Elite Women’s Results: 2020 World Cup Hoogerheide

For a hot second at Sunday’s World Cup Hoogerheide, it looked like Ceylin Alvarado (Alpecin – Fenix) had shown her racing maturity and power once again. Then one rut took away her shot at winning the race and perhaps more importantly, the 2019/20 Telenet UCI World Cup series overall title.

On an uncharacteristically dry and fast day in the Netherlands, Alvarado joined Lucinda Brand (Telenet Baloise Lions), Annemarie Worst (777), Sanne Cant (IKO – Crelan), Yara Kastelijn (777) and Evie Richards (Trek Factory Racing CX) in a group heading into the bell lap.

In the race’s closing meters, Brand pushed the pace at the front, but at the top of the stairway to nowhere, Alvarado hopped back on her bike and sprinted to the front toward the race’s final feature, the steep, rutted off-camber that drops onto the finishing straight.

Alvarado entered the race with a 5-point lead on Worst in the World Cup overall, so all she had to do was clear the feature and she was likely to capture the series overall and its healthy payday.

At the entrance to the rut, disaster struck for the young Dutch standout. She lost her front wheel and her bike went tumbling to the bottom of the steep section.

Brand took over the lead and had clear sailing once onto the paved finishing straight to take the win. Worst finished second and Cant wrapped up third. Worst also took the World Cup overall with her silver medal.

Alvarado fell all the way back to sixth.

Maghalie Rochette (Specialized x Feedback Sports) had a strong ride, finishing eighth.

Full results are below. Stay tuned for a full race report.

Elite Women Results: 2020 World Cup Hoogerheide