LOENHOUT, Belgium—Today’s sixth round of the Bpost Bank Trofee in Loenhout, Belgium was a break out performance of sorts for the American Junior Men.
Continuing their streak of fine racing Spencer Petrov and Gage Hecht patrolled the front of the race. Petrov, having led the race at two laps to go, finished in second in a three-up sprint behind Thijs Wolsink of The Netherlands and ahead of Jari de Clercq of Belgium, the group coming in at 39:50.
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Hecht wound up in fifth, 14 seconds off the leaders with teammate Eric Brunner on his wheel in sixth. Denzel Stephenson made it into the top ten as well with an eighth place finish.
Rounding out the top 15 were Cameron Beard in 14th and Evan Clouse in 15th. Michael Owens was 32nd while Noah Barrow was 35th.
Be sure to read about the Men’s U23 race, the Elite Women’s event, as well as the Elite Men’s race at Azencross too.
2015 BPost Bank Azencross Junior Men's Full Results
| Pl | Name | Nationality | Age | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WOLSINK Thijs | NED | 17 | 39:50 |
| 2 | PETROV Spencer | USA | 17 | 39:50 |
| 3 | DE CLERCQ Jari | BEL | 17 | 39:50 |
| 4 | BAUTERS Reno | BEL | 17 | 39:51 |
| 5 | HECHT Gage | USA | 17 | 40:04 |
| 6 | BRUNNER Eric | USA | 17 | 40:08 |
| 7 | TIELEMANS Jente | BEL | 17 | 40:10 |
| 8 | STEPHENSON Denzel | USA | 16 | 40:38 |
| 9 | TULETT Daniel | GBR | 16 | 40:40 |
| 10 | VAN NOPPEN Antonie | NED | 17 | 40:40 |
| 11 | TURNER Ben | GBR | 16 | 40:41 |
| 12 | PAUWELS Tijl | BEL | 17 | 41:04 |
| 13 | MOBIS Maximilian | GER | 17 | 41:10 |
| 14 | BEARD Cameron | USA | 17 | 41:17 |
| 15 | CLOUSE Evan | USA | 16 | 41:23 |
| 16 | PEMEN Diederik | BEL | 17 | 41:28 |
| 17 | BODEN Jarne | BEL | 17 | 41:34 |
| 18 | LIESSENS Jarno | BEL | 17 | 41:37 |
| 19 | RUDOLPH Paul | GER | 17 | 41:38 |
| 20 | VAN GILS Maxim | BEL | 16 | 41:39 |
| 21 | SCHREIBER Steven | GER | 19 | 41:44 |
| 22 | POLDERVAART Mario | NED | 17 | 41:49 |
| 23 | BRAES Brent | BEL | 16 | 41:57 |
| 24 | PETTERSSON Ted | SWE | 17 | 42:09 |
| 25 | DEKKER David | NED | 17 | 42:09 |
| 26 | HOLLMANN Juri | GER | 16 | 42:11 |
| 27 | VAN STAEYEN Maarten | BEL | 17 | 42:15 |
| 28 | TIBACKX Lawrence | BEL | 19 | 42:39 |
| 29 | AALRUST Hakon | NOR | 17 | 42:49 |
| 30 | KONINGS Robbe | BEL | 16 | 43:12 |
| 31 | KOK Jack | SWE | 17 | 43:15 |
| 32 | OWENS Michael | USA | 17 | 43:25 |
| 33 | VAN ASSCHE Bert | BEL | 17 | 43:29 |
| 34 | VAN HOREN Noah | NED | 17 | 43:40 |
| 35 | BARROW Noah | USA | 17 | 43:57 |
| 36 | BROECKX Seppe | BEL | 16 | 44:06 |
| 37 | BRUYNINCLKX Jonas | BEL | 16 | 44:08 |
| 38 | VAN MERKERK Tom | NED | 16 | 44:29 |
| 39 | AGTERBERG Kyle | NED | 16 | 44:32 |
| 40 | VERDONCK Loeka | BEL | 16 | 44:47 |
| 41 | LEWIS Harry | GBR | 16 | 45:07 |
| 42 | SMITS Rune | BEL | 16 | 45:13 |
| 43 | OBERTEICHER Marco | GER | 16 | 45:29 |
| 44 | COOREMAN Guillermo | BEL | 16 | 45:43 |
| 45 | MEEUWS Martijn | NED | 16 | 45:46 |
| 46 | BINDELS James | LUX | 16 | 46:14 |
| 47 | VERDIJCK Lenn | BEL | 16 | 46:28 |
| 48 | BEKAERT Yentl | BEL | 16 | 46:30 |
| 49 | THONNON Bas | BEL | 16 | 46:33 |
