Fem Van Empel retained her title on the 2024 UCI Cyclocross World Championships with a close to excellent and dominant show after driving away from her rivals within the opening laps.
The Dutch rider confirmed used her energy and bike expertise to open a niche on the primary lap earlier than progressively extending her profitable margin to over a minute.
Behind former world cyclo-cross champion Lucinda Model used her expertise to take second after distancing fellow Dutch girl Puck Pieterse over the last two laps. Pieterse had appeared most probably to problem Van Empel however pale on the penultimate lap and was dissatisfied to be handed by Model.
Van Empel was in management all through the race, lapping the quickest every time to assert a second elite world cyclocross crown on the age of simply 21.
As anticipated, Dutch riders dominated the rostrum positions with Model taking a seventh world cyclocross podium in second place at 1:20.
Pieterse is focusing on the Olympics mountain bike occasion this summer season however lacked the power of her rivals and completed third at 1:54.
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