Dylan van Baarle, cyclist of the Ineos team, won this Sunday in another edition of the Paris-Roubaix, a one-day race that took place over 257 kilometers, with several sections of cobblestone.
Van Baarle (Voorburg, 29 years old), second in the recent Tour of Flanders, savored at the Roubaix velodrome the most important triumph of his professional career, as the end of a glorious solo escape, which allowed him to throw his arms to the sky like a champion.
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Glory in the Hell of the North, king of the cobblestones. Van Baarle did not believe it, made up by the dust of the road.
He entered the finish line with his hands on his head. But it was true, a reality, she won the classic of the classics with a time of 5 h 37 min 01 s, with a wide advantage of 1.46 minutes over a small chasing group led by the great favorite, the Belgian Wout Van Aert (Jumbo Visma), recovered from Covid, but without strength in the key moments of the test.
The Swiss Stephan Kung (Groupama) closed the podium, one of the protagonists of the race together with the previous ones, the Belgian Tom Devriendt (Intermarche), fourth,and the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), fifth.
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The other great reference, the Dutchman Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin Fenix), was not in the fight for the podium, unable to follow the decisive attacks far from the finish He settled for ninth place.
A triumph for Van Baarle, which is the sixth of his professional career, and the eighteenth of his team this season.
A team that has enjoyed a fantastic week with the triumphs of Daniel Felipe Martìnez in Itzulia. Kwiatkowski at the Amstel, Sheefield at the Flecha Brabanzona and now the top prize at the Paris Roubaix.
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