Mathieu Van der Poel leaves no respite at the Cyclocross World Cup: Launched in search of his eighth world crown, the Dutchman added his fourth victory this year this Friday by winning at Gavere, the seventh round of the calendar, to maintain the total number of victories since his debut in the championship and rank second in the standings, just one point behind leader Laurens Sweeck.
The seven-time world champion of the modality He crossed the finish line alone, with a time of 1:03:15.with another demonstration of superiority which reaffirms its hegemony in the specialty. Only the Belgian Thibau Nys, winner of two World Cup events this season, tried to overshadow him, and even launched several attacks to try to leave him there, which gave enthusiasm to the race.
But on the seventh lap, the cyclist Alpecin-Deceuninck He took advantage of a small error from his opponent with the pedalhe untied it to leave it behind and walked alone the last two sections of the route until seals his sixth victory at Gavere. Nys is second, 21 seconds behind Van der Poel, and the Dutchman Tibor del Grosso completes the podium, 23 seconds behind.
With his new triumph, Van der Poel has 160 points and is only one point behind the leaderthe Belgian Laurens Sweeck, eleventh in Gavere, while the third is his compatriot Michael Vanthourenhout, with 148, and the fourth, Nys, with 143.
THE eighth round of the World Cupof the 12 on the calendar, will take place again in Belgium next Sunday in the city of Dendermonde.
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