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Van der Poel and Mohoric on the beginning line.
The strongest squad right here is undoubtedly the house nation, Belgium, who carry the inaugural world champ from 2021, Gianni Vermeersch, together with a wealth of WorldTour expertise: Tim Merlier, Tiesj Benoot, Jaspery Stuyven, Quinten Hermans, Florian Vermeersch, In addition they have cyclo-cross stalwarts Eli Iserbyt, Laurens Sweeck, and Michael Vanthourenhout, and, to high all of it off, a sure Greg Van Avermaet – former Classics star who has taken up gravel in retirement.
Mohoric, who received in fashion final 12 months however was compelled to overlook the latest Street Worlds to to a hand damage sustained in a gravel journey. Mohoric even tried correct US gravel earlier this 12 months at Unbound, however that is UCI gravel and, particularly with a comparatively tame course, is nicely suited to a highway racing engine.
Van der Poel has loads of teammates however not on fairly the identical degree because the Dutch mafia we noticed within the ladies’s race. Fellow cyclo-cross race Joris Nieuwenhuis is amongst these by his facet.
Right here is Van der Poel in the beginning in Halle simply now.
The motion will get underway at 12pm native time, so simply across the nook.
After the ladies’s race served up a battle between Marianne Vos and Lotte Kopecky, what does the lads’s gravel world championship have in retailer? 2023 champion Matej Mohoric (Slovenia) is on the beginning record, as is Classics star and former highway race world champ Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands).
Welcome to Cyclingnews’ reside protection of the elite males’s race on the UCI Gravel World Championships.