Marie Schreiber (Team SD Worx-Protime) glided by means of the slippery mud at Parkcross a mid-week C2 contest in Maldegem and received the penultimate spherical of the Exact Cross collection.
Crelan-Corendon teammates Inge van der Heijden and Sara Casasola rounded out the rostrum, the Dutch rider 16 seconds again and the Italian one other 5 seconds later.
The drama of the race unfolded effectively behind the rostrum finishers when Belgian Jinse Peeters (De Ceuster-Bouwpunt) and Dutchwoman Manon Bakker (Crelan-Corendon) have been disqualified after bumping in a nook and hitting one another.
On the sixth of the seven laps, Peeters held the within place as three riders approached a 90-degree left-hand nook. Bakker moved beside Peeters to make a go, and the Belgian used her proper arm to push Bakker away from shut proximity.
The shove brought about the Dutch rider to unclip to maintain from crashing, with Bakker then slapping Peeters on the shoulder whereas she tried to regain management, however misplaced place within the small group.
Peeters thought Bakker had made a harmful transfer to impede her course of. Race officers reviewed the footage on the finish of the race and deemed each riders can be penalised, leading to DQs.
Meanwhile, the 21-year-old Schreiber celebrated her sixth elite cyclocross victory for the season, together with a 3rd Luxembourg nationwide championship in January. In Liévin on the World Championships final weekend she landed on the rostrum for the primary time, incomes the silver medal within the U23 division.
“I felt the strongest, it’s good to complete the season with a victory,” mentioned Schreiber, who will now transition to the highway for SD Worx-Protime.
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