Dylan Groenewegen (Unibet Rose Rockets) broke the hearts of the late breakaway group at the GP Jean-Pierre Monseré, sweeping past the seven-man group in the dying metres of the 202.5km race to take his third win of 2026.
The Dutchman’s team had worked hard to bring back the break, which went clear first with two riders at 39km to go and then with five more bridging across 17km later.
The break battled on almost all the way to the line, even launching the closing sprint in Roeselare, with Simon Dehairs (Alpecin-Premier Tech) looking to hold off Kamil Małecki (Pinarello-Q36.5) in the dash for the line.
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However, the peloton finally made the catch as the sprint was launched, swamping the breakaway survivors. Only Groenewegen could outpace them in the final burst to the line, though, beating Dehairs and Małecki to the victory.
At that point, Małecki and Sente Sentjens (Alpecin-Premier Tech) managed to break free of the peloton, pushing on as the sprinter’s teams continued to control the race.
At 19km to go, the group of Dehairs, Zak Eržen (Bahrain Victorious), Stan Van Tricht (Soudal-QuickStep), Pascal Ackermann, Dries De Bondt (Jayco-AlUla) made it across to leave seven out front.
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