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SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium—As the season winds to a close, the final Bpost Bank Trofee race was held yesterday. Waaslandcross in Sint-Niklaas was a mostly Belgian affair as riders hoped to round out their season’s with some solid results.

In the Junior Men’s race it was World Champion Jens Dekker of The Netherlands against a field of Belgians. Dekker was able to handily take the win, besting Florian Vermeersch by 1:19 and Reno Bauters, who took third and stood another 5 seconds in arrears after the finish.

For the U23 Men, Daan Soete got some Worlds revenge and took the win ahead of countrymen Berne Vankiersbilk and Nicolas Cleppe, who sprinted for the second place spot with Cleppe having to settle for third. World Champion Eli Iserbyt finished sixth. Scott Smith of the United States was 25th.

It was the Elite Women’s World Champion on the front at Waaslandcross, easily taking the victory ahead of British National Champion Nikki Harris and Sanne Cant. Harris’ countrywoman Helen Wyman was 5th while Britlee Bowman and Corey Coogan Cisek came in 17th and 23rd, respectively for the Americans.

And in the Elite Men’s contest, perennial fast starter Laurens Sweeck held on for the win ahead of the reigning World Champion Wout van Aert and now elder statesman Sven Nys. For the Americans, Stephen Hyde finished 17th while Canadian Mark McConnell was 31st.

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2016 Bpost Bank Trofee Waaslandcross Elite Men's Results

PlNameNationalityAgeResult
1Laurens SWEECKBEL2358:54
2Wout VAN AERTBEL2259:14
3Sven NYSBEL4059:17
4Tom MEEUSENBEL2859:37
5Toon AERTSBEL231:00:05
6Rob PEETERSBEL311:00:11
7Tim MERLIERBEL241:00:12
8Lars VAN DER HAARNED251:00:20
9Diether SWEECKBEL231:00:35
10Kevin PAUWELSBEL321:00:54
11Corne VAN KESSELNED251:01:09
12Jim AERNOUTSBEL271:01:12
13Vincent BAESTAENSBEL271:01:18
14Joeri ADAMSBEL271:01:22
15Michael VANTHOURENHOUTBEL231:01:34
16Gianni VERMEERSCHBEL241:01:35
17Stephen HYDEUSA291:01:40
18Dieter VANTHOURENHOUTBEL311:01:45
19Michael BOROSCZE241:01:50
20Twan VAN DEN BRANDNED271:02:53
21Niels WUBBENNED281:03:00
22Mathieu VAN DER POELNED211:03:07
23Javier RUIZ DE LARRINAGA IBANEZESP371:03:08
24Philipp WALSLEBENGER291:03:19
25Kenneth VAN COMPERNOLLEBEL281:03:33
26Sven VANTHOURENHOUTBEL351:03:33
27Kevin CANTBEL28 
28Dave DE CLEYNBEL28 
29Antonin MARECAILLEFRA24 
30Quincy VENSBEL30 
31Mark MCCONNELLCAN28
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