Mathieu Van der Poel sends Wout Van Aert over the top and puts his signature on Loenhout’s classic Azencross, a test valid for the Challenge X2O Trofee Badkamers. The challenge between the two cyclocross giants was splendid, as they greeted the rest of the group already on the third lap, sparking the enthusiasm of the large audience present. Their head-to-head lasts just under one lap: it is then that the world champion decides to change pace, accelerates decisively and manages to get away from the Belgian from Visma Lease a Bike.
At that point Van Der Poel flies for the sixth consecutive victory – a record – ahead of Niels Vandeputte with Joris Nieuwenhuis completing the podium. Great performance by Gioele Bertolini who achieved an extremely impressive sixth place at the end of a great race. Van Aert was decidedly unlucky and was forced to deal with a double mechanical accident: if he managed to recover after the first, the second cost him dearly, seeing him slip to thirteenth position and then climb back up to tenth place.
ORDER OF ARRIVAL
01 VAN DER POEL Mathieu – 57:48
02 VANDEPUTTE Niels – + 46
03 NIEUWENHUIS Joris – + 57
04 KAMP Ryan – + 57
05 AERTS Toon – + 57
06 BERTOLINI Gioele – + 59
07 FERDINANDE Anton – + 01:00
08 MASON Cameron – + 01:03
09 LAURYSSEN Yorben – + 01:15
10 VAN AERT Wout – + 01:26
11 JANSSEN Wout – + 01:26
12 SWEET Daan – + 01:28
13 VANDEBOSCH Show – + 01:30
14 MY Thomas – + 01:48
15 MEEUSEN Tom – + 01:58
16 CONCRETE Damien – + 02:24
17 FERRI Thomas – + 02:53
18 AGOSTINACCHIO Filippo – + 03:06
19 THEY KNOW Sander – + 03:07
20 ODA Hijiri – + 03:15
21 BERCKMOES Jenno – + 03:15
22 BARNES Dan – + 03:37
23 JUTEL Paul-François – + 03:43
24 LEMARDELE Maxence – + 03:45
25 SMITS Rune – + 03:53
26 STORMS Miel – + 03:56
27 HORNY Clément – + 04:04
28 DELNOIJE Remon – + 04:45
29 ROSENDAHL Karl-Erik – + 04:54
30 GAILLARD Florian – + 04:56
31 BRONSWIJK Mike – + 05:26
32 LEMBRECHT’S Ruben – + 06:38
33 FROM THE MORTEL Sjoerd – + 06:38
34 REPAIR Valentin – + 07:33
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