40 kms from the end, first with 5, then with 7 and then 10 tried to go against the wind and breakaway. At 10 kms to go, there were 23 riders driving. Jurgen Vermeersch was a km further on still. Dalgaard, Petersen, Vandaele, De Meester and Van Malderghem reacted with hard attacks by Peterson and Dalgaard. With 2 kms to go, he was caught by the hard work of Vandaele, who took the flowers for the 5th time of the season.
1. Robbie Vandaele (Bel) 3.45.00 2. Steven Van Malderghem 0.02 3. Hans De Meester 0.07 4. Jurgen Vermeersch 5. Gert Vanderaerden 0.23 6. Oleg Pankov (Oek) 7. Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) 0.34 8. Niklas Axelsson (Swe) 9. Peter Spaenhoven 0.36 10. Pavel Khamidouline (Rus) 11. Claude Lamour (Fra) 12. Pedro Rubrecht 0.40 13. Rik Van Slycke 14. Sébastien Demarbaix 15. Matthew Gilmore (Australia) 16. Gino Verheyden 17. Ronny Assez 18. Jean-François Anti (Fra) 19. Michel Vanhaecke 20. Marc Streel 21. Johan Capiot 22. Niko Eeckhout 23. Brian Dalgaard (Den) 24. Ludovic Capelle 25. Martin van Steen (Ned) 26. Sören Petersen (Den) 27. Phil Jacob Storm (Nor) 28. Tim Lenaers 29. Casper van der Meer (Ned) 30. Frank Perque (Fra) 108 Starters Belgian unless noted