Senne Hulsmans of Staff Belgium Pierre Gautherat of Staff France and Tibor Del Grosso of Staff Netherlands through the under-23 highway race(Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The leaders on the pavé through the under-23 highway race(Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Huub Artz of Staff Netherlands and Leandre Lozouet of Staff France within the under-23 highway race(Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Huub Artz gave the Netherlands their fourth gold medal of the 2024 UEC Street European Championships within the U23 males’s highway race, outsprinting Niklas Behrens (Germany) on the finish of the 162km race in Hasselt. Frenchman Léandre Lozouet rounded out the rostrum to take the bronze medal 10 seconds later.
Artz, Behrens and Lozouet had been away within the successful attacking transfer with over 40km to go, the trio going clear forward of the day’s remaining climbs of the Kolmontberg and Zammelenberg.
Scattered chase teams behind checked out one level to be dragging again the 30-second hole the leaders loved over the ultimate climb, however there wasn’t sufficient energy or co-ordination behind to completely eat into the lead on the closing native laps.
14km from the road, because the riders handed by means of the end line for the penultimate time, simply 20 seconds separated the leaders from the chase of Mats Wenzel (Luxembourg) and Fabian Weiss (Switzerland).
Nevertheless, that was as shut as these behind would get to the entrance of the race, leaving the three up entrance to resolve the medal positions. Inside the ultimate 5km, Lozouet was compelled to let go of gold and silver as Behrens attacked to depart him behind.
Artz caught with the German, nonetheless, and had sufficient within the dash to simply edge out the 20-year-old within the ending dash.
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