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Superprestige #3 - Gavere-Asper - C1
Gavere, Belgium, November 17, 2002
2001 Results Results Past winners
Wellens stops the Nijs charge
By João Cravo
The Belgian Bart Wellens easily won the third round of the Superprestige series held in Gavere-Asper. The Spaar Select rider rode most of the way on his own after leaving the other riders on the second lap, never to be caught. In second place, at a considerable distance from the leader and from each other, were World Champion Mario de Clercq (Palmans) and Peter Van Santvliet (Spaar Select), who also kept their positions for the whole race.
Series leader Sven Nijs (Rabobank) finished 4th at 2'17, but retained his points lead. Nijs, who became a father late last week, was part of a bunch of four riders, including Richard Groenendaal, Erwin Vervecken and Tom Vannoppen. They rode together along the race until the penultimate lap when Nijs decided to ride a little quicker than his colleagues in order to gain a 9 second gap.
Despite the impressive demonstration of power from Wellens - it was the most impressive we've seen this Cyclo-cross season so far - the race was a little monotonous.
The Dutch rider Wim De Vos (Spaar Select) found himself unconscious after a truly bad crash and and the paramedics took him to hospital.
Results
Elite 1 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 58.18 2 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 1.22 3 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 1.48 4 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 2.17 5 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 2.25 6 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 7 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 8 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 3.22 9 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 3.38 10 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 3.49 11 Ben Berden (Bel) Spaar Select 4.11 12 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 4.38 13 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 4.53 14 Matthew Ellis (GBr) 5.09 15 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 5.44 16 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) 1 lap 17 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 18 Maarten Nijland (Ned) 19 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 20 Nico Henderickx (Bel) 21 Jonathan Page (USA) 22 Ronny Poelvoorde (Bel) 38 starters Espoirs 1 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 49.00 2 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 0.17 3 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) 0.45 4 Martin Bina (Cze) 1.15 5 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 1.53 6 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 2.04 7 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 2.07 8 David Kasek (Cze) 2.14 9 Stijn Penne (Bel) 2.31 10 Jan Soetens (Bel) 2.51 11 Tim Pauwels (Bel) 3.24 12 Adrien Delautre (Fra) 3.43 13 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Pol) 4.22 14 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 4.47 15 Jorn Van der Veken (Bel) 5.15 16 Jefferson Soissons (Fra) 6.00 17 Mike Thielemans (Bel) 6.59 18 Jan Geerts (Bel) 1 lap 19 Ries van der Sanden (Ned) 20 Jérôme Boussekey (Fra) 21 Gerben de Vries (Ned) 28 starters Juniors 1 Lars Boom (Ned) 44.00 2 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) 0.57 3 Eddy van Ijzendoorn (Ned) 1.57 4 Kevin Van Lierde (Bel) 3.12 5 Maxime Debusschere (Bel) 3.20 6 Sebastian Langveld (Ned) 7 Alois Lievens (Bel) 3.33 8 Finn Hietmann (Ger) 3.38 9 Daan de Jonge (Ned) 4.11 10 Bart Verschueren (Bel) 4.30 11 Gerald Uytersprot (Bel) 5.20 12 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 5.30 13 Quincy Vens (Bel) 5.30 14 Rikke Dijckxhoorn (Ned) 5.46 15 Ward Demets (Bel) 5.53 16 Bart Veyt (Bel) 6.28 17 Nard van der Sanden (Ned) 6.51 18 Wesley Roos (Bel) 7.00 19 Toon Devenyns (Bel) 7.07 20 Steven Van Vooren (Bel) 1 lap 21 Maarten de Jonge (Ned) 26 starters Beginners 1 Pieter Vanspeybroeck (Bel) 31.00 2 Stijn Joseph (Bel) 0.40 3 Ricardo van der Velde (Ned) 0.58 4 Patrick Vliegen (Ned) 2.27 5 Jan Van Zeebroeck (Bel) 3.01 6 Tom Lambrechts (Bel) 3.30 7 Quentin Bertholet (Bel) 4.02 8 Jan Van Dael (Bel) 5.10 9 Matthieu Holvoet (Bel) 1 lap 10 Matthias Holvoet (Bel) 11 Ruben Depoortere (Bel) 12 starters Women 1 Anja Nobus (Bel) 43.00 2 Hilde Quintens (Bel) 0.18 3 Reza Hormes-Ravenstijn (Ned) 1.05 4 Katleen Vermeiren (Bel) 1.15 5 Nicole De Bie-Leijten (Bel) 1.42 6 Nicole Kampeter (Ger) 3.40 7 Elly van Boxmeer (Ned) 7.40 8 Katrien Aerts (Bel) 8.25 9 Viviane Vasse (Ger) 1 lap 10 Natasja Nobels (Bel) 11 Natasja van Loon (Ned) (Bel) 12 Sandy Vertrist (Bel) 13 Ann Van Rechmen (Bel) 14 Marianne Vos (Ned) 15 Nancy Bollansee (Bel) 15 starters
Superprestige Standings after round 3
Elite 1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 78 pts 2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 66 3 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 65 4 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 55 5 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 47 6 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 46 7 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 41 8 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 38 9 Ben Berden (Bel) Spaar Select 36 10 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 33 11 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Vlaanderen - T Interim 31 12 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Author Praha 28 13 Wim Jacobs (Bel) 20 14 Petr Dlask (Cze) Author Praha 18 15 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) WG Beveren 2000 17 16 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans-Collstrop 15 17 Maarten Nijland (Ned) 13 18 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Cologne 9 19 Matthew Ellis (GBr) 7 20 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 6 21 Camiel Van Den Bergh (Ned) 5 21 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) 5 23 Wilant Van Gils (Ned) 4 24 Pedro Baelen (Bel) 3 25 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 2 26 Eddy Van Bouwel (Bel) 1 26 Nico Henderickx (Bel) Pizza Italia 1 Espoirs 1 Wesley Van der Linden (Bel) 76 pts 2 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel) 67 3 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 65 4 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) 64 5 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 47 6 Tim Pauwels (Bel) 40 7 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) 38 8 Martin Bina (Cze) 36 9 Stijn Penne (Bel) 26 9 David Kasek (Cze) 26 11 Geert Wellens (Bel) 23 11 Mariusz Gil (Pol) 23 13 Nicky David (Bel) 21 14 Jan Soetens (Bel) 20 15 Martin Zlamanek (Cze) 17 16 Gerben de Vries (Ned) 14 17 Jorn Van der Veken (Bel) 12 17 Mike Thielemans (Bel) 12 17 Radomir Simunek (Cze) 12 20 Adrien Delautre (Fra) 9 21 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Pol) 8 22 Nick Sels (Bel) 6 22 Tommy Nielsen (Den) 6 24 Simon Zachner (Zwi) 5 24 Jefferson Soissons (Fra) 5 26 Guus Magielse (Ned) 3 26 Jan Geerts (Bel) 3 28 Ries van der Sanden (Ned) 2 28 Bart Dirckx (Ned) 2 30 E Verrijt (Ned) 1 30 Jérôme Boussekey (Fra) 1 Juniors 1 Eddy van Ijzendoorn (Ned) 71 pts 2 Lars Boom (Ned) 60 3 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) 55 4 Kevin Van Lierde (Bel) 51 5 Sebastian Langveld (Ned) 49 6 Maxime Debusschere (Bel) 37 7 Gerald Uytersprot (Bel) 34 8 Bram Wind (Ned) 28 9 Bart Verschueren (Bel) 25 10 Bart Veyt (Bel) 24 11 Tom Van den Bosch (Bel) 21 12 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) 18 13 Frantisek Kloucek (Cze) 16 14 Joris Wijnen (Bel) 15 14 Egon van Kessel (Ned) 15 16 Roman Kreuzer (Cze) 14 16 Quincy Vens (Bel) 14 16 Daan de Jonghe (Ned) 14 16 Alois Lievens (Bel) 14 20 Slawomir Pituch (Pol) 13 20 Finn Hietmann (Ger) 13 22 Ladislav Sulc (Cze) 11 23 Jeroen Dingemans (Bel) 10 24 Koen Boelens (Bel) 9 24 Jeroen Thielemans (Bel) 9 26 Toon Devenyns (Bel) 7 26 Rikkie Dijckxhoorn (Ned) 7 28 Ward Demets (Bel) 6 29 Thijs van Amerongen (Ned) 5 30 Nils Ferlin (Bel) 4 30 Joeri Kouwenhoven (Ned) 4 30 Nard van der Sanden (Ned) 4 33 Harm Vandekerckhove (Bel) 2 33 S Kleinligtebed (Ned) 2 33 Wesley Roos (Bel) 3 36 Enrico Liebe (Ned) 2 37 Kenny Geluykens (Bel) 1 37 Steven Van Vooren (Bel) 1
Past winners
2001 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 2000 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 1999 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
