Benjamin Thomas and Fabio Van Den Bossche win Gent Six Day with beautiful late assault
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Olympic Omnium champion Benjamin Thomas and bronze medalist Fabio Van den Bossche charged to the victory within the 66th version of the Gent Six Day on Sunday, launching a late assault to steal a lap in ‘t Kuipke.
Lindsay De Vylder and Robbe Ghys led the Six Day from the primary evening and headed into the ultimate Madison with a 44-point lead over Thomas and Van den Bossche.
Nonetheless, there have been two different groups on the identical lap: Jules Hesters and Aaron Gate, who have been 9 factors additional down in third and Madison World Champions Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt in fourth.
Whereas Hesters launched an assault to attempt to take a lap late within the last Madison, Thomas and Van den Bossche have been those who profited. They sat again and let De Vylder and Ghys do the chasing after which launched a devastating last blow when Hesters was reeled in.
“We have been the hunters this week. Jules (Hesters) rode a heroic workforce race and put quite a lot of strain on the leaders,” Thomas stated. “We took benefit of that. We knew we had a bullet and we had to make use of it on the proper second.”
The victory was a primary for Fabio Van den Bossche, who stated the workforce at all times stored some vitality in reserve till the ultimate race.
“Right now we tried to play out that Lindsay and Robbe as leaders needed to management three duos. We waited and regarded for the proper second. We succeeded,” Van den Bossche stated.
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“It is spectacular how the winners nonetheless acquired a lap on the finish. It was a really exhausting race, Ghys and De Vylder needed to shut every little thing,” Hesters stated.
“Thomas took the lap with Van den Bossche that we could not take. That was on the most troublesome second of the race. You could possibly see that Thomas nonetheless had some left and he made probably the most of it.”
De Vylder gave credit score to the profitable workforce for popping out sturdy on the final day.
“We have been very dominant this week,” De Vylder stated. “However the winners rode a incredible last day. Over the entire week we have been maybe the strongest pair, [but] they have been as we speak.”
Outcomes
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Rank
Workforce
Factors
1
Benjamin Thomas (Fra) / Fabio Van den Bossche (Bel)
338
2 (+1 lap)
Lindsay De Vylder (Bel) / Robbe Ghys (Bel)
370
3
Jules Hesters (Bel) / Aaron Gate (NZl)
317
4 (+2 laps)
Roger Kluge (Ger) / Theo Reinhardt (Ger)
134
5 (+15 laps)
Mark Stewart (GBr) / Philip Heijnen (Ned)
150
6 (+19 laps)
Jan-Willem van Schip (Ned) / Yanne Dorenbos (Ned)
169
7 (+33 laps)
Oscar Nilsson-Julien (Fra) / Valentin Tablion (Fra)
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