56th Dwars door Vlaanderen - 1.2Belgium, March 28, 20012000 Results Results Past winners Eeckhout wins in WaregemBelgian Nico Eeckhout (Lotto) has won the 56th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen, a 201 kilometre race between Kortijk and Waregem containing several of the hills used in the upcoming Ronde van Vlaanderen. In windy and rainy conditions, Eeckhout attacked after just 8 kilometres with his teammate Thierry Marichal, eventually leaving Marichal in the final 50 kilometres to win solo. Following Eeckhout there was a group of 12 pursuers with Nico Mattan, Paolo Bettini, Jaan Kirsipuu, Leon van Bon and Tristan Hoffman, but Eeckhout was too strong. Domo's Wilfried Peeters finished second ahead of Arvis Piziks (CSC-World Online).
Results - 201 km1 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 5.09.08 (39.983 km/h) 2 Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.03 3 Arvis Piziks (Lat) CSC-World Online 4 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R Prevoyance 5 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) CSC-World Online 6 Servais Knaven (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 7 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Mercury-Viatel 8 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 9 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio 10 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 11 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis 12 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Mapei 3.47 13 Hendrik Van Dijk (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 4.22 14 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team Coast 4.30 15 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank 16 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 17 Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei-Quickstep 18 Tom Desmet (Bel) Bankgiroloterij 19 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 20 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 4.37 21 Frank Hoj (Den) Team Coast 4.51 22 Michel Van Haecke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Alessio 24 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 25 Roger Hammond (GBr) Collstrop-Palmans 26 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 27 Jurgen Guns (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 28 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 29 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 30 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis 31 Kristof Trouve (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 4.57 32 Stefan Kupfernagel (Ger) Team Cologne 7.03 33 Fabian De Waele (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 34 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 35 Karel Vereecke (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 7.25 36 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 37 Michael Steen Nielsen (Den) CSC-World Online 38 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 39 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 40 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Alexia Alluminio Past winnersA Travers la Belgique 2000 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) 1999 (2) Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1998 Tom Steels (Bel) 1997 Andrej Tchmil (Mda) 1996 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) 1995 (2) Jelle Nijdam (Ned) 1994 Carlo Bomans (Bel) 1993 Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1992 Olaf Ludwig (Ger) 1991 (2) Eric Vanderaerden (Bel) 1990 Edwig Van Hooydonck (Bel) 1989 Dirk De Wolf (Bel) 1988 (2) Eddy Planckaert (Bel) 1987 Jelle Nijdam (Bel) 1986 Eric Vanderaerden (Bel) 1985 Eddy Planckaert (Bel) 1984 (2) Walter Planckaert (Bel) 1983 Etienne De Wilde (Bel) 1982 Jan Raas (Ned) 1981 Frank Hoste (Bel) 1980 Johan Van der Meer (Bel) 1979 Gustave Van Roosbroeck (Bel) 1978 Adri Schipper (Ned) 1977 Walter Planckaert (Bel) 1976 Willy Planckaert (Bel) 1975 Cees Priem (Ned) 1974 Louis Verreydt (Bel) 1973 Roger Loysch (Bel) 1972 Marc Demeyer (Bel) 1970 (2) Daniel Van Ryckegem (Bel) 1969 Eric Leman (Bel) 1968 (2) Walter Godefroot (Bel) 1967 Daniel Van Ryckegem (Bel) 1966 Walter Godefroot (Bel) Dwars door Belgie 1965 Albert Hermans (Bel) 1964 Piet Van Est (Ned) 1963 Clément Roman (Bel) 1962 Martin Van Geneugden (Bel) 1961 Maurice Meuleman (Bel) 1960 Arthur Decabooter (Bel) 1959 Roger Baens (Bel) 1958 André Vlayen (Bel) 1957 Noél Fore (Bel) 1956 Lucien Demunster (Bel) 1955 (2) Alberic Schotte (Bel) 1954 Germain Derijcke (Bel) 1953 Alberic Schotte (Bel) 1952 André Maelbrancke (Bel) 1951 (2) Raymond Impanis (Bel) 1950 (2) André Rosseel (Bel) 1949 Raymond Impanis (Bel) 1948 André Rosseel (Bel) 1947 Albert Sercu (Bel) 1946 Maurice Desimplaere (Bel) 1945 b) Rik Van Steenbergen (Bel) 1945 a) Joseph Somers (Bel) Past winners courtesy of Mario Stiehl, Berlin |