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Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden - Bazel - Kruibeke - 1.3
Belgium, April 17, 2004
2003 Results Results Past winners
Van Dijk in a repeat of 2002
Stefan van Dijk (Lotto-Domo) has repeated his 2002 performance to win the Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden in Kruibeke. Van Dijk beat Dennis Kraft (Action) and Borut Bozic (Perutnina Ptuj) in a sprint of 13 riders, bringing an end to Lotto's run of near misses lately. Incredibly, Brioches La Boulangère had four riders in the lead group, but despite attacking constantly in the last 20 km, the best they could do was 5th with Anthony Geslin.
"I've got a good nose for these sorts of situations," said Van Dijk. "Two years ago I took the Dutch title in identical circumstances. Thus I let Brioches La Boulangère attack, but tried as much as possible to go with them, so that the others had to work. The last attack from one of the Frenchmen came with about five hundred metres from the finish. Bozic reacted and immediately started the sprint. I could take his wheel and the rest was child's play.
"I hope that this win signals the end of a difficult period. In February I suffered with a virus and to build that condition up again was very valuable time lost. But now I still have reserves and I'll try to get a spot in Lotto-Domo's Tour team," finished Van Dijk.
Results - 189 km
1 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Lotto-Domo 4.18.00 2 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action 3 Borut Bozic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 4 Kevin Van Der Slagmolen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 5 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 6 Jens Renders (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 7 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 8 Youri Deliens (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 9 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 10 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 11 Francesco Planckaert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 0.03 12 Unai Yus Querejeta (Spa) Brioches la Boulangère 0.09 13 Rony Martias (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 0.11 14 Björn Leukemans (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 1.27 15 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 16 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 1.31 17 Christoph Roodhooft (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 3.10 18 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 19 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 20 Dimitri De Herdt (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 3.45 21 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 22 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 23 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Action 24 Matthew Gilmore (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 25 Miran Kelner (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 26 Roy Hegreberg (Nor) Jartazi Granville Team 27 Zdenek Mlynar (Cze) ASP Sparta Praha 4.32 28 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 29 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Action 30 Benedek Vörös (Hun) Team ICET 4.37 31 Ronny Assez (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 4.55 32 Josef Soukup (Cze) Czech National Team 5.01 33 Pieter Muys (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 5.45 34 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) Action 35 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Lotto-Domo 36 Ken Devaere (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 37 Marcin Osinski (Pol) Action 38 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 39 Nathan Russell (Aus) Cyclingnews.com 40 Dries Van Der Ginst (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 41 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 42 Jurgen Beeckman (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 43 Stijn Vanstraelen (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 44 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze) Czech National Team 45 David Kasek (Cze) Czech National Team 46 Dimitri Verstichelen (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 47 Branko Filip (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 48 Jehudi Schoonacker (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 49 Bart Cosyn (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 50 Greg Germer (USA) Flanders-Afin.com 51 David Harrigan (Aus) Cyclingnews.com 52 Vincent Van Rijn (Ned) Van Hemert-Eurogifts 53 Niek Voskamp (Ned) AXA Cycling Team 54 Christophe Stevens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 55 Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 56 Martin Hebik (Cze) ASP Sparta Praha 57 Emil Hekele (Cze) ASP Sparta Praha 58 Petr Pucelik (Cze) ASP Sparta Praha 59 Gert Vanderaerden (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-Palmans 60 Daniel Vobora (Cze) Czech National Team 61 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 6.00 62 John Gadret (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 63 Bart De Spieghelaere (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 64 David Meys (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 65 Sébastien Mattozza (Bel) Flanders-Afin.com 66 Matt Rice (Aus) Cyclingnews.com 67 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Brioches la Boulangère 68 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) Flanders-Afin.com 69 Leigh Palmer (Aus) Cyclingnews.com 70 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Domo 71 Wesley Van Speybroeck (Bel) Vlaanderen-T Interim 72 Danny Stam (Ned) AXA Cycling Team 73 Kurt Van Landeghem (Bel) Van Vliet-EBH advocaten 74 Robert Slippens (Ned) AXA Cycling Team 75 Andy Dierckx (Bel) Jartazi Granville Team 76 Jos Pronk (Ned) Van Hemert-Eurogifts Starters: 93
Past winners
2003 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 2002 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Lotto-Adecco 2001 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio 2000 Gianpaolo Mondini (Ita) 1999 Geert Omloop (Bel) 1998 Geert Vanderaerden (Bel) 1997 Franky Van Haesebroucke (Bel) 1996 Rudy Verdonck (Bel) 1995 Wilfried Nelissen (Bel) 1994 Nico Emonds (Bel) 1993 Niko Eeckhout (Bel) 1992 Ludo Giesberts (Bel) 1991 Danny Neskens (Bel) 1990 Adri Van der Poel (Ned) 1989 Jan Bogaert (Bel) 1982 Walter Schoonjans (Bel) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
