20-year-old Célia Gery (FDJ United-SUEZ) surprised the favourites to take her first professional victory at De Brabantse Pijl Women 2026, launching an early sprint before narrowly pipping Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) to the line in Overijse on Friday.
A two-rider break of Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek) and Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) led until the final 1.4km after the former had been part of two early breakaways and the latter had bridged across in the final 30km.
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How it unfolded
Racing kicked off early on Friday morning at the women’s Brabantse Pijl from Lennik, with 125km and three laps of a punchy finishing circuit separating the field from the line in Overijse.
A 10-rider breakaway formed after around 25km of racing, with Alexandra Volstad (EF Education-Oatly), Nicole Steigenga (AG Insurance-Soudal), Carina Schrempf(Fenix-Premier Tech, Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek), Appleton Talia Appleton, Ella Wyllie (both Liv AlUla Jayco), Daniela Hezinová (Picnic PostNL), Steffi Häberlin (SD Worx-Protime), Silvia Persico (UAE Team ADQ) and Anneke Dijkstra (VolkerWessels) getting…
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