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David Van Der Poel wins the World Cup in Hoogerheide. © Bart Hazen

David Van Der Poel wins the World Cup in Hoogerheide. © Bart Hazen

by Dan Seaton

Hoogerheide, Netherlands – On a dark and drizzly day in this small Dutch town, just north of the Belgian border, Dutch Junior David van der Poel wrapped up his World Cup season on a high note. Van der Poel took a sprint victory over countryman Danny van Poppel and, with the victory, claimed the overall World Cup title as well. Van der Poel’s World Cup title came at the expense of previous leader Gert-Jan Bosman, who fell to second place overall after a sixth place finish.

Van der Poel started slow, but made progress on early leaders van Poppel and French racer Julian Alaphilippe, finally reaching van Poppel on the final lap of the race, just in time to take the sprint. Ten seconds behind, Alaphilippe, who fell to ninth place during the fourth lap after riding well early in the race, battled back to claim third over Jens Vandekinderen, just edging out the Belgian rider on the line.

Vanderkinderen’s fouth place race finish was enough to bump him up from fifth in the overall points standings, giving the final spot on the World Cup series podium to the Belgian rider.

Representing the USA, Cody Kaiser took 41st place, Jeff Bahnson 46th and Chris Wallace 48th. Yannick Eckmann, a German who calls Boulder, Colorado home and races for the Clif Bar Development Squad, finished in 19th.

Zach McDonald was the top American in Hoogerheide. © Bart Hazen

Zach McDonald was the top American in Hoogerheide. © Bart Hazen

In the Under-23’s, Belgian Tom Meeusen secured his World Cup title with a second place finish, ten seconds behind his Fidea teammate Kacper Szczepaniak of Poland.  Szczepaniak started deep in the field, but made steady progress towards the front, taking over the lead from Meeusen on the fifth of seven laps and riding away from Meeusen one lap later. Meeusen fought off both French racer Arnaud Jouffry and Belgian Kenneth van Compernolle, emerging from the three-man chase group on the final lap and out-kicking the two by a handful of seconds.

Jouffroy’s third place finish was enough to take the third spot in the overall standings, bumping Dutch racer Tijmen Eising, who finished sixth today, down to fourth.  Slovakian Robert Gavenda held on to second place overall, despite a 16th place finish today.

Americans Zach McDonald and Danny Summerhill came in for 29th and 30th, while Jerome Townsend was 36th and Luke Keough was 41st.

Full Results

Junior Men

1 David VAN DER POEL NED 18 42:48 30 30
2 Danny VAN POPPEL NED 17 42:48 20 20
3 Julian ALAPHILIPPE FRA 18 42:58 15 15
4 Jens VANDEKINDEREN BEL 17 42:58 12 12
5 Michael BOROS CZE 18 42:59 10 10
6 Gert-Jan BOSMAN NED 18 43:01 8 8
7 Emiel DOLFSMA NED 18 43:01 6 6
8 Mike TEUNISSEN NED 18 43:02 4 4
9 Michiel VAN DER HEIJDEN NED 18 43:03 2 2
10 Gianni VERMEERSCH BEL 18 43:05 1 1
11 Tim MERLIER BEL 18 43:08
12 Matej LASAK CZE 18 43:09
13 Radek POLNICKY CZE 18 43:11
14 Jens ADAMS BEL 18 43:11
15 Emilien VIENNET FRA 18 43:15
16 David MENUT FRA 18 43:23
17 Tomas PAPRSTKA CZE 18 43:45
18 Clément VENTURINI FRA 17 43:55
19 Yannick ECKMANN GER 17 43:59
20 Jannick GEISLER GER 18 44:03
21 Wenzel BÖHM-GRÄBER GER 18 44:04
22 Fabio Alfonso TODARO ITA 18 44:08
23 Laurens SWEECK BEL 17 44:15
24 Vojtech NIPL CZE 17 44:16
25 Rudy LORENZON ITA 18 44:18
26 Clément LEBRAS FRA 18 44:18
27 Joey VAN RHEE NED 18 44:37
28 Lukas MÜLLER SUI 18 44:41
29 Diether SWEECK BEL 17 44:43
30 Douwe VERBERNE NED 17 44:48
31 Fabian LIENHARD SUI 17 44:52
32 Nicolas SAMPARISI ITA 18 44:53
33 Stan GODERIE NED 17 44:54
34 Pietro SANTINI ITA 18 44:55
35 Bob JUNGELS LUX 18 44:56
36 Lars FORSTER SUI 17 45:19
37 Bartosz PILIS POL 18 45:26
38 Julian LEHMANN GER 17 45:30
39 Francesco ACQVAVIVA ITA 18 45:36
40 Robin WENNEKERS NED 18 45:44
41 Cody KAISER USA 18 45:47
42 Janusz LESSNAU POL 18 45:53
43 Tomas MEDEK CZE 17 45:59
44 Lex REICHLING LUX 18 46:12
45 Tom SCHWARMES LUX 17 47:02
46 Jeff BAHNSON USA 17 47:27
47 Scott THILTGES LUX 18 47:40
48 Chris WALLACE USA 18 47:50
49 Kiernan ORANGE CAN 18 48:00
50 Wilco VAN BEUSEKOM NED 18 48:30
51 Mackenzie CARSON CAN 18 49:15
52 Conor O’BRIEN CAN 18 49:41
53 Marcin MALEWICZ POL 17 51:23

U23 Men

Rank Name Nat. Age* Result PaR PcR
1 Kacper SZCZEPANIAK POL 20 48:36 100 100
2 Tom MEEUSEN BEL 22 48:45 60 60
3 Arnaud JOUFFROY FRA 20 48:47 40 40
4 Kenneth VAN COMPERNOLLE BEL 22 48:49 30 30
5 Marek KONWA POL 20 48:56 25 25
6 Tijmen EISING NED 19 49:12 20 20
7 Joeri ADAMS BEL 21 49:14 17 17
8 Jim AERNOUTS BEL 21 49:14 15 15
9 Micki VAN EMPEL NED 20 49:15 12 12
10 Pawel SZCZEPANIAK POL 21 49:21 10 10
11 Corne VAN KESSEL NED 19 49:24 8 8
12 Lars VAN DER HAAR NED 19 49:25 6 6
13 Lubomir PETRUS CZE 20 49:26 4 4
14 Jan DENUWELAER BEL 22 49:29 2 2
15 Cristian COMINELLI ITA 22 49:42 1 1
16 Robert GAVENDA SVK 22 49:49
17 Sascha WEBER GER 22 49:52
18 Jiri POLNICKY CZE 21 49:58
19 Matteo TRENTIN ITA 21 50:01
20 Twan VAN DEN BRAND NED 21 50:09
21 Matthieu BOULO FRA 21 50:17
22 Karel HNIK CZE 19 50:25
23 Matthias RUPP SUI 20 50:28
24 Valentin SCHERZ SUI 20 50:29
25 Ole QUAST GER 21 51:12
26 Marcel MEISEN GER 21 51:35
27 Mattias NILSSON SWE 21 51:45
28 Elia SILVESTRI ITA 20 51:51
29 Zach MC DONALD USA 19 51:59
30 Daniel SUMMERHILL USA 21 52:02
31 Jan NESVADBA CZE 19 52:06
32 Yu TAKENOUCHI JPN 22 52:09
33 Kobus HEREIJGERS NED 21 52:14
34 Irwin GRAS FRA 19 52:26
35 Jan BÜCHMANN GER 20 52:27
36 Jerome TOWNSEND USA 21 52:28
37 Lukas WINTERBERG SUI 22 52:32
38 Edwin ARTS NED 22 52:38
39 Maurits LAMMERTINK NED 20 52:42
40 Kevin SMIT NED 20 52:57
41 Luke KEOUGH USA 19 52:58
42 Michael (JR) SCHWEIZER GER 19 53:13
43 Naran KHANGARID MGL 21 53:24
44 David MENGER CZE 22 53:37
45 Vincent BAESTAENS BEL 21 53:48
46 Fabian DANNER GER 20 54:01
47 Baasankhuu MYAGMARSUREN MGL 19 54:16
48 Hikaru KOSAKA JPN 22 55:01
49 Kamil GRADEK POL 20 55:10
50 Geert VAN DER HORST NED 20 55:19
51 Dario STAUBLE SUI 19 55:19
52 Melvin RULLIERE FRA 21 55:36

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