Shirin van Anrooij blasts through rain and mud for solo win at Exact Cross Loenhout
Marie Schreiber places secon𝓡d after Van Anrooij dominates in last 'cr🧔oss of 2022

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Shirin van Anrooij (Trek Baloise Lions) more than lived up to her status as pre-race favourite at the Exact Cro𒁃ss in Loenhout, blasting thr𝓀ough rough weather and course conditions to take her third win in a week.
A🍃t the end of a long, 49-minute race, Marie Schreiber (Tormans) placed second, 57 seconds down, after Van Anrooij took off just a lap into the largely flat, rain-soaked, and muddy course in the province of Antwerp. Manon Bakker (Crelan-Fristads) rounded out the podium in third.
Schreiber had tꦺried her luck early on, with Kristyna Zemanova (Brilon-MB) also looking active. However, Van Anrooij was having none of it, the 20-year-old taking off on the first of six laps to dominate the field with ease and capture the last cyclocross race of 2022.
With a second place Superprestige Diegem, wins at the Gavere World Cup and the Exact Cross at Mol to her name in the last week – not to ment𝐆ion a third place in Loenhout in 2020 – Van Anrooij was always likely to be one of the favourites.
And the absence of some of the other top name🦄s like Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, Denise⛎ Betsema and Lucinda Brand, the latter a double winner at Loenhout, made that even more the case.
Still, ꦇas the rain teem💃ed down, Schreiber did push on a little early on the first of six laps with Zemanova hard on her heels, only for Van Anrooij to zip past before the first circuit was completed.
From then on, the Dutchwoman's only real rival was herself, and if Schreiber could more or less maintain the gap on the more technical sections, each time Va🅰n Anrooij hit a faster section, the more her margin increased.
By the end of lap 2, only a major upset could have taken away first place from Van Anrooij, who even eased her pace sligh🌺tly to be sure of avoiding any crashes on the increasingly muddy, waterlogged circuit.
But there were no disasters to speak of, and instead, the Dutc♚hwoman came home for a third win out of four in a week.
Schreiber th🃏en claimed second, over a minute back and Manon Bakker delivered a fine late c🐻harge to overtake Zemanova and solo home to give the Netherlands two of the top three spots on the day. But from almost start to finish the last event of 2022 proved to be a one-rider race.
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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.
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