Alpecin-Deceuninck have introduced the cyclocross calendar of Mathieu van der Poel with the reigning Global Champion taking over 13 races this season.
The Dutchman will get started his cyclocross season with Precise Pass in Mol on December 22 and compete frequently over the next six weeks earlier than concluding his marketing campaign on the UCI Cyclocross Global Championships in Tabor on February 4.
The agenda is extensively very similar to his cyclocross campaigns within the fresh 2020-21 and 2022-23 seasons wherein he competed in 14 and 15 races, respectively. He’s, on the other hand, beginning his season at a later date than both – ultimate yr he were given underway on November 27.
Final season, he received six of his 14 races earlier than incomes with any other global identify after a memorable duel towards rival Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) in Hoogerheide.
This season, he’s going to tackle six rounds of the UCI Global Cup, together with Antwerp (December 23), Gavere (December 26), Hulst (December 30), Zonhoven (January 7), Benidorm (January 21) and Hoogerheide (January 28). 3 rounds of the X2O Trofee sequence – Baal, Koksijde and Hamme – also are on his agenda at the side of Precise Pass rounds at Mol and Loenhout.
Van der Poel’s large objective of the season, on the other hand, will probably be shooting a 6th elite males’s global identify after taking the rainbow stripes in 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. He additionally received junior global titles in 2012 and 2013. In 2024, the Worlds will probably be held within the Czech town of Tabor, the web site of his first elite identify again in 2015.
The 2023-24 ‘go season will see Van der Poel compete each few days with just one primary hole within the agenda between the Global Cups in Zonhoven and Benidorm in January. As was once the case ultimate yr, the wreck will have to see him hyperlink up along with his Alpecin-Deceuninck crew for a pre-road season coaching camp.
Van der Poel lately showed the extensive define of his cyclocross season, declaring that racing a restricted marketing campaign during the iciness is helping him get ready for the next Classics season at the street.
Together with his season agenda now showed, he’s going to now be ready to look which races his ‘go and street competitors Van Aert and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) will probably be competing in.
“I will get started my cyclocross season in past due December. It will be the similar as ultimate yr, with 10 to fifteen races and the Global Championships because the ultimate objective,” Van der Poel mentioned lately on the Madrid Criterium.
“Cyclocross is one thing I have achieved since I used to be just a little child. I believe a Vintage at the street is similar to a cyclocross race; the one distinction is that you must race 5 hours earlier than. Now, I arrange to be beautiful contemporary on the finish of lengthy races. The method began a few years in the past and now I believe I am at my easiest at the street as neatly.”