Junior Men - February 3: 11:00

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Pauwels gets Belgians off to flying start

By Rob Karman in Zolder

Kevin Pauwels Photo ©: Rob Karman

Crowd favorite Kevin Pauwels of Belgium won the Junior title at the Cyclo-Cross World Championships in Zolder Belgium today. Quickly going to the front, he made it into the leading selection of eight riders on the first lap and managed to get a small gap on lap two. He sat up and waited for the chasers to regain contact preferring to share the pacemaking rather than forge on alone.

With 1.5 laps to go, a strong move by Czech Republic rider Jaroslav Kulhavy with excellent blocking by teammate Zdenek Stybar put evryone in trouble, except the young Belgian who quickly countered and rode in to finish with a comfortable gap of 11 seconds. Polish rider Krzysztof Kuzniak passed the two Czechs to take second.

Photography

Photo's by Rob Karman/www.mtnbikephotos.com.

• Junior men's winner Kevin Pauwels (Bel) - at the top of the course
• Kevin Pauwels - leads the pack on the descent
• Kevin Pauwels - leads the junior men's pack
• Kevin Pauwels - on his own, heading for victory
• Krzysztof Kuzniak (Poland) - was the silver medalist in the Junior Men's category
• Zdenek Stybar (Cze) - eventually finished third in the Junior Men.

Results - 18.288 km

1 Kevin Pauwels (Bel)                     43.41 (25.119 km/h)
2 Krzysztof Kuzniak (Pol)                  0.11
3 Zdenek Stybar (Cze)                      0.15
4 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze)                   0.26
5 Mike Thielemans (Bel)                    0.34
6 Felix Gniot (Ger)
7 Derik Zampedri (Ita)
8 Jens Petroll (Ger)                       0.37
9 D. Vanthourenhout (Bel)                  0.44
10 Pirmin Lang (Swi)                       0.56
11 Romain Fondard (Fra)                    1.00
12 Romain Villa (Fra)                      1.02
13 Jan Soetens (Bel)                       1.04
14 Jan Sel (Cze)
15 Thorsten Struch (Ger)                   1.05
16 Pavel Adel (Cze)                        1.19
17 Frank Van Grootel (Ned)                 1.22
18 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned)              1.27
19 Luca Damiani (Ita)
20 Gregory Devaud (Swi)
21 Adrien Delautre (Fra)                   1.29
22 Aaron Bradford (USA)                    1.30
23 Stefano Basso (Ita)                     1.41
24 Nick Sels (Bel)                         2.03
25 Stefan Trafelet (Swi)                   2.03
26 Laurent Didier (Lux)                    2.17
27 Lukasz Mudyn (Pol)                      2.32
28 Lukas Flückiger (Swi)                   2.32
29 Ladislav Sulc (Cze)                     2.40
30 Eddy Van Ijzendoorn (Ned)               2.42
31 Guus Magielse (Ned)                     2.43
32 Fabien Pedemanaud (Fra)                 2.47
33 Jesse Anthony (USA)                     2.54
34 Benjamin Hill (Ger)                     3.31
35 Andy Schleck (Lux)                      3.37
36 Stefan Gajdosik (Svk)                   3.42
37 Lubomir Glovniak (Svk)                  3.50
38 Lars Boom (Ned)                         3.52
39 Mike House (USA)
40 Brent Bookwalter (USA)                  4.04
41 Beat Bertschinger (Swi)                 4.20
42 Eladio Sanchez (Spa)
43 Slawomir Splawski (Pol)                 4.47
44 Mateusz Taciak (Pol)
45 Asier Corchero (Spa)                    4.59
46 Steven Roach (GBr)                      5.07
47 S. Joergensen (Den)
48 Nicolas Belot (Fra)                     5.11
49 Chris Hill (USA)                        5.20
50 Matthew Pritchard (GBr)                 5.30
51 Daniele Balducci (Ita)                  5.40
52 Evgueni Petchenine (Rus)                6.02
53 Xavier Goenaga (Spa)                    6.11
54 Tsuji Yoshimitsu (Jpn)                  6.25
55 Adam Gascoigne (GBr)                    6.27
56 Lukas Batora (Svk)                      7.19
57 Mark Russell (GBr)                      7.45
58 Nestor Rodriguez (Spa)                  8.39
59 Onaitz Munduate (Spa)                   9.43

1 lap behind

60 Nikolay Zagulyaev (Rus)
61 Denys Pogrebnyak (Ukr)
62 Klaus Leeb (Aut)

DNF Flavio Alex Longhi (Ita)
DNF Rasim Latifov (Ukr)
DNF Dumitru Crecium (Mda)

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