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Superprestige #7 - Harnes - C1
Harnes, France, February 9, 2003
2002 Results Results Past winners
Dominant Nijs wraps up Superprestige series
With just one round of the Superprestige series remaining and with a 60 point lead, Belgian champion Sven Nijs will walk away with his fourth Superprestige title in two weeks time in Vorselaar. And if he wins that round too, he will equal the record of Superprestige king Roland Liboton, who won 21 Superprestige races in his career. After winning five of the seven rounds this season, Nijs currently has 20 SP wins in total, and is motivated to make the most of the end of the season following his disappointing fifth place at the World's in Monopoli.
"That's an improbably large amount of wins in a season," said Nijs. "I fear that it will be difficult to equal Liboton in Vorselaar."
The World's are still fresh in his mind though, and Nijs doesn't know what happened in Monopoli. "One thing is for sure: it is a bitter pill to swallow," said Nijs. "To be such a favourite and to have such a disappointing performance, that was a kick in the ribs."
Today in Harnes there were no problems for Nijs, as halfway through the race he rode away from the leading group containing Mario De Clercq (Palmans-Collstrop), Bart Wellens (Spaar Select), Peter Van Santvliet (Spaar Select), Tom Vannoppen (Palmans-Collstrop) and Erwin Vervecken (Spaar Select). Only Van Santvliet was able to come back at Nijs, obviously hungry for a good result to try and secure a contract for next season. Van Santvliet finished 23 seconds behind Nijs, with his teammate and newly crowned World Champ Bart Wellens rounding out the top three.
Nijs now has 193 points ahead of Wellens on 133, De Clercq on 120 followed by Vervecken (113) and Van Santvliet (112). The battle is now for second place, or most likely third unless Wellens has a bad day in the final round.
Results
Elite 1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 56.32 2 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 0.23 3 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 0.32 4 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 0.33 5 Ben Berden (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 6 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 7 John Gadret (Fra) VC Roubaix 0.57 8 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.04 9 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 1.06 10 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 1.20 11 Dariusz Gil (Pol) 1.32 12 David Seco (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.41 13 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 1.49 14 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 1.56 15 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 2.06 16 Maxime Lefebvre (Fra) CV Liévin 2.19 17 Maarten Nijland (Ned) Heijdens-Ten Tusscher 2.30 18 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Cycle Poitevin 2.40 19 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 2.54 20 Dominique Arnould (Fra) 3.33 21 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 3.41 22 Wilant Van Gils (Ned) 4.02 23 Wim Jacobs (Bel) 4.34 24 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Saeco-Cannondale 4.43 25 Françis Mourey (Fra) 5.00 26 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) WG Beveren 2000 5.13 27 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze) Cyklo Team Budvar Tábor 6.09 28 Jiri Popisil (Cze) Author Praha 6.14 29 Joachim Parbo (Den) 1 lap 30 Pawel Cierpikowski (Pol) 39 starters U23 1 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 38.19 2 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 0.10 3 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 0.16 4 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 0.26 5 Martin Bina (Cze) 0.47 6 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 7 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 8 Mickael Müller (Swi) 9 Radomir Simunek (Cze) 10 Simon Zahner (Swi) 11 Josef Soukup (Cze) 12 Jan Soetens (Bel) 13 Stijn Penne (Bel) 14 Anders Klinkby (Den) 15 Jefferson Soissons (Fra) 16 Gaetan Benoit (Fra) (Bel) 17 Jorn Van der Veken (Bel) 18 Jan Geerts (Bel) 19 Gregory Himeur (Fra) 20 Sven Mombaerts (Bel) 21 Sebastien Durieu (Bel) Juniors 1 Lars Boom (Ned) 38.35 2 Eddy van Ijzendoorn (Ned (Bel) 0.43 3 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) 2.01 4 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) 5 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 6 Tom Van den Bosch (Bel) 7 Jempy Drucker (Lux) 8 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) 9 Finn Heitmann (Ger) 10 Maxim Debusschere (Bel) 11 Slawomir Pituch (Pol) 12 Daniel Janiszewski (Pol) 13 Ambroise Touboulic (Fra) 14 Alexandre Baillet (Fra) (Bel) 15 Dylan Esman (Fra) (Bel) 16 Gerald Uytersprot (Bel) 17 Jonathan Parsy (Fra) 18 Alain van der Velde (Ned) 19 Ward Demets (Bel) 20 Adam Bycka (Fra)
Superprestige standings after round 7
Elite 1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 193 pts 2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 133 3 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 120 4 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 113 5 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 112 6 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 110 7 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 109 8 Ben Berden (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 101 9 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 89 10 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 84 11 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 72 12 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 60 13 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 43 14 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) WG Beveren 2000 33 15 Wim Jacobs (Bel) 33 16 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 28 17 Maarten Nijland (Ned) Heijdens-Ten Tusscher 25 17 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 25 19 Dariusz Gil (Pol) 20 20 Camiel Van Den Bergh (Ned) 15 21 Wilant Van Gils (Ned) 14 21 John Gadret (Fra) VC Roubaix 14 23 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 13 24 David Seco (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 25 Maxime Lefebvre (Fra) CV Liévin 8 26 Matthew Ellis (GBr) 7 26 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) 7 26 Roger Hammond (GBr) Palmans-Collstrop 7 29 Robert Glajza (Svk) 4 30 Pedro Baelen (Bel) 3 30 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Cycle Poitevin 3 32 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 2 33 Eddy Van Bouwel (Bel) 1 33 Nico Hendrickx (Bel) 1 33 Pawel Cierpikowski (Pol) 1 33 Dominique Arnould (Fra) 1 U23 1 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 167 pts 2 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 142 3 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 131 4 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 128 5 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) 125 6 Martin Bina (Cze) 106 7 Tim Pauwels (Bel) 78 8 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 74 9 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 65 10 Radomir Simunek (Cze) 52 11 Geert Wellens (Bel) 50 12 Martin Zlamanik (Cze) 46 13 Stijn Penne (Bel) 44 14 David Kasek (Cze) 37 15 Jan Soetens (Bel) 36 16 Jorn Vanderveken (Bel) 34 17 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) 25 18 Nicky David (Bel) 21 19 Gerben de Vries (Ned) 20 20 Tommy Nielsen (Den) 19 21 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Pol) 17 22 Mike Thielemans (Bel) 16 22 Simon Zahner (Swi) 16 24 Theo Eltink (Ned) 14 25 Shaun Snodden (GBr) 13 25 Pieter Weening (Ned) 13 25 Mickael Müller (Swi) 13 28 Nick Sels (Bel) 11 28 Jefferson Soisson (Fra) 11 30 Koen de Kort (Ned) 10 30 Josef Soukup (Cze) 10 32 Adrien Delautre (Fra) 9 32 Bart Dirckx (Ned) 9 34 Jacob Soukup (Cze) 8 34 Kenny van Hummel (Ned) 8 36 Jan Geerts (Bel) 7 36 Klinkby Anders (Den) 7 38 Benoit Gaetan (Fra) 5 39 Guus Magielse (Ned) 3 40 Ries van der Sanden (Ned) 2 41 Eric Verrijt (Ned) 1 41 Jérôme Boussekey (Fra) 1 41 Lukas Mudyn (Pol) 1 41 Steven Roach (Bel) 1 41 Gregory Himeur (Fra) 1 Juniors 1 Lars Boom (Ned) 180 pts 2 Eddy van Ijzendoorn (Ned) 143 3 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) 137 4 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) 109 5 Kevin Van Lierde (Bel) 89 6 Slawomir Pituch (Pol) 80 7 Maxim Debusschere (Bel) 76 8 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 72 9 Tom Van den Bosch (Bel) 69 10 Finn Heitmann (Ger) 60 11 Gerald Uytersprot (Bel) 45 12 Bart Verschueren (Bel) 41 13 Jempi Drucker (Lux) 34 14 Thijs van Amerongen (Ned) 32 15 Bram Wind (Ned) 30 16 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) 29 17 Daan Dejonghe (Bel) 28 18 Bart Veyt (Bel) 24 19 Rob Peeters (Bel) 19 20 Rikkie Dijkxhoorn (Ned) 18 20 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) 18 20 Joris Wijnen (Bel) 18 23 Jeroen Thielemans (Bel) 17 24 Toon Devenijns (Bel) 16 24 Jeroen Dingemans (Bel) 16 26 Roman Kreuzer (Cze) 14 26 Alois Lievens (Bel) 14 26 Quincy Vens (Bel) 14 26 Kay Van den Brande (Bel) 14 30 Ladislav Sulc (Cze) 11 30 Michal Werstak (Pol) 11 32 Albert Niels (Bel) 10 33 Koen Boelens (Bel) 9 33 Peter Van Dijk (Ned) 9 33 Daniël Janiszewski (Fra) 9 36 Paul Timmer (Ned) 8 36 Ward Demets (Bel) 8 36 Ambroise Touboulic (Fra) 8 39 Alexandre Baillet (Fra) 7 40 Niels Bogaars (Ned) 6 40 Dylan Esman (Fra) 6 42 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) 5 43 Nils Ferlin (Bel) 4 43 Joeri Kouwenhoven (Ned) 4 43 Nard van der Sanden (Ned) 4 43 Maarten de Jonghe (Ned) 4 43 Jonathan Parsy (Fra) 4 48 S Kleinligtebed (Ned) 3 48 Wesley Roos (Bel) 3 48 Harm Vandekerckhove (Bel) 3 48 Enrico Liebe (Ned) 3 48 Thijs Senders (Ned) 3 48 Alain van der Velde (Bel) 3 54 Rik Jonkheijm (Bel) 2 54 Pieter Van Loo (Bel) 2 56 Kenny Geluykens (Bel) 1 56 Steven Van Vooren (Bel) 1 56 Peter Heremans (Bel) 1 56 Adam Bycka (Pol) 1
Past Winners
2002 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 2001 Bart Wellens (Bel) 2000 Richard Groenendaal (Ned)
