Start Lists: 2019 Telenet UCI Cyclocross World Cup Pont-Château, France

The penultimate round of the 2018/19 Telenet UCI Cyclocross World Cup takes place on Sunday in Pont-Château, which is located in northwest France near Nantes.

A World Cup race was last held in Pont-Château in 2011, where Marianne V0s (CCC – Liv) and Kevin Pauwels (Marlux – Bingoal) took home wins. Both will be racing again on Sunday in 2019 eight years later.

Read on for a look at the start lists and overall World Cup series standings through seven races.

Elite Women

Vos is the current World Cup overall leader. She heads to France looking for her fourth World Cup win of the season. Absent from the start list are Belgian champ Sanne Cant (IKO – Beobank) and Lucinda Brand (Team Sunweb), who took home her second-straight National Championship on Sunday against Vos and the rest of the star-studded Dutch field.

With Cant’s absence, if Vos finishes fourth or better, she locks up the World Cup overall before the finale at Hoogerheide.

North American Elite Women starters include Katie Compton (KFC Racing p/b Trek Knight), Kaitie Keough (Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld), Maghalie Rochette (CX Fever p/b Specialized), Rebecca Fahringer (Kona Maxxis Shimano), Clara Honsinger (Team S&M CX), Courtenay McFadden (Pivot Cycles/Maxxis p/b Stan’s/DNA Cycling), Katie Clouse (Alpha Bicycle – Groove Subaru Silverthorne), Corey Coogan Cisek (Amy D. Foundation) and Rebecca Gross (Zero D Racing).

Elite Women Standings: 2018/19 World Cup thru Seven Races

Name	Country	Points
Marianne Vos	NED	414
Sanne Cant	BEL	358
Annemarie Worst	NED	314
Kaitie Keough	USA	294
Loes Sels	BEL	289
Eva Lechner	ITA	277
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado	NED	267
Ellen Van Loy	BEL	266
Lucinda Brand	NED	265
Denise Betsema	NED	260

Elite Men

Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon – Circus) trails Toon Aerts (Telenet Fidea Lions) by 75 points in the World Cup overall entering Pont-Château, but his longshot shot at the overall series win will come to an end thanks to his absence from the World Cup start list.

Aerts and Wout van Aert (Cibel – Cebon Offroad Team) head up the rest of the start list, with Van Aert looking for a little revenge after Aerts’ win at Belgian Nationals on Sunday. Aerts currently leads the World Cup overall by 7 points over Van Aert.

The North American contingent includes Curtis White (Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld), Tyler Cloutier (TCCX), Max Judelson (Voler/Clif/HRS/Rock Lobster), Josh Bauer (Donkey Label) and Andrew Juliano (Grit World Racing p/b Voler).

Elite Men Standings: 2018/19 World Cup thru Seven Races

Name	Country	Points
Toon Aerts	BEL	475
Wout van Aert	BEL	468
Mathieu van der Poel	NED	400
Quinten Hermans	BEL	352
Corne van Kessel	NED	341
Laurens Sweeck	BEL	337
Michael Vanthourenhout	BEL	334
Lars van der Haar	NED	330
Daan Soete	BEL	316
Kevin Pauwels	BEL	289

Full Elite start lists are below.

The Elite Women’s race is at 7:30 a.m. EST and the Elite Men’s is at 9:00 a.m. A live stream is available in the U.S. through the NBC Gold broadcast package.

Featured image: Bart Hazen

Elite Women Start List: 2019 World Cup Pont-Château

Bib	Name	NAT	YOB	UCI Rank
1	SELS Loes	BEL	1985	6
2	VAN LOY Ellen	BEL	1980	13
3	VERDONSCHOT Laura	BEL	1996	22
4	VERHESTRAETEN Karen	BEL	1991	77
5	*BELLAERT Axelle	BEL	1997	88
6	*TRUYEN Marthe	BEL	1999	95
7	*PEETERS Jinse	BEL	1999	150
8	COMPTON Katherine	USA	1978	11
9	KEOUGH Kaitlin	USA	1992	4
10	FAHRINGER Rebecca	USA	1989	35
11	*HONSINGER Clara	USA	1997	36
12	MCFADDEN Courtenay	USA	1985	47
13	*CLOUSE Katie	USA	2001	51
14	WORST Annemarie	NED	1995	3
15	VOS Marianne	NED	1987	2
16	*ALVARADO Ceylin Del Carmen	NED	1998	8
17	BETSEMA Denise	NED	1993	9
18	KAPTHEIJNS Maud	NED	1994	19
19	*NAGENGAST Fleur	NED	1998	27
20	*VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge	NED	1999	28
21	*BAKKER Manon	NED	1999	34
22	DE BOER Sophie	NED	1990	41
23	*KASTELIJN Yara	NED	1997	45
24	MANI Caroline	FRA	1987	25
25	PETIT Marlene	FRA	1991	29
26	*RIBEROLLE Marion Norbert	FRA	1999	38
27	MOREL PETITGIRARD Marlene	FRA	1988	53
28	*FOUQUENET Amandine	FRA	2001	90
29	GRIMAULT Anais	FRA	1995	100
30	*CURINIER Lea	FRA	2001	101
31	DELHAYE Pauline	FRA	1989	102
32	*DEVAUX Marceline	FRA	1999	128
33	*MUZIC Evita	FRA	1999	174
S 34	*DURAFFOURG Lauriane	FRA	2002	137
35	BRAMMEIER Nikki	GBR	1986	12
36	ROCHETTE Maghalie	CAN	1993	14
37	NUNO PALACIO Aida	ESP	1983	16
38	GONZALEZ BLANCO Lucia	ESP	1990	26
39	*IBARROLA ALBIZUA Luisa	ESP	2000	82
40	ODRIOZOLA MUGICA Olatz	ESP	1983	87
41	*TRABAZO BRAGADO Irene	ESP	1998	103
42	*DIAZ LOPEZ Paula	ESP	1997	108
43	TREVILLA SAMPERIO Sandra	ESP	1992	117
44	*PARAJON FUENTES Maria	ESP	2002	215
45	CARRASCOSA GARCIA Monica	ESP	1972
46	LECHNER Eva	ITA	1985	10
47	ARZUFFI Alice Maria	ITA	1994	7
49	*CZECZINKAROVA Jana	CZE	1997	39
50	MAJERUS Christine	LUX	1987	17
51	BRANDAU Elisabeth	GER	1985	24
52	*GILLESPIE Lara	IRL	2001	91
53	*O'DONNELL Lucy	IRL	2002	208
54	HEIGL Nadja	AUT	1996	30
55	COOGAN CISEK Corey	USA	1977	179
56	GROSS Rebecca	USA	1980	223

Elite Men Start List: 2019 World Cup Pont-Château

Bib	Name	NAT	YOB	UCI Rank’
1	VAN AERT Wout	BEL	1994	2
2	AERTS Toon	BEL	1993	3
3	VANTHOURENHOUT Michael	BEL	1993	4
4	SWEECK Laurens	BEL	1993	5
5	HERMANS Quinten	BEL	1995	6
6	MERLIER Tim	BEL	1992	10
7	SOETE Daan	BEL	1994	13
8	PAUWELS Kevin	BEL	1984	15
9	VERMEERSCH Gianni	BEL	1992	16
10	AERTS Thijs	BEL	1996	19
11	MEEUSEN Tom	BEL	1988	21
12	AERNOUTS Jim	BEL	1989	23
13	CLEPPE Nicolas	BEL	1995	27
14	BAESTAENS Vincent	BEL	1989	28
15	SWEECK Diether	BEL	1993	31
16	ADAMS Jens	BEL	1992	34
17	MERLIER Braam	BEL	1994	40
18	VANTHOURENHOUT Dieter	BEL	1985	42
19	VAN DER HAAR Lars	NED	1991	7
20	VAN KESSEL Corne	NED	1991	8
21	VAN DER POEL David	NED	1992	9
22	NIEUWENHUIS Joris	NED	1996	17
23	WOUTERS Sieben	NED	1996	45
24	GODRIE Stan	NED	1993	48
25	VAN DER MEER Gosse	NED	1995	54
S 26	BAKX Kelvin	NED	1996	299
27	CHAINEL Steve	FRA	1983	20
28	BOULO Matthieu	FRA	1989	30
29	CANAL Fabien	FRA	1989	32
30	MOUREY Francis	FRA	1980	38
31	MENUT David	FRA	1992	44
32	GRAS Yan	FRA	1996	59
33	DUBAU Joshua	FRA	1996	77
34	DUBAU Lucas	FRA	1996	92
S 35	PERIOU Tony	FRA	1995	209
S 36	TROPARDY Arthur	FRA	1991	300
37	BOROS Michael	CZE	1992	22
38	NESVADBA Jan	CZE	1991	35
39	BERTOLINI Gioele	ITA	1995	26
40	COMINELLI Cristian	ITA	1988	103
41	ORTS LLORET Felipe	ESP	1995	14
42	ESTEBAN AGUERO Ismael	ESP	1983	43
43	SUAREZ FERNANDEZ Kevin	ESP	1994	50
44	RUIZ DE LARRINAGA IBANEZ Javier	ESP	1979	74
45	ANIA GONZALEZ Daniel	ESP	1987	301
46	ARREGUI DOMINGUEZ Asier	ESP	1978	381
47	DIEZ ARRIOLA Jose Antonio	ESP	1982
48	WHITE Curtis	USA	1995	25
49	CLOUTIER Tyler	USA	1989	147
50	JUDELSON Max	USA	1987	224
51	BAUER Josh	USA	1990
52	JUILIANO Andrew	USA	1988
53	MEISEN Marcel	GER	1989	12
54	MULLER Manuel	GER	1995	141
55	GLAJZA Ondrej	SVK	1994	49
56	MILLBURN Garry	AUS	1987	83
57	AITKEN Christopher	AUS	1994	194
58	DAVIS Niall	IRL	1985	184
59	HEIGL Philipp	AUT	1993	243