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Mathieu Van der Poel secured an elite males’s record-equalling seventh UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship title following a commanding journey in Liévin.
Arch rival Wout van Aert suffered a first-lap crash whereas making an attempt to succeed in the entrance and was left in second, whereas fellow Belgian Thibau Nys rounded out the rostrum in third.
Van der Poel has now matched Eric De Vlaeminck historic variety of seven elite males’s world titles and may have the prospect to interrupt the report subsequent 12 months at Hulst on house Netherlands turf.
Dutch rider Marianne Vos has received eight elite girls’s cyclocross world titles in her profession.
Van der Poel’s rival Van Aert had the expectation of Belgium on his shoulders, however a fourth-row begin was his undoing.
Van Aert was boxed in from the beginning after which misplaced 46 seconds in a crash, which left him down in thirty seventh.
The massive Belgium squad waited for his or her chief, however the harm was executed as Van der Poel powered away on the opening lap to victory in entrance of an estimated 35,000 spectators.
Van Aert rode many of the race chasing alone in second however failed to drag the hole again on his rival.
Meanwhile, Nys noticed off a problem from Joris Nieuwenhuis (Netherlands) to assert his first elite world championship medal.
But the day belonged to Van der Poel who had time to have a good time together with his Dutch followers on his strategy to victory and saluted by making the quantity seven together with his fingers.
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