29 Apr

UCI Gravel World Sequence – Toon Aerts and Tessa Neefjes take victory at Gravel Fondo Limburg

Toon Aerts claimed a good sprint with Piotr Havik throughout the elite males’s race on the Gravel Fondo Limburg, whereas Tessa Neefjes gained the elite women’s title on the UCI Gravel World Sequence.

Neefjes, who has gained quite a few rounds of the sequence the earlier two seasons, carved out a distinct segment of merely over two minutes on Irina Lützelschwab whereas Wendy Oosterwoud came over the highway virtually a minute-and-a-half later to take third throughout the 123km race with spherical 1,300m of elevation purchase. Femke de Vries, who merely two weeks sooner than had been racing the roads of Limburg throughout the Amstel Gold Race, received right here fourth whereas it was fifth for Marjet Groen.

The race, which begins and finishes in Valkenburg and takes throughout the Cauberg and Keutenberg, received right here all the way in which all the way down to the wire throughout the males’s elite class with Aerts not solely worthwhile an in depth sprint with Havik, nonetheless the prime ten finishers throughout the packed self-discipline had been all properly inside 4 minutes of the cyclocross powerhouse who first returned to racing in February to take fourth in Exact Cross in Sint Niklaas after the expiration of his two-year doping suspension. Adne Koster received right here third, 21 seconds once more from Aerts.

Jasper Ockeloen and Johnny Hoogerland received right here in collectively to take fourth and fifth, then there was a gaggle of 5 led over the highway – throughout the metropolis that moreover provides the tip line for the Amstel Gold Race – by newly retired freeway expert Greg Van Avermaet.

“It wasn’t my first race spherical Valkenburg but it surely absolutely was the first one with a gravel bike,” acknowledged Van Avermaet in an Instagram publish. “Managed to protected a robust sixth place whatever the troublesome wind. I suppose this race put some additional stress on the legs for the next ones.”

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