The Belgian Wout Van Aert (Team Visma) The classic sprint was awarded this Sunday Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurneby surpassing his compatriot in the finish Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates) and in Basque Oier Lazkano (Movistar)with him on a long vacation.
🇪🇸 Lazkano kept us dreaming until the end of Van Aert’s victory in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
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Van Aert’s test debut allowed the Visma team to achieve another victory after the Slovenian Jan Tratnik on Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and confirmed Movistar’s expectations of Lazkano, champion of Spain on the road and winner days ago of the last classic from Jaén.
The 24-year-old from Vitoria, came into a good break started by Van Aert on Mont Saint-Laurent, 69 kilometers away and before the penultimate of 13 climbs, along with Wellens and New Zealander Laurence Pithie (Groupama-FDJ) , and held the pace of the favorite when he tried to leave the “Côte de Trieu” and Pithie fell.
The three reached the last summit together, the Kruisberg, then they tackled the last 61 kilometers of the 196 kilometer route and achieved an advantage of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over a chasing group, where the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain ) distance. -Victorious) and the American Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma) who caught up with Pithie.
Convinced that victory would be sealed in the sprint, Wellens launched an attack 5 kilometers from the finish line that his teammates did not allow to progress and Lazkano did the same in the final thousand meters, only to be canceled out by Van Aert and launched the definitive. one before the finish line to win after 4h21:01.
French Christophe (Team Visma) took the sprint of the peloton, coming in 1:23 behind the leading trio.
Source: La Verdad
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