Mads Würtz Schmidt and Geerike Schreurs Triumph at Thrilling Turnhout Gravel Race in Belgium

Mads Würtz Schmidt (PAS Racing) and Geerike Schreurs (SD Worx-Protime) each claimed victories in tight battles to the road at Turnhout Gravel, one in all two Belgian stops for the UCI Gravel International Sequence this season.

Schruers prevailed within the 144km elite ladies’s race, in spite of no longer having the very best of runs with flat tyres, via taking away a good dash with two fellow Dutch riders Wendy Oosterwoud (PAS Racing), who got here 2nd, and Teuntje Bekhuis (UNO-X Mobility) in 3rd. Nice Britain’s Sophie Wright (Ribble Outlier) came around the road an extra two seconds again to take fourth from some of the crew of 14 riders who had come towards the road in a number. 

“I had several flat tires and had to chase back multiple times. At one point, I rode over 35 kilometers on a flat tyre,” mentioned Schreurs on an Instagram put up. “But I kept pushing, and in the final 10 kilometers, I attacked on the technical singletrack.

“I knew positioning can be key, so I went all-in with 500 meters to move and completed it off within the dash,” mentioned the Girls’s WorldTour rider, who previous this month raced at the street with SD-Worx Protime at Nokere Koerse and Ixina GP Oetingen.

Würtz Schmidt, who till closing 12 months raced at the street with Israel-Premier Tech, outsprinted his PAS Racing teammate Magnus Bak Klaris for the victory within the elite males’s catetory. Bak Klaris had bridged to Würtz Schmidt and Mathijs Loman (Swatt Membership) after the pair were given away in the second one of the 2 72km laps, the duo sooner or later leaving Loman in 3rd. 

Turnhout Gravel is the primary of 2 Belgian stops for the UCI Gravel International Sequence, with Houffa Gravel happening August 30.

The UCI Gravel International Sequence, which additionally acts as qualifying for the UCI Gravel International Championships, continues with the 114 Gravel Race in Spain on Saturday, March 29. 5 rounds of the worldwide sequence will then play out in April – Wörthersee Gravel Race in Austria on April 6, Monaco Gravel Race on April 20, Italy’s Giro Sardegna Gravel on April 25, Highlands Gravel Vintage in america on April 26 after which Paris to Ancaster in Canada on April 27.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyElite males’s most sensible 5PositionRiderTime1Mads Würtz Schmidt (PAS Racing)3:35:242Magnus Bak Klaris (PAS Racing)+043Mathijs Loman (Swatt Membership)+364Lukas Malezsewski+1:455Mauro Verwilt (Tarteletto-Isorex)+1:57Swipe to scroll horizontallyElite Girls’s most sensible 5PositionRiderTime1Geerike Schreurs (SD Worx-Protime)4:12:092Wendy Oosterwoud (PAS Racing)Row 1 – Mobile 2 3Teuntje Bekhuis (UNO-X Mobility)Row 2 – Mobile 2 4Sophie Wright (Ribble Outlier)+025Clara Lundmark+14