On a grey and windy Sunday afternoon in Hoogerheide (Netherlands), world champion Sanne Cant (IKO-Beobank) won the final of nine Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup rounds. With her fifth win of the season in the World Cup, the Belgian champion put the icing on the cake of her third overall World Cup victory, despite struggling with illness this week.
Italian champion Eva Lechner (Clif Pro Team) held off British U23 champion Evie Richards (Trek Factory Racing) in the battle for second place.
One week ahead of the Valkenburg 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, a hard crash took out two major contenders: French champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and mountain bike world champion Jolanda Neff (Kross Racing Team).
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Cant spoke to the press about her victory in a post-race TV interview and said, "Hopefully I'll feel better next week than today. Hopefully I will not have relapse and enjoy a good week of training. The morale is good for Saturday's race."
Lechner managed the hole shot in Hoogerheide with Cant, Ellen Van Loy (Telenet Fidea Lions) and Maud Kaptheijns (Crelan-Charles) following shortly. Behind the top-five there was chaos at the fly-over shortly after the start line when Ellen Noble had to hop off her bike; the rest of the pack was forced off the bike too.
Ferrand-Prévot, US champion Katie Compton (KFC Racing p/b Trek) and Katerina Nash (Clif Pro Team) had a troubled start. At the back-end of the opening lap, Van Loy crashed on a slippery off-camber descent and that left Lechner and Cant alone in front. After the opening lap Cant and Lechner were eight seconds ahead of Neff, Kaptheijns and Nikki Brammeier (Mudiiita).
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