Dylan Groenewegen took his second win of the season for Unibet Rose Rockets at the Bredene Koksijde Classic, powering to the line on Friday with an impressive sprint.
As the race rounded the final key corner with 300 metres remaining, defending champion Edward Theuns (Lidl-Trek) was among those forced to launch early, after Unibet Rose Rockets had helped bring back the remnants of the breakaway in the final 2km.
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Racing kicked off with a three-man breakaway getting up the road, but it wasn’t until the hill zone and laps of the Baneberg, Monteberg and Kemmelberg – which will feature in the renamed Gent-Wevelgem in a couple of weeks – were finished that the threatening move would get away.
It was made up of Gil Gelders (Soudal-QuickStep), Cedric Beullens (Lotto Intermarché), Henrik Pedersen (Uno-X Mobility), Rayan Boulahoite (TotalEnergies), Michiel Coppens (BEAT CC p/b Saxo) and Jelle Vermoote (Tarteletto-Isorex) and formed with 68km to go.
Low winds then meant the typically explosive De Moeren section of the race was more about surviving the nerves than it was trying to survive echelons – which did form briefly, but the wind was never strong enough – so the sprint teams soon started to come to…
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