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Superprestige # 2 St. Michielsgestel - C1
St. Michielsgestel, Netherlands, November 3, 2002
2001 Results Results Past winners
Two from two for Nijs
Sven Nijs (Rabobank) has continued his excellent start to the Superprestige series by winning the second round held in Sint-Michielsgestel in the Netherlands today. Nijs finished 15 seconds clear of his teammate Richard Groenendaal, with Bart Wellens (Spaar Select) having to settle for third, as he did in Friday's Koppenberg 'cross. Nijs now leads the Superprestige series with 60 points, compared to Groenendaal's 50 and Erwin Vervecken's 40.
Groenendaal was the hometown favourite and led the race out hard from the start. However after four laps Nijs had caught up to him, and moved into the lead. The situation remained steady for the next few laps until Groenendaal caught Nijs again. But a hometown win was not on the cards for Groenendaal as Nijs attacked strongly to win the race.
"I nearly lost the race here due to the new UCI rules," commented Nijs afterwards. Despite being the Superprestige leader, Nijs had started in the second row according to the country-based start order rules.
"It is such a difficult parcours that if someone has 15" lead, the rest will find it hard to win. I was constantly biting my teeth in the hope that they would let me go through."
Results
Elite Men 1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 1.01.52 2 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 0.15 3 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 1.03 4 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 1.25 5 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 6 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 7 Ben Berden (Bel) Spaar Select 8 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 2.08 9 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 2.20 10 Wim Jacobs (Bel) 2.40 11 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 2.53 12 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 3.00 13 Maarten Nijland (Ned) 14 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) WG Beveren 2000 3.27 15 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 3.38 16 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 3.45 17 Wilant van Gils (Ned) 18 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 4.30 19 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 20 Camiel van den Bergh (Ned) 4.45 21 Wilfried Veldkamp (Ned) 5.45 22 Pawel Cierpikowski (Pol) 6.05 23 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 6.15 24 Isaac Suarez (Spa) 6.45 25 Jens Schwedler (Ger) 7.30 26 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) 1 lap 27 Roel van Houtum (Ned) 28 David Seco (Spa) 29 Rob Meiland (Ned) 30 Vasco de Kinkelder (Ned) 41 starters Espoirs 1 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 51.00 2 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 0.10 3 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 0.30 4 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) 0.45 5 Tim Pauwels (Bel) 1.10 6 Martin Bina (Cze) 1.20 7 Gerben de Vries (Ned) 2.10 8 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 2.25 9 David Kasec (Cze) 2.35 10 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 2.50 11 Stijn Penne (Bel) 2.51 12 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 2.55 13 Nicky David (Cze) 3.10 14 Martin Zlamanik (Cze) 3.20 15 Tommy Nielsen (Den) 3.21 16 Geert Wellens (Bel) 3.22 17 Jorn Van der Veken (Bel) 3.23 18 Guus Magielse (Ned) 3.40 19 Bart Dirckx (Ned) 3.50 20 E Verrijt (Ned) 4.00 21 Jan Geerts (Bel) 5.00 22 Frank van Grootel (Ned) 5.50 23 Kim Petersen (Den) 5.51 24 Bernd Sudhoff (Ger) 5.52 25 Jeffrey Soisson (Fra) 6.30 26 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Pol) 6.45 27 Ronald Bastemeijer (Ned) 6.46 28 Coen Sevens (Ned) 8.00 29 Ronnie Timmermsans (Ned) 8.01 30 A Hansen (Ned) 8.30 43 starters Juniors 1 Lars Boom (Ned) 37.30 2 Eddy Van Ijzendoorn (Ned) 1.05 3 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) 1.25 4 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) 1.30 5 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) 1.31 6 Kevin Van Lierde (Bel) 1.50 7 Roman Kreuzer (Cze) 1.51 8 Slawomir Pituch (Pol) 2.00 9 Bram Wind (Ned) 2.10 10 Ladislav Sulc (Cze) 2.11 11 Maxime Debusschere (Bel) 2.12 12 Gerald Uyttersprot (Bel) 2.30 13 Joris Wijnen (Bel) 2.31 14 Bart Veyt (Bel) 2.40 15 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 2.55 16 Thijs van Amerongen (Ned) 2.56 17 Joeri Kouwenhoven (Ned) 3.00 18 S Kleinligtebeld (Ned) 3.01 19 Enrico Liebe (Ned) 3.10 20 Jeroen Thielemans (Bel) 3.11 21 Jeroen Dingemans (Bel) 3.30 22 Niels van Baar (Ned) 4.00 23 Dieter Buyens (Bel) 4.01 24 Jonas Coopmans (Bel) 4.30 25 Daan de Jonge (Ned) 4.31 26 Michiel van der Linde (Ned) 5.10 27 Rik Jonkheijm (Ned) 5.30 28 Davy Gorissen (Ned) 5.31 29 Finn Heitmann (Ger) 5.32 30 Rikke Dijkxhoorn (Ned) 6.00 31 Jerry Kallenfels (Ned) 6.10 32 Bert Van Erdeghem (Bel) 6.11 33 Maarten de Jonge (Ned) 6.12 34 Stein Posthuma (Ned) 6.30 35 Erik Hopman (Ned) 6.31 36 Steven Mengels (Ned) 6.32 37 Rob Nelissen (Ned) 6.33 38 Koen Boelens (Bel) 7.10 75 starters
Superprestige Standings after Round 2
Elite Men 1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 60 pts 2 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 50 3 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 40 4 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 37 5 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 33 6 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 32 7 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 26 8 Ben Berden (Bel) Spaar Select 26 9 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 24 10 Wim Jacobs (Bel) 20 11 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 20 12 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) WG Beveren 2000 17 13 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 16 14 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 13 15 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 11 16 Maarten Nijland (Ned) 10 17 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 6 18 Camiel van den Bergh (Ned) 5 19 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 5 20 Wilant van Gils (Ned) 4 21 Pedro Baelen (Bel) 3 22 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 3 23 Eddy Van Bouwel (Bel) 1 Espoirs 1 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 60 pts 2 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) 43 3 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 40 4 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 38 5 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 33 6 Tim Pauwels (Bel) 30 7 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 24 8 Geert Wellens (Bel) 23 9 Nicky David (Bel) 21 10 Martin Bina (Cze) 18 11 Martin Zlamanik (Cze) 17 12 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 16 13 Stijn Penne (Bel) 14 14 Gerben de Vries (Ned) 14 15 David Kasek (Cze) 13 16 Radomir Simunek (Cze) 12 17 Jan Soetens (Bel) 9 18 Mike Thielemans (Bel) 8 19 Jorn Van der Veken (Bel) 6 20 Nick Sels (Bel) 6 21 Tommy Nielsen (Den) 6 22 Simon Zachner (Swi) 5 23 Guus Magielse (Ned) 3 24 Bart Dirckx (Ned) 2 25 E Verrijt (Ned) 1 Juniors 1 Eddy Van IJzendoorn (Ned) 50 pts 2 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) 35 3 Kevin Van Lierde (Bel) 33 4 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) 30 5 Lars Boom (Ned) 30 6 Bram Wind (Ned) 28 7 Gerald Uytersprot (Bel) 24 8 Tom Van den Bosch (Bel) 22 9 Maxime Debusschere (Bel) 21 10 Bart Veyt (Bel) 19 11 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) 18 12 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) 16 13 Joris Wijnen (Bel) 15 14 Bart Verschueren (Bel) 14 15 Roman Kreuzer (Cze) 14 16 Slawomir Pituch (Pol) 13 17 Ladislav Sulc (Cze) 11 18 Jeroen Dingemans (Bel) 10 19 Koen Boelens (Bel) 9 20 Jeroen Thielemans (Bel) 9 21 Quincy Vens (Bel) 6 22 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 6 23 Toon Devenyns (Bel) 5 24 Thijs van Amerongen (Ned) 5 25 Nils Ferlin (Bel) 4 26 Joeri Kouwenhoven (Ned) 4 27 Harm Vandekerckhove (Bel) 3 28 S Kleinligtebed (Ned) 3 29 Daan Dejonghe (Ned) 2 30 Enrico Liebe (Ned) 2 31 Kenny Geluykens (Bel) 1
Past winners
2001 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 2000 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
