Cyclocross Superprestige #2 - Hoogstraten,
Elite Men
World Champion Niels Albert has won the second race of the Superprestige in
Hoogstraten, his eight win of the season. The prince of Belgian cyclocross was
the best, in a race threatened by heavy showers, over Czech Champion Zdenek
Stybar and Belgian Champion and still the king of Belgian Cyclocross Sven Nys.
Kevin Pauwels and Klaas Vantornout finished in fourth and fifth place. Due to
his win Albert takes over the overall lead by one single point from Sven Nys.
Zdenek Stybar is third at two points.
World Champion Niels Albert
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
Czech Martin Zlamalik took the hole shot and turned into the field as first.
Albert missed his start and had to fight back from position fifteen. In the
second lap when Albert bridged up to the break he went down and had to chase
once again.
In front Albert's team mate Radomir Simunek took the lead from Zlamalik. Due
to the rain the course turned into a slide. Both Klaas Vantornout and Sven Nys
crashed and had to fight back from around position twenty. In the meantime Albert
joined the break again, didn't waited for Nys to come back, and immediately
attacked followed by Zdenek Stybar.
Sven Nys
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
Albert didn't temporize and dropped Stybar on the muddy but hilly course. Stybar
didn't gave up and was trailing about 10 seconds from the superman of BKCP-Powerplus.
In the back Sven Nys was impressive and moved up to a group with Klaas Vantornout,
Kevin Pauwels, Radomir Simunek, Gerben de Knegt and Erwin Vervecken who battled
for the third podium spot. The gap with Albert was already 40 seconds.
Nys was clearly the best of them and dropped his companions. Going into the
penultimate lap Stybar was still within ten seconds of Albert but the latter
one didn't make any mistakes and took his eight win of the season.
Result
1 Niels ALBERT BEL 24 1:03:36 60
2 Zdenek STYBAR CZE 25 1:03:52 40
3 Sven NYS BEL 34 1:04:48 30
Zdenek Stybar
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
4 Kevin PAUWELS BEL 26 1:05:04 25
5 Klaas VANTORNOUT BEL 28 1:05:24 20
6 Gerben DE KNEGT NED 35 1:05:34 18
7 Radomir SIMUNEK CZE 27 1:05:58 16
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Niels Albert - Sven Nys
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
8 Erwin VERVECKEN BEL 38 1:06:08 14
9 Bart AERNOUTS BEL 28 1:06:09 12
10 Dieter VANTHOURENHOUT BEL 25 1:06:09 10
11 Rob PEETERS BEL 25 1:06:22 8
Niels Albert won the second race of the Superprestige in Hoogstraten
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
12 Jan VERSTRAETEN BEL 32 1:06:42 6
13 Wilant VAN GILS NED 31 1:06:49 4
14 Thijs VAN AMERONGEN NED 24 1:06:49 2
15 Martin ZLAMALIK CZE 28 1:06:59 1
The podium (from left to right): Stybar - Albert - Nys
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
16 Philipp WALSLEBEN GER 23 1:07:42
17 Ben BERDEN BEL 35 1:08:10
18 Ian FIELD GBR 24 1:08:27
19 Tom VAN DEN BOSCH BEL 25 1:08:27
20 Quentin BERTHOLET BEL 23 1:08:37
Albert rode in the lead for most of the race
Photo © 2009 Bart Hazen
21 Jody CRAWFORTH GBR 30 1:08:44
22 Marco BIANCO ITA 28 1:08:53
23 Tim VAN NUFFEL BEL 29 1:09:25
24 Gusty BAUSCH LUX 30
25 Marek CICHOSZ POL 31
26 Zoltan TISZA HUN 43
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