AFPDylan Groenewegen (archive photograph)
NOS Wielrennen•vandaag, 16:57
Dylan Groenewegen did not win the Veenendaal-Veenendaal one-day race for the sixth time in his profession. Groenewegen was surprisingly overwhelmed within the bunch dash by the Norwegian Tord Gudmestad, who took the victory.
Groenewegen completed third, as a result of the Belgian Simon Dehairs from the Alpecin-Deceuninck coaching group additionally stayed forward of him.
Document winner
Groenewegen has gained the previous two editions and was as soon as once more the favourite for victory this yr. With 5 victories in complete, the 30-year-old chief of Group Jayco AlUla can be the report winner in Veenendaal.
The race round Veenendaal, which was so acquainted to him, the place no different prime sprinters had been in the beginning, was an excellent alternative for Groenewegen to achieve some confidence. As a result of the Amsterdammer’s season isn’t but so profitable.
Though he began the yr with a victory within the Classica Comunitat Valenciana one-day race, he was unable to beat different dash toppers within the bigger races.
The thirty seventh version of the dash race differed little from final yr and took the riders previous the Grebbeberg and the Paardenveld 5 instances, two quick slopes of a number of hundred meters.
4 Dutchmen within the main group
The primary escape try was made after half an hour. It was the Swiss Simon Pellaud who positioned the primary assault of the day. The Tudor Professional Biking rider was quickly overtaken by 5 different riders, together with 4 Dutch.
Bart Lemmen, Axel van der Tuuk, Jan Willem van Schip and Max Kroonen joined Pellaud, alongside the Danish Niklas Larsen. The lead of this main group was a couple of minute and a half.
Rain showers
Identical to throughout Friday’s ladies’s race, the riders needed to cope with heavy rain showers. However whereas Riejanne Markus was in a position to make good use of this on Friday by pulling away and soloing to victory, the main group had a tough time within the last part.
With the final slope behind us, the lead over the peloton had shrunk to lower than ten seconds. Lemmen, Van der Tuuk, Van Schip and Kroonen had been nonetheless a part of the main group, however the Dutch foursome needed to watch because the Swiss Pellaud tried to take the initiative.
However Pellaud couldn’t stop a bunch dash. One and a half kilometers from the end line, the peloton had made up the deficit. Within the dash, Groenewegen was overwhelmed by Gudmestad from Norway and the Belgian Dehairs.
