Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny) got here round Axel Zingle (Cofidis) within the closing metres and received Circuit de Wallonie on Thursday. Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) took third place in Marcinelle.
For De Lie, it was his fourth consecutive podium of the 12 months, coming off a win 4 days in the past at Tro-Bro Léon. It was a fifth second-placed end for Zingle, who recovered from a puncture with 30km to go and labored his method to the entrance of the race within the finale.
Once on the end circuits, Lotto Dstny carried out the plan to ship De Lie to the road. The last dash was opened by Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech) however Zingle was fast to then hit the entrance. De Lie made a clean cross on the proper facet of the flat end to take the win by half a motorcycle size.
A lot of assaults and breakaways came about throughout the 183.9km of racing. Samuele Privitera (Hagens Berman-Jayco) and Christian Lindquist (Airtox-Carl Ras), launched the primary assault simply 2km from the beginning in Charleroi. The breakaway doubled in measurement when Gianni Marchand (Tarteletto-Isorex) and Mirko Bozzola (Q36.5 Pro Cycling) caught the duo and so they charged up the highway with a one-minute margin 10km later, 170km nonetheless to trip.
Bozzola was the primary of the group to drop again with beneath 75km to go. The time hole light quick for the remaining trio as Lotto Dstny drilled the tempo on the entrance of the peloton.
Tosh Van Der Sande (Visma-Lease a Bike) launched a quick assault with just below 50km to go after which his teammate Loe Van Belle adopted with one other effort 5km later. The race was again along with 35km to go, as riders started the primary of three ending circuits.
Van Belle attacked a second time close to the top of the penultimate lap with 11km to go. Just a few kilometres later, Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) tagged on. Lotto Dstny then turned up their curiosity and swept the pair again into the fray for the bunch dash.
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