Pim Ronhaar (Baloise Trek Lions) rode solo during the dust for the elite males’s victory at Trek CX Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin on Friday afternoon. His Dutch compatriot and teammate David Haverdings trailed 1:44 for 2d position. Former US elite males’s nationwide champion Eric Brunner (WTB Pivot) was once 3rd, on the subject of any other minute again.
A former U23 international champion in 2021, Ronhaar scored the second one UCI C2 win of his profession, and the primary win on US soil for the 22-year-old.
It was once the tenth version for the Trek CX Cup, now a leadup of the outlet spherical of the International Cup on Sunday. The overall race of the day on Friday noticed a box of 43 riders tackle a muddy direction that was once battered by way of 13 races and two coaching periods that happened previous.
Ronhaar introduced to the entrance of the race immediately at the early corners of the direction. Brunner and Haverdings gave chase and had been quickly 25 seconds again after the primary lap, then 45 seconds again after any other move within the relentless rain.
Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) was once one of the vital few riders to move faster on the second one lap and he stuck as much as Caleb Swartz (ENVE Composites-Business 9) as the 2 labored in combination in fourth and 5th position, respectively,, with 1:08 to make up. Tyler Clark (Hockley Valley Lodge Armada) had them in his attractions, driving in lone 6th position.
By way of the 3rd of 7 laps, Ronhaar was once pounding during the puddles and gaining time, extending his result in 1:08 on Haverdings, now in 2d position, and 1:18 on Brunner in 3rd. Clark, Swartz and White labored as a trio within the chase.
Throughout the second one part of the race the dust started to win the warfare of momentum, giving Ronhaar a possibility for a parade lap at the ultimate move. Harverdings was once in a position to distance himself at the 6th lap for a journey in solo 2d position, whilst Brunner by no means let the chasers snatch his again wheel. White received time on Swartz and Clark at the penultimate lap to transport away into fourth.
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