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Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) highway a flawless race to say the victory on the penultimate spherical of the Superprestige sequence in Diegem.
“It went rather well, and so I am completely satisfied about that,” Pieterse stated on the end line.
Pieterse pulled away from her rivals on the opening lap and constructed a lead out to greater than 26 seconds to take a solo win forward of Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who moved into the sequence’ general lead forward of the ultimate spherical in Noordzeecross.
Inge van der Heijden (Crelan-Corendon) completed in third place greater than 34 seconds again.
The way it unfolded
The penultimate spherical of the Superprestige sequence in Diegem was held beneath the night floodlights in entrance of large crowds who got here out to observe the nighttime race.
Zoe Backstedt (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB) was the quickest off the beginning line and led the sector into the uphill first part of the course and onto the grass.
She was rapidly handed within the first off-camber banking by Inge van der Heijden (Crelan-Corendon) and Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck).
Van der Heijden and Pieterse gained a small hole as Backstedt misplaced floor and joined a chase group with sequence chief Annemarie Worst (Cyclocross Reds), sequence runner-up Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Blanka Vas (SD Worx), Sanne Cant Crelan-Corendon), and Marie Schreiber (SD Worx).
Pieterse carried velocity and flawless approach throughout the opening lap of racing, hopping the limitations, quickest up the steps, and rapidly shedding Van der Heijden from her wheel.
Pieterse prolonged her lead out to 17 seconds over Van der Heijden by the beginning of the third lap of racing.
Alvarado quickly linked with Van der Heijden within the hunt for sequence factors and for solo chief Pieterse. Additional again, Backstedt led a gaggle of 4 that additionally included Vas, Cant and Schreiber.
Pieterse entered the fourth of six laps with a 21-second lead over Alvarado, who had already distanced Van der Heijden by a further six seconds.
There was no stopping Pieterse from defending her title to win a second consecutive Superprestige in Diegem, crossing the end line with greater than 26 seconds to spare over runner-up and new sequence chief Alvarado.
Outcomes
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