Cyclocross World Cup #5 - CDM

Zeddam, Netherlands, January 7, 2001

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Nijs impresses again

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Groenendaal and Dlask
Photo: © Ruud Voest

Belgian Sven Nijs won the penultimate round of the Cyclocross World Cup, the GP Nederland in Zeddam. Nijs finished in front of Czech Petr Dlask and Richard Groenendaal (Ned). It was Nijs' second World Cup victory this season, and his seventh in total.

Nijs started the race in front with Dlask and Groenendaal and the three stayed together until three laps from the end. Then Groenendaal experienced bike trouble, and lost ground on the other two. He managed to get going again to eventually finish third despite a fall on the second last lap.

Meanwhile, Nijs successfully attacked Dlask and finished solo, commenting afterwards that he benefitted from Groenendaal's errors. The latter has a 49 point lead in the World Cup competition from Bart Wellens, who could only finish 7th today. The overall championship will be decided in the final round on January 21 in Pontchâteau, France

Results

Espoirs/Elite

1 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank             1.03.35 
2 Petr Dlask (Cze) Czech Republic         0.10 
3 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank      0.47 
4 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) RVS Liege         1.05 
5 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites  1.06 
6 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 	  1.08 
7 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select	  1.28 
8 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select           1.42 
9 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select  1.56 
10 Jiri Pospisil (Cze) Czech Republic     2.18 
11 Beat Wabel (Swi)
12 Gretinus Gommers (Ned) WTC Woerden
13 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002	  3.00  
14 Roland Schätti (Swi) Mephisto Romers
15 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team
16 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) Czech Republic
17 Camiel van den Bergh (Ned)
18 David Derepas (Fra)
19 Thomas Frischknecht (Swi)
20 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze)
21 Luca Bramati (Ita)
22 Valeriano Vandelli (Ita)
23 Henrik Djernis (Den)
24 Emil Hekele (Cze) Czech Republic
25 Matthew Ellis (GBr)
26 Peter Riis Andersen (Den)
27 Wilant van Gils (Ned) Uden
28 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) Ekolog
29 Enrico Franzoi (Ita)
30 Julien Absalon (Fra)

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U23/Espoirs

1 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel)    52.24
2 Thijs Verhagen (Bel)		0.24
3 Davy Commeyne	(Bel)		0.34
4 Bart Aernouts (Bel)		1.10
5 Tim Van Nuffel (Bel)		1.19
6 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned)		1.51
7 David Kasek (Cze)		2.05
8 Wouter Bunning (Ned)		2.17
9 Kim Petersen (Den)		2.29
10 Dennis Kools (Ned)		2.34

Women

1 Daphny van den Brand (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol
2 Louise Robinson (GBr)
3 Corine Dorland (Ned)

World Cup standings after round 5: 

1 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank	 250 pts
2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select	 201
3 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) RVS Liege        190
4 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 183
5 Petr Dlask (Cze) Czech Republic	 173
6 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank		 166
7 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002    138
8 Jiri Pospisil (Cze) Czech Republic	 119
9 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 	 103
10 Beat Wabel (Swi)                      101
 
Countries

1 Belgium		48 pts
2 Czech Republic	35 
3 Netherlands		33 
4 Italy 		25 
5 France		23