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17th Memorial Rik van Steenbergen - 1.1
Belgium, September 5, 2007
2006 Results Results Past winners
Van Avermaet strongest in Antwerp
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Greg Van Avermaet (Predictor-Lotto) pulled out a blistering sprint in order to win the Memorial Rik van Steenbergen outside of Antwerp, coming in well ahead of last year's winner Nico Eeckhout (Chocolade Jacques) and Steven De Jongh (Quickstep-Innergetic). The winner came from a group of 15 which broke free of the peloton early in the race including four riders from the Unibet.com team: Baden Cooke, Jeremy Hunt, Pieter Jacobs and Gorik Gardeyn.
Even with strength in numbers, the beleaguered team could not pull out a win. Hunt attacked in the finishing circuits, but could not stay clear, while Wouter Weylandt crashed out of the break in the final kilometres. In the end, Van Avermaet was able to get the better of his companions without the benefit of team-mates.
The 22 year-old got his first professional victory in the Tour of Qatar in January, but the win on his home soil meant something different. "This is without doubt my most beautiful victory of the season," Van Avermaet told sporza.be. "I kept calm the entire race and jumped with the decisive move. The fall of Weylandt was actually beneficial for me. I went at the right moment. I know that even after a race of 200 km I can still come out of a corner strong."
Photography
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Results - 200 km
1 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 4.30.08 (44.645 km/h) 2 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 3 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic 4 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Unibet.com 6 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Unibet.com 7 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 0.04 8 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 0.12 9 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) Unibet.com 0.17 10 Gregory Joseph (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 11 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 12 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 13 Joaquim Ortega Gascon (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 14 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 0.25 15 Stefan Van Dijk (Ned) Team Wiesenhof Felt 1.55 16 Matti Helminen (Fin) DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 17 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 18 René Haselbacher (Aut) Astana 19 Fabien Bacquet (Fra) Skil-Shimano 20 Nick Ingels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 21 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 22 Cyrille Heymans (Lux) Pictoflex-Thompson-Hyundai 23 Jurgen Van Loocke (Bel) Palmans Collstrop 24 Lars Croket (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 25 Davy Commeyne (Bel) Palmans Collstrop 26 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 27 Michael Vanderaerden (Bel) DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 28 Detlev Moerman (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 29 Michael Van Stayen (Bel) Davo 30 Robby Meul (Bel) DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 31 Pieter Muys (Bel) Babes Only-Villapark Langemeer-Flanders 32 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Babes Only-Villapark Langemeer-Flanders 33 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 34 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 35 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 36 Sven Van Den Houte (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 37 Jef Michels (Bel) Pictoflex-Thompson-Hyundai 38 Tim Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 39 Fang Xu (Chn) Skil-Shimano 40 Carlo Westphal (Ger) Gerolsteiner 41 Kevin Van Den Eeckhout (Bel) Profel Ziegler Continental Team 42 Kane Oakley (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 43 Matthias Frank (Swi) Gerolsteiner 44 Robert Wagner (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 45 Clément l'Hottelerie (Fra) Skil-Shimano 46 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana 47 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) Team Wiesenhof Felt 48 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 49 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana 50 Anthony Van Den Berghe (Bel) Davo 51 Ji Cheng (Chn) Skil-Shimano 52 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Amore & Vita-McDonalds 53 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 54 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Unibet.com 55 Peter Wuyts (Bel) Palmans Collstrop 56 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Unibet.com 57 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 58 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 59 Daniel Musiol (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt 60 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 61 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 62 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 63 Steven De Neef (Bel) Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen 64 Rodrigo Garcia Rena (Spa) Fuerteventura-Canarias 65 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Babes Only-Villapark Langemeer-Flanders 66 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 67 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 68 Bart Veyt (Bel) Profel Ziegler Continental Team 69 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil-Shimano 70 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed 71 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 72 Martin Velits (Svk) Team Wiesenhof Felt 73 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic 74 Tom Steels (Bel) Predictor-Lotto 75 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 76 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 77 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 78 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 79 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic 80 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 81 Serguei Ivanov (Rus) Astana 82 Yann Huguet (Fra) Cofidis-Le Crédit par Téléphone 83 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen 2.27
Past winners
2006 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques 200 km in 4.15.30 2005 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance 200 km in 4.17.39 2004 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 201 km in 4.19.00 2003 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Domo 199 km in 4.42.00 2002 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Coast 200 km in 4.25.00 2001 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 2000 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Française Des Jeux 203 km in 4.24.40 1999 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 200 km in 4.32.51 1998 Jan Svorada (Cze) 1997 Andrej Tchmil (Ukr) 1996 Jans Koerts (Ned) 1995 Tom Steels (Bel) 1994 Djamolidine Abdujaparov (Uzb) 1993 Mario Cipollini (Ita) 1992 Olaf Ludwig (Ger) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
