Katerina Nash (Clif) captured an impressive victory at the sixth round of the Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in Namur, Belgium on Sunday afternoon. Nash finished solo on the Namur citadel ahead of Clif teammate Eva Lechner and World Cup leader Sophie de Boer (Kalas-NNOF). De Boer remains atop the World Cup standings.
Nash last won in Namur two years ago. It's the fifth-ever World Cup win for the Czech-American 39 year-old rider.
"Today was pretty epic," Nash said in the flash interview. "Sophie and Eva were really strong. It was a good, exciting race. [...] This place is special. I raced for a really long time and I don't have a ton of World Cup victories so everyone of them is super special. I'm really excited.
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"I was looking forward to come back to Namur. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to come back and race in Europe."
Straight from the start Nash showed her ambitions in foggy Namur as she featured in the lead group of five riders that survived the cut after the opening lap. Nash was accompanied by De Boer, Lechner, Ellen Van Loy (Young Telenet-Fidea) and a well-started Evie Richards. By then, World champion Thalita de Jong (Rabo-Liv) was on the ropes. After a good start she struggled on one of the key sections of the undulating course, the off-camber descent, losing a massive amount of time.
In front, Lechner accelerated. Nash swiftly followed but Richards, Van Loy and De Boer got dropped. De Boer was at the back of the group after a bike switch and was looking for space to move up.
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