was undoubtedly both the hardest and the most beautiful to achieve, at the end of a totally crazy scenario and a memorable finish.

Victim of a fall in the first round and pushed back to around 30 seconds from the lead, the world champion made her comeback gradually before crucifying herself on the wire. Marc Lucinda (Baloise Glowi Lions) – in the lead the entire race – in the final straight, at the cost of an exceptional neck-to-neck sprint which allowed him to get ahead of the Dutch champion on the line. A little fairer in the end, Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) is satisfied with 3rd place, 21 seconds behind his two compatriots. The Batavian trio has opened up an abysmal gap over the rest of the competition, the Belgian Sanne Cant (Crelan-Corendon) crossed the line in 4th position, 3’35” behind the winner of the day! In the general ranking, Marc Lucinda Despite everything, he still largely retains the lead with 9’44” ahead of his tormentor of the day.


 

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