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It appeared there was no stopping Fem van Empel within the cyclocross World Cup, however Shirin van Anrooij didn’t obtain the memo.
Van Anrooij powered via the ultimate sand sector, and Van Empel was not closing issues down as simpler as she was earlier in Sunday’s World Cup cease at Beekse Bergen.
Van Anrooij, one of the best younger rider on the Tour de France Femmes, hit the ultimate pavement sector with simply sufficient to fend off Van Empel to win her first profession World Cup victory. Puck Pieterse completed third.
“I didn’t make any errors and I raced full-gas on the ultimate lap,” Van Anrooij stated. “I by no means gained an enormous race in cyclocross earlier than, so to win a World Cup is wonderful. I used to be dreaming of getting on a podium this season, and now I win. It’s one thing crucial for me to realize extra confidence. It’s an enormous enhance for the following weeks.”
Van Anrooij attacked coming via on the bell lap with the race nonetheless tightly wound at Beekse Bergen, and was decided to make issues tough.
Van Empel and Puck Pieterse adopted a number of seconds again, with Marianne Vos and Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado chasing a handful of seconds again. It was a top-5 Dutch duel going into the ultimate throes of the race.
Van Anrooij with a shock assault and Pieterse and Van Empel take a look at one another to shut the hole 👀 Van Anrooij’s benefit: lower than 5️⃣ seconds! #CXWorldCup pic.twitter.com/heN8y9eTYQ
— UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup (@UCIcyclocrossWC) November 13, 2022
Van Empel began Sunday’s fifth World Cup with an enormous lead within the standings, and had the prospect to match Katie Compton and Daphny van den Model as the one feminine riders to win 5 World Cups in a row.
Van Empel, who’s gained eight of her first 9 races thus far this season, was on everybody’s radar.
Van Anrooij performed it affected person and opened a five-second hole nearing the halfway level along with her race-winning assault on the ultimate lap, and it got here all the way down to who might carry energy via the string of technical corners and obstacles within the finale.
“It could have been good to win once more, my response was a bit too late. I hoped for the dash, and we got here very shut in the long run,” Van Empel stated. “Shirin was very quick within the final spherical, I’m pleased with second.”
Van Empel won’t have gained, however she simply retained her World Cup lead.
Timing the assault completely
Sunday’s race at Beekse Bergen was the primary time the World Cup was contested on the Dutch course. An analogous format was used for the 2013 Dutch nationwide championships, however with a mixture of grass, tight cornering, some sand and grippy sections, together with some man-made obstacles, the course offered a tightly wound backdrop for the fifth spherical of the 2022-23 World Cup.
As anticipated for the Netherlands, there was virtually no important elevation. Beneath cool temperatures, sunny skies, and little wind, the technical, quick, principally dry course offered a check after all and the flexibility to make brief accelerations.
Halfway via the six-lap race, Van Empel, and Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Puck Pieterse and Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado opened a small hole to the chasers.
Rising star Pieterse pushed laborious to open a spot, with Carmen Alvarado marking Van Empel’s wheel. There was a bunch of six nonetheless inside 10 seconds of one another with two laps to race.
The just lately topped U23 European champion saved pushing on the entrance in lap 4, with Van Empel holding again ever so barely. Carmen Alvarado crossed her entrance wheel on a run on a good right-hander and misplaced a number of positions, leaving Van Empel alone to chase down Pieterse. Clara Honsinger was hanging within the top-15 at a few minute and a half again.
Van Empel closed the hole to Pieterse to enter the closing two laps, with Van Anrooij, one of the best younger rider on the Tour de France Femmes, slotting into third, and Marianne Vos and Carmen Alvarado chasing in fourth and fifth at 15 seconds again.
Van Anrooij saved her greatest lap for her final, and powered clear on the bell to hold her slender hole all the way in which to the road for a breakout victory.
🏆 UCI World Cup Beekse Bergen 🇳🇱
🥇 🇳🇱 Shirin van Anrooij
🥈 🇳🇱 Fem van Empel
🥉 🇳🇱 Puck Pieterse4 🇳🇱 Alvarado
5 🇳🇱 Vos
6 🇭🇺 Vas
7 🇳🇱 Model
8 🇱🇺 Schreiber
9 🇳🇱 Van Alphen
10 🇳🇱 Betsema
➡️ Outcomes: https://t.co/XUHnaxQtJQ#CXWorldCup pic.twitter.com/ieXkBi0rFT
— Cyclocross24.com (@cyclocross24) November 13, 2022
