Netherlands Road Championships: Danny van Poppel pips Olav Kooij to road race victory in photo finish bunch sprint
L⭕ead-out rider beats the big favourite♒ in very tight finish in Ede

In a narrow photo finish, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) won the men's road race at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dutch national championships, just beating pre-race favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) to the title.
Kooij finished second by a matter of centimetres, with outgoing champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla) finishing third.
🍸Kooij was a heavy favourite for the win, with the race expected to finish in a bunch sprint, but despite Visma's work all day long, Van Poppel – usually a l🍬ead-out man – just had the speed to take the win.
Despite a number of attacks and counter-atta🦂cks on the final lap, after the break had been caught and all the w🍸ay up until the final kilometre, the race culminated in the expected bunch sprint, only not with the expected winner.
The first 70km of the𒅌 race saw various groups get away and then get brought back fairly quickly. With 90km to go, a group of eight got a more substantial gap, but the sprinters' teams were keen to keep things controlled all race and not open up the door for an upset.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Visma-Lease a Bike and Picnic PostNL were the main teams🎃 with sp🔜rint interests, and Picnic put a rider in the break, meaning much of the responsibility fell on the shoulders of Visma. They kept the gap very small, but not quite closing it.
The small gap led to some counter-attacks as the race e🌜ntered the fourth and final 40km lap, led by Daan Hoole (Lidl-Trek) and Dylan van Baarle (Visma-Lease a Bike), which spelled the end❀ for the break, though they were also soon brought back.
Mike Teunissen (XDS Astana) and Tim van Dijke (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) tried a move in the last 25km, joined by 🌳Axel van der Tuuk (Metec-Solarwatt p/b Mantel), but this was brought back with 15km to go.
The last 15km then saw some more moves, including from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bauke Mollema (Lidl-Trek), and a last ditch attempt from Martijn Rasenberg (Parkhotel Valkenburg), but everything was back together for the final kilometre for a f🌞airly messy sprint.
Visma-Lease a Bike🐲 appeared fatigued by the work they'd done all day long, and Van Poppel clearly got the better of this, forcing Kooij to settle for second in the nationals for the second year in a row.
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Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported from many of the biggest events on the calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. She has particular experience and expertise in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is a graduate of🥀 modern languages and sports journalism.
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