the Belgian milan menten (Lotto Dstny) won the sprint on Tuesday in the 55th edition of the GP Le Samyna Belgian one-day event held between Quaregnon and Dour, with a distance of 209 km and offering great emotions in the last section of the race.
Coming to “choose” up, and after a sprint played from afar and with many alternatives, Menten (Bilzen, 26 years old) gave victory to his team, this year in the second division, the second to score in his palmares
lie He was a rocket upon arriving at the Dour, where he crossed the line euphorically with a time of 4:49:18, at an average of 43.3 km/h, ahead of Frenchman Hugo Hofstetter (Arkea) and Belgian Edward Theuns ( track). .
A test of the third division of Belgian classics that gave itself a lot to the truffled route of small heights and some cobbled sections. A breakaway of 7 riders fueled the party, where important names like Jesper Stuyvens, Campenaerts or De Bondt traveled, in a breakaway that fought until close to the finish line.
The peloton reacted to promote the sprint, but the advance team sold their defeat dearly, as they knew how to gain from a few seconds until 4 km from the finish line, when the main group split the adventure.
A breakaway finish, but the onslaught was relentless as the final stretch of cobblestones approached with 3km to go. De Bondt tried to take off earlier, but Stuyvens was immediately neutralized. In the rocks formed another cut with 8 runners, 3 of them from Trek, where the American squad achieved an interesting majority.
500 meters from the finish line, a reduced sprint was called for, but not before there was a fall involving the 2 favourites, Asgreen and De Bondt. The path to glory has been laid out. Hofstetter threw in his cards from distance, looking like he was the pick of the day, but Menten’s last-ditch effort turned the tide in the Belgian’s favour. Menten succeeded Italian Matteo Trentin, winner in 2022, on the list of winners.
Source: La Verdad
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