Today challenge on Loenhout's course in the Exact Cross: course with many artificial sections and lots of mud. But the protagonists do not change.
Again today Mathieu Van Der Poel was super on the ball and put Pidcock and Van Aert to the whip, often forced to chase. Tom Pidcock's race was very nice, and even today he managed to keep up with the 2 purebred horses. Everything was played in the last lap, as usual with a heart-pounding pace, in which everyone wanted to take the lead. Van der Poel didn't want to get to the sprint and with his explosiveness in the technical sections it seemed sufficient to win but, in the muddy section, he missed the trajectory risking a crash and Van Aert and Pidcock returned.
It's the final sprint with Van Aert narrowly winning over Van der Poel and Pidcock.

MEN'S ELITE RANKING
1 | ![]() | JUMBO VISMA | 59:40 |
2 | ![]() | ALPECIN - DECEUNINCK | 0:01 |
3 | ![]() | INEOS GRENADIERS | " |
4 | ![]() | TRINITY RACING CROSS | 1:08 |
5 | ![]() | 1:36 | |
6 | ![]() | HOPE FACTORY RACING | 1:48 |
7 | ![]() | BALOISE TREK LIONS | 1:51 |
8 | ![]() | PAUWELS SAUZEN - BINGOAL | 1:54 |
9 | ![]() | CRELAN - FRISTADS | 2:13 |
10 | ![]() | ALPECIN - DECEUNINCK | 2:20 |
Among the women, the Dutch Shirin Van Anrooij wins again ahead of the very young Marie Schreiber and Manon Bakker. First of the Italians, Sara Casasola (17th) of Selle Italia Guerciotti.


ELITE WOMEN RANKING
1 | ![]() | BALOISE TREK LIONS | 49:50 |
2 | ![]() | TORMANS CYCLO CROSS TEAM | 0:59 |
3 | ![]() | CRELAN - FRISTADS | 1:29 |
4 | ![]() | 1:43 | |
5 | ![]() | 1:48 | |
6 | ![]() | PAUWELS SAUZEN - BINGOAL | " |
7 | ![]() | BRILON RACING TEAM MB | " |
8 | ![]() | 777 | 2:32 |
9 | ![]() | 2:37 | |
10 | ![]() | 2:48 |
