A 19-year-old Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) claimed his first skilled victory on the GP de Denain after sprinting to the road from a choose group of eight riders on the finish of the 197km race.
The Briton was battling on the entrance of the race with Lotto pairing Alec Segaert and Brent Van Moer, Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Florian Vermeersch (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Dries De Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), amongst a number of others, on the run to the end of his eighth professional race day.
Attacks and counters flew on the entrance, however the eight males would come to the road collectively to contest the dash end. Following one final try by Lotto’s non-sprinters to go clear, it was Tomáš Kopecky (Unibet Tietema Rockets) who launched his dash on the entrance first.
The Czech rider went too early, nevertheless, and he was swamped by Brennan, who earlier this month gained two races with Visma’s improvement group, and Gianni Vermeersch.
The pair hit the entrance collectively, however Brennan was all the time barely forward and had the quickest ending kick besides. The British rider kicked on and had time to have a good time earlier than the road, too.
Gianni Vermeersch got here by way of for second place forward of De Bondt, whereas Florian Vermeersch and Van Moer rounded out the highest 5.
Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike) within the eight-rider breakaway on one among remaining 13 sectors of cobbles (Image credit score: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
