Toon Aerts claimed a decent dash with Piotr Havik within the elite males’s race on the Gravel Fondo Limburg, whereas Tessa Neefjes gained the elite girls’s title on the UCI Gravel World Sequence.
Neefjes, who has gained a number of rounds of the sequence the previous two seasons, carved out a niche of simply over two minutes on Irina Lützelschwab whereas Wendy Oosterwoud came to visit the road practically a minute-and-a-half later to take third within the 123km race with round 1,300m of elevation acquire. Femke de Vries, who simply two weeks earlier than had been racing the roads of Limburg within the Amstel Gold Race, got here fourth whereas it was fifth for Marjet Groen.
Jasper Ockeloen and Johnny Hoogerland got here in collectively to take fourth and fifth, then there was a gaggle of 5 led over the road – within the metropolis that additionally supplies the end line for the Amstel Gold Race – by newly retired highway skilled Greg Van Avermaet.
“It wasn’t my first race round Valkenburg but it surely was the primary one with a gravel bike,” stated Van Avermaet in an Instagram publish. “Managed to safe a strong sixth place regardless of the difficult wind. I suppose this race put some further pressure on the legs for the following ones.”
Outcomes
| Place | Rider | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toon Aerts | 2:57:10 |
| 2 | Piotr Havik | 0:00:01 |
| 3 | Adne Koster | 0:00:21 |
| 4 | Jasper Ockeloen | 0:02:45 |
| 5 | Johnny Hoogerland | 0:02:46 |
| Place | Rider | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tessa Neefjes | 3:21:48 |
| 2 | Irina Lützelschwab | 0:02:02 |
| 3 | Wendy Oosterwoud | 0:03:26 |
| 4 | Femke de Vries | 0:04:13 |
| 5 | Market Groen | 0:04:47 |
