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February 16, 2025
X²O Trofee Oudenaarde – Koppenbergcross 2024 ME – Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
The X²O Badkamers Trophy (Dutch: X²O Badkamers Trofee) is a Belgian cyclo-cross racing series sponsored by X²O Badkamers (X²O Bathrooms) which previously was known as the DVV Trophy (2017–2019),
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February 16, 2025
X²O Trofee Oudenaarde – Koppenbergcross 2024 ME – Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
The X²O Badkamers Trophy (Dutch: X²O Badkamers Trofee) is a Belgian cyclo-cross racing series sponsored by X²O Badkamers (X²O Bathrooms) which previously was known as the DVV Trophy (2017–2019), BPost Bank Trophy (2012–2016) and until 2011–2012 as the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee. Many races are held in the province of Antwerp with others being held across Belgium. The way that the general classification was calculated was changed from a points system to using the riders’ finishing times of each race (like a road racing stage race) with time ‘bonuses’ also available at an intermediate ‘sprint’ at the end of the first lap with 15, 10 and 5 seconds being awarded. The maximum time a rider can lose in the general classification is 5 minutes, excluding the bonus seconds. When a rider does not finish or does not start, they are handed a 5-minute time loss, excluding bonus seconds.
Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Cibel Clementines) won a head-to-head battle against Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ridley Racing Team), the Belgian crossing the line at Brussels Universities Cyclocross eight seconds ahead of his Dutch adversary at the final X2O Trofee race of the season.
Lars van der Haar (Baloise Glowi) rolled across the line in Brussels 41 seconds later for third.
Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Cibel Clementines) finished 1:07 off the pace for fourth, having worked back through some riders after suffering a flat tyre earlier in the race.
The Belgian won the X2O Trofee series title for a fourth time on Sunday.
Series runner-up, Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP), suffered a heavy crash in the mud near the pits early in the race, taking a long time to remount his bike, and was not able to contest Iserbyt in the standings, finishing seventh in Brussels.
Vanthourenhout, the UCI World Cup winner, was the first to make a move at the front of the nine-lap race. Nieuwenhuis soon tagged along the duo held a 10-second lead over Van der Haar on the middle laps.
Vanthourenhout gained an edge through a series of tight turns on the last half of the final lap, but could not drop Nieuwenhuis. Then with a final acceleration on flat, power section before bumpy off-camber sections, he put in huge daylight between the pair and rode to victory.
“On the off-camber section I tried to go full gas and it was enough to win,” Vanthourenhout summarised at the finish.
Results :
 is a Belgian cyclo-cross racing series sponsored by X²O Badkamers (X²O Bathrooms) which previously was known as the DVV Trophy (2017–2019), BPost Bank Trophy (2012–2016) and until 2011–2012 as the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee. Many races are held in the province of Antwerp with others being held across Belgium. The way that the general classification was calculated was changed from a points system to using the riders' finishing times of each race (like a road racing stage race) with time 'bonuses' also available at an intermediate 'sprint' at the end of the first lap with 15, 10 and 5 seconds being awarded. The maximum time a rider can lose in the general classification is 5 minutes, excluding the bonus seconds. When a rider does not finish or does not start, they are handed a 5-minute time loss, excluding bonus seconds.
Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Cibel Clementines) won a head-to-head battle against Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ridley Racing Team), the Belgian crossing the line at Brussels Universities Cyclocross eight seconds ahead of his Dutch adversary at the final X2O Trofee race of the season.
Lars van der Haar (Baloise Glowi) rolled across the line in Brussels 41 seconds later for third.
Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Cibel Clementines) finished 1:07 off the pace for fourth, having worked back through some riders after suffering a flat tyre earlier in the race.
The Belgian won the X2O Trofee series title for a fourth time on Sunday.
Series runner-up, Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP), suffered a heavy crash in the mud near the pits early in the race, taking a long time to remount his bike, and was not able to contest Iserbyt in the standings, finishing seventh in Brussels.
Vanthourenhout, the UCI World Cup winner, was the first to make a move at the front of the nine-lap race. Nieuwenhuis soon tagged along the duo held a 10-second lead over Van der Haar on the middle laps.
Vanthourenhout gained an edge through a series of tight turns on the last half of the final lap, but could not drop Nieuwenhuis. Then with a final acceleration on flat, power section before bumpy off-camber sections, he put in huge daylight between the pair and rode to victory.
"On the off-camber section I tried to go full gas and it was enough to win," Vanthourenhout summarised at the finish.
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