2000 Results Results Past winners
Spaar Select's World Champion Erwin Vervecken was the best rider in round 2 of the Superprestige series, held in the Dutch town of St-Michielsgestel. He beat the other favourites Sven Nijs (Rabobank) and Bart Wellens (Spaar Select), moving into the equal lead of the SP points series, along with Wellens who is also on 51 points.
All the usual favourites were at the start: Richard Groenendaal, Sven Nijs (Rabobank), Bart Wellens, Erwin Vervecken and Peter van Santvliet (Spaar Select), Tom Vannoppen (Vlaanderen) and Mario de Clercq (Domo). The latter was in doubt for this race after he abandoned on Friday in Contern due to back pain, however he decided to start today.
The parcours and hence the race were quite fast, and Nijs was the early leader. Nijs attacked on lap 3, and only Vervecken could go with him. The pair held a five second lead over Gerben de Knegt, who was caught by a group with Groenendaal, Wellens, Vanoppen and Van Den Bergh.
However, Nijs and Vervecken were too strong, and kept increasing their lead as the composition of the chase group changed to Wellens, Vannoppen, Van Santvliet and De Knegt. On the last lap, Nijs opened up a small gap over Vercecken, but the World Champion came back to outsprint Nijs for his first SuperPrestige win of the season. Third place went to Bart Wellens, who is now the co-leader of the SP with Vervecken.
Men 1 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 2 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 0.01 3 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 0.47 4 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 0.49 5 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 0.50 6 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 0.52 7 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Mez Team 0.53 8 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 0.54 9 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 0.55 10 Bjorn Rondelez (Bel) 0.58 11 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 1.20 12 Camiel Van Den Bergh (Ned) Bert Story - Piels 1.29 13 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Den Tip Vorselaar 1.30 14 Maarten Nijland (Ned) ) WTC Woerden 1.33 15 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 2.19 16 Thijs Verhagen (Ned) 2.35 17 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 2.38 18 David Kasek (Cze) 3.16 19 Kipcho Volckaerts (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 3.23 20 Tomas Trunschka (Cze) 3.24 21 Wilant Van Gils (Ned) 3.40 22 Geert Wellens (Bel) 4.01 23 Guido Mutsaars (Ned) 4.09 24 Wilfried Bastiaan (Ned) 5.00 25 Rob Meiland (Ned) 6.04 26 Jurgen Van Limpt (Ned) 27 Ronald Bastemeijer (Ned) 28 Dannie Van Vianen (Ned) Women 1 Daphny van den Brand (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 31.43 2 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 0.25 3 Anja Nobus (Bel) 0.26 4 Janneke Vos (Ned) Ondernemers van Nature 0.27 5 Reza Hormes-Ravenstijn (Ned) 1.07 Superprestige standings after round 2 1 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Spaar Select 51 pts 2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 51 3 Sven Nijs (Bel) Rabobank 50 4 Mario De Clercq (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 32 5 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 32 6 Gerben De Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 28 7 Sven Vanthourenhout (Bel) Mez Team 27 8 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Spaar Select 26 9 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 24 10 Björn Rondelez (Bel) 23 11 Camiel Van Den Bergh (Ned) Bert Story - Piels 19 12 Geoffrey Clochez (Fra) Julie Nature 17 13 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 16 14 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Beveren 2000 9 15 Arne Daelmans (Bel) Den Tip Vorselaar 8 16 Ben Berden (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 8 17 Maarten Nijland (Ned) ) WTC Woerden 7 18 Marc Janssens (Ned) Collstrop-Palmans 7 19 Thijs Verhaegen (Ned) 6 20 Bart Aernouts (Bel) 4 21 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnag 4 22 Gretienus Gommers (Ned) Bouwbedrijf Rietveld 3 23 David Kasek (Cze) 3 24 Kipcho Volckaerts (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 2 25 David Seco (Spa) Euskaltel 2 26 Tomas Trunschka (Cze) 1 27 Kris Wouters (Bel) Nationale Militaire 1
2000 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank