In a race that saw the podium places finish within three seconds of each other, it was France’s Thomas Bennet with the win in the Junior Men’s race at the World Cup in Zolder over Jape Jaspers from Belgium who was two seconds adrift, and Tanguy Turgis, Bennet’s countryman, a further second back.
The Junior Men’s winner, Thomas Bonnet of France. © Bart Hazen
Gage Hecht (the author of our latest USA Cycling Development Camp diary) was the highest place American in fifth place ahead of Spencer Petrov in eleventh, with the two young riders nearly trading places from last week’s World Cup race at Namur. Americans Eric Brunner was 26th, Cameron Beard was 35th, Denzel Stephenson was 38th, and Evan Clouse was 49th.
North America also had Gunnar Holmgren in 61st and Brody Sanderson in 63rd, both from Canada.
Great Britain put three riders in the race with Thomas Piddock in 18th, Daniel Tulett in 25th and Ben Turner in 32nd while Noah Barrow was 58th and Ben Walkerden was 62nd, both from Australia.
Gage Hecht was the top American rider in fifth today in the Men’s Junior race at the World Cup Zolder. © Bart Hazen
2015 Zolder World Cup - Junior Men Full Results
| Pl | Name | Nationality | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas BONNET | FRA | 17 |
| 2 | Jappe JASPERS | BEL | 17 |
| 3 | Tanguy TURGIS | FRA | 17 |
| 4 | Mickaël CRISPIN | FRA | 17 |
| 5 | Gage HECHT | USA | 17 |
| 6 | Seppe ROMBOUTS | BEL | 17 |
| 7 | Florian VERMEERSCH | BEL | 16 |
| 8 | Toon VANDEBOSCH | BEL | 16 |
| 9 | Thymen ARENSMAN | NED | 16 |
| 10 | Kevin KUHN | SUI | 17 |
| 11 | Spencer PETROV | USA | 17 |
| 12 | Quentin NAVARRO | FRA | 17 |
| 13 | Mitch GROOT | NED | 17 |
| 14 | Thijs WOLSINK | NED | 17 |
| 15 | Reno BAUTERS | BEL | 17 |
| 16 | Jarne DRIESEN | BEL | 17 |
| 17 | Jokin ALBERDI | ESP | 17 |
| 18 | Thomas PIDCOCK | GBR | 16 |
| 19 | Marino NOORDAM | NED | 17 |
| 20 | Niklas MARKL | GER | 16 |
| 21 | Antonio FOLCARELLI | ITA | 17 |
| 22 | Andreas Lund ANDRESEN | DEN | 17 |
| 23 | Jarno LIESSENS | BEL | 17 |
| 24 | Vaclav SIRUCEK | CZE | 17 |
| 25 | Daniel TULETT | GBR | 16 |
| 26 | Eric BRUNNER | USA | 17 |
| 27 | Timo KIELICH | BEL | 16 |
| 28 | Matthieu LEGRAND | FRA | 17 |
| 29 | Alex COLMAN | BEL | 17 |
| 30 | Jakob DORIGONI | ITA | 17 |
| 31 | Jofre CULLELL ESTAPE | ESP | 16 |
| 32 | Ben TURNER | GBR | 16 |
| 33 | Tijl PAUWELS | BEL | 17 |
| 34 | Maximilian MOBIS | GER | 17 |
| 35 | Cameron BEARD | USA | 17 |
| 36 | Paul RUDOLPH | GER | 17 |
| 37 | David HONZAK | CZE | 16 |
| 38 | Denzel STEPHENSON | USA | 16 |
| 39 | Jari DE CLERCQ | BEL | 17 |
| 40 | Michel RIES | LUX | 17 |
| 41 | Jan GAVENDA | CZE | 16 |
| 42 | Jan NOVAK | CZE | 17 |
| 43 | Yannick VRIELINK | NED | 17 |
| 44 | Felix KEISER | LUX | 17 |
| 45 | Arne VRACHTEN | BEL | 16 |
| 46 | Edoardo XILLO | ITA | 16 |
| 47 | Misch LEYDER | LUX | 16 |
| 48 | Tarik HAUPT | GER | 17 |
| 49 | Evan CLOUSE | USA | 16 |
| 50 | Ken CONTER | LUX | 16 |
| 51 | Hynek PALICKA | CZE | 16 |
| 52 | Noah FRIES | LUX | 17 |
| 53 | David JARY | CZE | 17 |
| 54 | Juri HOLLMANN | GER | 16 |
| 55 | Ted PETTERSSON | SWE | 17 |
| 56 | Jack KOK | SWE | 17 |
| 57 | Felix SCHREIBER | LUX | 16 |
| 58 | Noah BARROW | AUS | 17 |
| 59 | Carl SORENSEN | DEN | 17 |
| 60 | Håkon AALRUST | NOR | 17 |
| 61 | Gunnar HOLMGREN | CAN | 16 |
| 62 | Ben WALKERDEN | AUS | 17 |
| 63 | Brody SANDERSON | CAN | 16 |
