37th Omloop van het Waasland - 1.5Kemzeke, Belgium, March 18, 20012000 Results Results Past winners Van Steen wins in KemzekeDutchman Martin van Steen (Bankgiroloterij-Batavus) has won the 37th Omloop van het Waasland in Kemzeke, amidst terrible weather. The rider beat Domo's Wilfried Cretskens and Big Mat's Franck Pencole, both of whom finished 10 seconds behind him. Van Steen made is attack with two kilometres left, escaping from the five man group he was in to win. The others in the break included Aart Vierhouten (Rabobank, 4th) and David Tani (Mapei, 5th). Most were glad to get into the showers at the end of the day after being rained on and frozen for 20 laps.
Results - 190 km1 Martin Van Steen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 4.33.17 (41.74 km/h) 2 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 0.10 3 Frank Pencole (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 4 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 5 David Tani (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 6 Bert Hiemstra (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 0.45 7 Patrick Van Roosbroeck (Bel) 0.53 8 Martijn Alberts (Bel) Willebrord W.V. 9 Jurgen Diependaele (Bel) St.Martinus CT 10 Arve Hvam (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 11 Tim Lenaers (Bel) 12 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) 13 Kristof Gryson (Bel) 14 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank 15 Marco Engels (Bel) Willebrord W.V. 16 Karel Vereecke (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 17 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 18 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Collstrop-Palmans 19 Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 20 Bram de Groot (Ned) Rabobank 21 Eddy Lembo (Fra) Jean Delatour 1.00 22 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.03 23 Tom Desmet (Bel) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus 1.43 24 Dennis Rasmussen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 2.03 25 Gregory Rast (Swi) Post Swiss Team 2.24 26 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Mapei-Quick Step 2.41 27 Kurt Diependaele (Bel) 28 Didier Dreesen (Bel) 29 Jeanico Roelandt (Bel) St.Martinus CT 3.10 30 Tim De Peuter (Bel) Kortrijk Groeninge Spurters 31 Tom Volders (Bel) 4.24 32 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Post Swiss Team 33 Jacob Gram Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens Past winners2000 Jans Koerts (Ned) |