The young Belgian full of mud, has been touted as a future star ever since his fifth place finish as a neo-pro at the 2015 Tour of Flanders, finally has nailed his first professional win, and a well deserved victory.
At the end of 184 thrilling kilometres. Sectors 7 and 8, from kilometres 110 to 140, were billed as a crucial phase of the race, and so it proved.
The race was, however, already in pieces after a hectic start to proceedings saw the peloton split in two – with just 70 riders left out front – as early as the second sector.
Things settled down into something resembling a familiar pattern as a 10-rider breakaway went clear from that front peloton but by the end of sector 7 – 9.5km in length – they were brought back and the race was on.
Top Ten Results
1, Tiesj Benoot (Belgium) Lotto Soudal 5:03:33,
2, Romain Bardet (France) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:39,
3, Wout Van Aert (Belgium) Veranda's Willems Crelan 0:00:58, 4, Alejandro Valverde (Spain) Movistar Team 0:01:25, 5, Giovanni Visconti (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:27, 6, Robert Power (Australia) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:29, 7, Zdenek Stybar (Czech) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:42, 8, Peter Sagan (Slovekia) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:08,
9, Pieter Serry (Belgium) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:11, 10, Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
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