Sunday June 2, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Lachlan Morton wrote Unbound Gravel. The Australian – who was already third within the gravel race final yr – rode for fairly a while along with Chad Haga on the head of the gravel race, who he was too quick within the dash after 327 kilometers. The Dane Tobias Kongstad completed third, simply forward of Piotr Havik.
The Excessive Mass among the many gravel gamers, that’s how we are able to describe Unbound Gravel. This gravel tour of a minimum of 200 miles, or 327 kilometers, was on this system on Saturday. The riders have been introduced with a minimum of 299 kilometers of unpaved roads alongside the way in which. A tricky race, the place males like Matej Mohoric, Dutchmen like Joris Nieuwenhuis, Niki Terpstra, Laurens ten Dam and Belgians like Greg Van Avermaet and Jan Bakelants have been initially.
Unhealthy luck for robust Zonneveld
World champion Mohoric made his debut in Unbound Gravel, however clearly didn’t endure from stage fright. The Slovenian from Bahrain Victorious determined to go forcing at an early stage, however Mohoric suffered unhealthy luck alongside the way in which and was nowhere to be seen within the last.
Three riders who managed to differentiate themselves within the (pre)last have been Thijs Zonneveld, Lachlan Morton and Chad Haga. This trio went on an journey and rapidly managed to realize a pleasant lead over the primary chasing group, together with Van Avermaet, Nieuwenhuis and Ockeloen. Nonetheless, Zonneveld needed to take care of unhealthy luck in a promising place and noticed a superb rating go up in smoke.
Battle
Morton and Haga have been spared from unhealthy luck, they stored getting additional forward of the pursuers and so we had a battle for the victory. After greater than 9 hours of racing, Morton turned out to be the quickest in a sprint-à-deux. A couple of minutes later it was the Dane Tobias Kongstad who managed to take the bronze medal, by beating Piotr Havik and Mattia de Marchi in a dash.
Shortly afterwards, Greg van Avermaet managed to realize seventh place. Defending champion Keegan Swenson solely completed fourteenth. Dutch clay champion Lars Loohuis completed twentieth. Unfortunate Zonneveld in the end didn’t get additional than thirty first place. And Mohoric? He even determined to use the brakes after a irritating race, similar to his Bahrain Victorious teammates Łukasz Wiśniowski and Matevz Govekar.
Geerike Schreurs second after true thriller
For the ladies we additionally had a dash for victory, however no fewer than 9 riders have been nonetheless eligible for everlasting gravel glory. The victory in the end went to Rosa Klöser. The 27-year-old German proved to be too quick for the Dutch Geerike Schreurs after a nail-biting last and dash. Paige Onweller raced to 3rd place.
Within the largest dash end in race historical past and quickest ladies’s time, Rosa Klöser takes the victory. Rosa suffered a flat, crashed late, closed a 2 min hole solo. Geerike Schreurs finishes second in her debut. Paige Onweller with third simply 12 weeks after ankle surgical procedure. EPIC! pic.twitter.com/v6szUxbpEX
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Consequence Unbound Gravel 2024 (327 kilometers)
Lachlan Morton in 9u11m47s
Chad Haga z.t.
Tobias Kongstad up 3m36s
4. Piotr Havik op 3m36s
5. Mattia De Marchi op 3m41s
6. Simon Nordahl Svensen op 4m41s
7. Greg Van Avermaet at 4m47s
8. Payson McElveen op 4m47s
9. Sebastian Schönberger op 4m47s
10. Dylan Johnson op 4m47s
14. Keegan Swenson op 8m49s
20. Lars Loohuis at 13m21s
28. Jan Bakelants op 19m54s
31. Thijs Zonneveld in 19m58s
34. Jasper Ockeloen op 23m33s
38. Joris Nieuwenhuis at 33m18s
42. Thomas Dekker at 35m40s
50. Laurens ten Dam op 37m35s
51. Niki Terpstra at 37m46s
DNF: Matej Mohoric
