National Championships 2018 – Netherlands – [Road Race – FULL RACE]

July 01, 2018

National Championships 2018 – Netherlands – Hoogerheide – Hoogerheide : 221,6 km

The Dutch National Road Race Championships take place annually, on the weekend prior to the start of the Tour de France. First held in 1888, today it is organized by the Top Sports Group, commissioned by the KNWU.

Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon-Circus) continued to demonstrate his considerable talents by taking out an amazing victory in the Dutch road race championships on familiar turf in Hoogerheide. In January, he won the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup here, today, he claimed his first elite road title.

Despite having been in a late breakaway, Van der Poel still had the power to out-pace Danny van Poppel (LottoNl-Jumbo) and Ramon Sinkeldam (Groupama-FDJ).

The cyclo-cross star spent the latter part of the race in a breakaway with Van Poppel, Dennis van Winden (Israel Cycling Academy) and Jan van Schip (Roompot), but their move was reeled in on the final lap.

A large group came together for the bunch sprint, and Van der Poel seemed impossibly positioned. As Sinkeldam opened up the sprint, the Corendon rider accelerated sharply to his left, having to reach out and push Sinkeldam from closing him into the barriers before hitting the gas fully and sprinting to a clear victory.

Van Poppel found another wind to pass Sinkeldam to take second a bike length behind Van der Poel.

Results :

1 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Corendon-Circus 5:21:42
2 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
3 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Groupama-FDJ
4 Timo Roosen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
5 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
6 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
7 Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
8 Bas van der Kooij (Ned) Alecto Cyclingteam
9 Dennis van Winden (Ned) Israel Cycling Academy
10 Piotr Havik (Ned) Beat Cycling Club
11 Sven van Luijk (Ned) Monkey Town
12 Floris Gerts (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
13 Jan Willem van Schip (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
14 Jasper Bovenhuis (Ned) Vlasman CT 0:00:05
15 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Lotto Soudal 0:00:09
16 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
17 Jos van Emden (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:17
18 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Wanty-Groupe Gobert 0:00:19
19 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky 0:00:22
20 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:28
21 Tim Kerkhof (Ned) Destil-Parkhotel Valkenburg
22 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:37
23 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Tarteletto-Isorex
24 Maarten de Jonge (Ned) Monkey Town
25 Tom Vermeer (Ned) Team Differdange Losch
26 Brian van Goethem (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:00:40
27 Wim Kleiman (Ned) Monkey Town 0:00:43
28 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:56
29 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:59
30 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:04
31 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
32 Thomas Leezer (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
33 Martijn Budding (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:01:20
34 Peter Schulting (Ned) Monkey Town
35 Cees Bol (Ned) SEG Racing Academy 0:01:48
36 Sjoerd van Ginneken (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
37 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:01
38 Rick Ottema (Ned) Alecto Cyclingteam 0:03:07
39 Stef Krul (Ned) Metec-TKH p/b Mantel
40 Jasper de Laat (Ned) Metec-TKH p/b Mantel 0:04:50
41 Oscar Riesebeek (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:04:54
42 Nick van der Lijke (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
43 Robbert de Greef (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
44 Bram Tankink (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
45 Lars Boom (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
46 Corne van Kessel (Ned) Telenet Fidea Lions
47 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
48 Koen Bouwmam (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
49 Rick van Breda (Ned) Monkey Town
50 Huub Duijn (Ned) Veranda’s Willems Crelan 0:04:57
51 Lex Nederlof (Ned) NEX CCN 0:05:24
52 Lars van der Haar (Ned) Telenet Fidea Lions
53 Jarno Gmelich Meijling (Ned) Metec-TKH p/b Mantel
54 Ivar Slik (Ned) Monkey Town
55 Folkert Oostra (Ned) Alecto Cyclingteam
56 Peter Koning (Ned) Aqua Blue Sport
57 Dion Beukeboom (Ned) Vlasman CT
58 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) Team Sunweb
59 David van der Poel (Ned) Corendon-Circus
60 Coen Vermeltfoort (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij
61 Tim Ariesen (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij 0:05:33
62 Jeroen Meijers (Ned) Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij