US National Champ Jeff Bahnson in one of his final races before St. Wendel. © Bart Hazen
While much of the attention is lavished on some of the more established competitors, the riders contesting the U23 and Junior races should not be overlooked. The future Sven Nys’ and Katie Comptons were also battling it out on the course at the Hoogerheide World Cup this weekend. Laurens Sweeck took the Junior win after a three-up dash to the line, just besting French teammates Kevin Bouvard and Fabien Doubey.
On the American side, Danny Summerhill had a promising race in the lead up to the Word Championships in St. Wendel with a 22nd place finish. In the juniors race, Andrew Dillman was the highest placed American in 25th place. Many of the Americans are still working the kinks out from the travel across the Atlantic, many having arrived in Europe in the last few days. The Americans used the race in Hoogerheide as a last tun-up before the impending World Championships in St. Wendel, Germany.
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U23
Juniors
Full Results
U23
| Rank | Name | Nat. | Result |
| 1 | Matthieu BOULO | FRA | 51:48:00 |
| 2 | Joeri ADAMS | BEL | 51:49:00 |
| 3 | Lars VAN DER HAAR | NED | 51:51:00 |
| 4 | Jim AERNOUTS | BEL | 51:54:00 |
| 5 | Vinnie BRAET | BEL | 51:55:00 |
| 6 | Marek KONWA | POL | 51:58:00 |
| 7 | Wietse BOSMANS | BEL | 52:08:00 |
| 8 | Irwin GRAS | FRA | 52:28:00 |
| 9 | Twan VAN DEN BRAND | NED | 52:28:00 |
| 10 | Ole QUAST | GER | 52:30:00 |
| 11 | Arnaud GRAND | SUI | 52:33:00 |
| 12 | Emiel DOLFSMA | NED | 52:33:00 |
| 13 | Mike TEUNISSEN | NED | 52:34:00 |
| 14 | Gert-Jan BOSMAN | NED | 52:46:00 |
| 15 | David VAN DER POEL | NED | 52:55:00 |
| 16 | Elia SILVESTRI | ITA | 52:55:00 |
| 17 | Gianni VERMEERSCH | BEL | 52:55:00 |
| 18 | Jens ADAMS | BEL | 53:01:00 |
| 19 | Tijmen EISING | NED | 53:08:00 |
| 20 | Marcel MEISEN | GER | 53:10:00 |
| 21 | Kobus HEREIJGERS | NED | 53:10:00 |
| 22 | Daniel SUMMERHILL | USA | 53:15:00 |
| 23 | Jimmy TURGIS | FRA | 53:16:00 |
| 24 | Mirko TABACCHI | ITA | 53:26:00 |
| 25 | Karel HNIK | CZE | 53:32:00 |
| 26 | Valentin SCHERZ | SUI | 53:37:00 |
| 27 | Michael (JR) SCHWEIZER | GER | 54:03:00 |
| 28 | Vincent BAESTAENS | BEL | 54:09:00 |
| 29 | Jan NESVADBA | CZE | 54:15:00 |
| 30 | Matteo TRENTIN | ITA | 54:33:00 |
| 31 | Michael BOROS | CZE | 54:38:00 |
| 32 | Tomas PAPRSTKA | CZE | 54:42:00 |
| 33 | Kenneth HANSEN | DEN | 54:46:00 |
| 34 | Luca BRAIDOT | ITA | 54:51:00 |
| 35 | Lubomir PETRUS | CZE | 54:52:00 |
| 36 | Corne VAN KESSEL | NED | 55:13:00 |
| 37 | Lukas MÜLLER | SUI | 55:23:00 |
| 38 | Michael WINTERBERG | SUI | 55:31:00 |
| 39 | Fabian DANNER | GER | 55:32:00 |
| 40 | Alex KIRSCH | LUX | 55:34:00 |
| 41 | Geert VAN DER HORST | NED | 55:50:00 |
| 42 | Cody KAISER | USA | 56:04:00 |
| 43 | Nils VAN KOOIJ | NED | 56:05:00 |
| 44 | Zach MCDONALD | USA | 56:24:00 |
| 45 | Jerome TOWNSEND | USA | 57:19:00 |
| 46 | Max WALSLEBEN | GER | 57:39:00 |
| 47 | Vincent DIAS DOS SANTOS | LUX | 57:58:00 |
| 48 | Wojciech HERBA | POL | |
| 49 | Jonas Schau GUDDAL | DEN | |
| 50 | Piotr ANTKOWIAK | POL |
Juniors
| Rank | Name | Nat. | Result |
| 1 | Laurens SWEECK | BEL | 44:53:00 |
| 2 | Kévin BOUVARD | FRA | 44:53:00 |
| 3 | Fabien DOUBEY | FRA | 44:54:00 |
| 4 | Silvio HERKLOTZ | GER | 45:05:00 |
| 5 | Loic DOUBEY | FRA | 45:24:00 |
| 6 | Danny VAN POPPEL | NED | 45:30:00 |
| 7 | Lars FORSTER | SUI | 45:31:00 |
| 8 | Yannick ECKMANN | GER | 45:34:00 |
| 9 | Quentin JAUREGUI | FRA | 45:34:00 |
| 10 | Daniel PEETERS | BEL | 45:43:00 |
| 11 | Clément VENTURINI | FRA | 45:47:00 |
| 12 | Tomas MEDEK | CZE | 45:51:00 |
| 13 | Pablo RODRIGUEZ GUEDE | ESP | 46:08:00 |
| 14 | Yorben VAN TICHELT | BEL | 46:18:00 |
| 15 | Wout VAN AERT | BEL | 46:20:00 |
| 16 | Stan GODRIE | NED | 46:23:00 |
| 17 | Jakub SKALA | CZE | 46:29:00 |
| 18 | Douwe VERBERNE | NED | 46:36:00 |
| 19 | Jens VANDEKINDEREN | BEL | 46:47:00 |
| 20 | Fabian LIENHARD | SUI | 46:53:00 |
| 21 | Julian LEHMANN | GER | 46:54:00 |
| 22 | Jaap DE MAN | NED | 46:55:00 |
| 23 | Anthonin DIDIER | FRA | 47:11:00 |
| 24 | Dominic ZUMSTEIN | SUI | 47:26:00 |
| 25 | Andrew DILLMAN | USA | 47:33:00 |
| 26 | Tim ARIESEN | NED | 47:36:00 |
| 27 | Diether SWEECK | BEL | 47:41:00 |
| 28 | Federico ZURLO | ITA | 47:42:00 |
| 29 | Andri FRISCHKNECHT | SUI | 47:52:00 |
| 30 | Michael VANTHOURENHOUT | BEL | 47:53:00 |
| 31 | Riccardo REDAELLI | ITA | 48:04:00 |
| 32 | Jan DIETEREN | GER | 48:07:00 |
| 33 | Pjotr VAN BEEK | NED | 48:19:00 |
| 34 | Karl HOPPNER | CAN | 48:20:00 |
| 35 | Yannick GRUNER | GER | 48:20:00 |
| 36 | Tomas BOHATA | CZE | 48:26:00 |
| 37 | Dylan GROENEWEGEN | NED | 48:29:00 |
| 38 | Enrico SCAPOLAN | ITA | 48:36:00 |
| 39 | Emil Arvid OLSEN | DEN | 48:49:00 |
| 40 | Erik KRAMER | NED | 48:52:00 |
| 41 | Toki SAWADA | JPN | 48:53:00 |
| 42 | Twan BRUSSELMAN | NED | 49:19:00 |
| 43 | Lorenzo SAMPARISI | ITA | 49:23:00 |
| 44 | Jeff BAHNSON | USA | 49:30:00 |
| 45 | Yohan PATRY | CAN | 49:34:00 |
| 46 | Tomas SVOBODA | CZE | 49:52:00 |
| 47 | Patryk KOSTECKI | POL | 49:57:00 |
| 48 | Marcin MALEWICZ | POL | 50:05:00 |
| 49 | Wojciech MALEC | POL | 50:06:00 |
| 50 | Dennis EIKELENBOOM | NED | 50:36:00 |
| 51 | Benjamin PERRY | CAN | 50:42:00 |
| 52 | Tom SCHWARMES | LUX | 50:54:00 |
| 53 | Robbie VAN BAKEL | NED | 51:03:00 |
| 54 | Kamil WOLKIEWICZ | POL | 51:09:00 |
| 55 | Wojciech SZYNIEC | POL | 51:35:00 |
| 56 | Pawel SAMOL | POL | 51:47:00 |
| 57 | Sven FRITSCH | LUX | 52:11:00 |
| 58 | Ralph GLEIS | LUX | |
| 59 | Bjorn FOX | USA | |
| 60 | Jimmy REINERT | LUX |
