Van der Poel wins an epic battle against Van Aert in Benidorm, with a great Felipe Orts (9th)

Passed the exam with a grade. Almost twelve years later the Cyclocross World Cup returned to Spanish soil, in this case to Benidormon an atypical circuit and different from what the Belgians and Dutch are used to, but did not leave anyone indifferent.

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Neither the more than 12,000 people, many of them foreigners, who enjoyed a good morning of cycling with up to five races, or the runners themselves, who had to give everything they could in a circuit where they had to do it. go nine laps, with a clear predominance of dirt tracks, with a sector of sand, sections of stairs, grass, steps, and very technical areas, a total cyclocross circuit, combining the old and the new CX, as pointed out in the MD Pascual Momparlerthe national road and cyclocross coach and event leader.

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The last fireworks of the party Benidorm It was put to the elite men’s test, in a two-part race with great differences. A first where the British and world champion Thomas Pidcock ordered a test and a second in which, after warming up the engines, van der poel Y Van Aert They gave a new recital, in which they tried to join Iserbyt Y sweeck. The latter finished 4th and is now the World Cup general.

STUPIDITY FOR FELIPE ORTS

Spanish champion Felipe Orts scored a creditable ninth place, in what is his second best result this season in CX’s highest regularity competition, after being 6th on November 13 in Beekse Bergen (Netherlands), a race Won by the previous World Cup. champion, the Belgian Laurens Sweeck. The Burgos-BH runner continues to improve in this specialty and is closer to the best every day

The Belgian Van Aert He came from winning the last three cyclocross events and van der poel I will not allow the corridor of Jumbo-Visma stay away from here Both passed and reviewed the last lap to remember, with a final impossible reach on the rise of the corridor of Alpine. Van Aert stuck to the steering wheel of van der poeland until the last moment he tried to defeat him, but in the circuit of Benidorm the straight is very short and therefore he cannot challenge the sprint as he has done at other times this season.

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Van Aert came out of the final turn so hard and fast that he almost hit the fence, he was unable to dispute a great victory for Van der Poel, his fifth of the cyclocross season and his fourth in World Cup of this campaign, which certainly gives morale to those World championship which will take place next February in your country, Netherlandsand where the 2022 champion, the British Thomas Pidcock has already said that he will not go.

RANKINGS

elite men
​1.Mathieu Van der Poel (PB/Alpecin-Deceuninck) 1h
​2. Wout Van Aert (Bel/Jumbo-Visma), id
​3.Eli Iserbyt (Bel/Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoial), at 9″
​4. Laurens Sweeck (Bel/Crelan-Fristads), 20″
​5.Tom Pidcock (Gbr/Ineos-Grenadiers) at 34″
…
​9.Felipe Orts (ESP/Burgos-BH) at 1’17”
​21.Kevin Suárez (ESP/Nesta-MMR CX Team), at 3’07”
​31. Mario Junquera (ESP/Unicaja Banco-Gijón), at 5’01”
​34.Martín Mata (ESP/-), at 5’12”
​35.Tomàs Misser (ESP/-), at 5’49”
​37.David Dominguez (ESP/-)
38. Adrian Aranda (ESP/-)
40. Samuel González (ESP/-)
elite woman
​1.Fem Vanm Empel (PB/-) 52’47”
​2.Puck Pieterse (PB/Alpecin-Deceuninck), 3″
​3.Shirin Van Anrooij (PB/Baloise Trek Lions), 13″
…
​22.Lucía González (ESP/Nesta-MMR CX Team), at 3’38”
​29.Sofía Rodríguez (ESP/Nesta-MMR CX Team), at 5’19”
​31.Alba Teruel (ESP/-), at 5’30”
​35.Alicia González (ESP/-), at 5’47”
37.Irene Trabazo (ESP/-), at 5’55”
42. Sara Bonillo (ESP/-)
45. Estela Dominguez (ESP/-)
46. ​​Marta Beti (ESP/-)
47. Sara Cueto (ESP/-)
48. Andrea Velasco (ESP/-)
51.Laura Maria Mira (ESP/-)​
U23 boys
​1.Thibau Nys (Bel/Baloise Trek Lions) 47’43”
​2.Emiel Del Grosso (PB/-), id
​3.Emiel Verstrynge (PB/Crelan-Fristads), at 5″
…
​17. Gonzalo Inguanzo (ESP/-), at 1’56”
​18. Miguel Rodríguez (ESP/-), at 1’59”
​26.Marc Cabedo (ESP/-), at 3’12”
27. Julio Pérez (ESP/-), at 3’26”
​28. Miguel Díaz (ESP/-), at 3’35”
​30. Raúl Mira (ESP/Teika-Ale), at 4’17”
​32.Alan Suárez (ESP/Nesta-MMR CX Team), in 4’52”
​34.Javier Zaera (ESP/-) at 5’19”
​37.Daniel González (ESP/Unicaja Banco-Gijón), at 5’50”
​40.Ivan Gomar (ESP/Teika-Ale)
Junior boys
​1. Yordi Corsus (Bel), 42’44”
​2.Seppe Van Den Boer (Bel(, in 1″
​3.Viktor Vanderberghe (Bel), at 3″
….
​17. Hodei Muñoz (ESP), at 53″
18. Gorka Corres (ESP), at 55″
​26.David Ibars (ESP), in 2’09”
​27.Emilio Reinoso (ESP), at 2’19”
​29.arlos Gámez (ESP), 2’45 behind
31. Adrián Valle (ESP), at 3’03”
​35.Oskitx Eguiguren (ESP), at 3’46”
​36. Martí Bravo (ESP), at 4’16”
​39. Mario Vega (ESP), at 5’06”
​40. Jordi Fournes (ESP), at 6’05”
Junior girl
​1.Lauren Molengraaf (PB), 39’06”
​2. Isabela Holgren (Can), at 5″
​3.Ava Holmgren (Can), id.
…
​12.Laia Bosch (ESP), at 3’37”
​16. María Filgueiras (ESP) at 4’16”
​17.Natalia Alonso (ESP), in 4’32
​18.Claudia Pérez (ESP), at 4’33”
​20.Nahia Arana (ESP), at 5’03”
​21. Aroa Otero (ESP), at 5’50”
​22.Uxia Soto (ESP), At 6’16”
​24. Vlertia Mouro (ESP), at 6’39”
​25. Alba Valle (ESP)
​27. Ariadna Valle (ESP)