Edward Theuns holds on for breakaway win in thrilling finale at Bredene Koksijde Classic 2025
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After a frantic tug of war between breakaway and peloton at the 2025 edition of the Bredene Koksijde Classic, it was eventually Edward Theuns of Lidl-Trek who prevailed to take the win from the break ahead of Luke Lamperti and Nils Eekhoff.
Heading into the final 50km of the day, a strong 15-rider group was dangling just under a minute clear of the first part of the peloton. Among the riders in the lead group were notable names such as Luke Lamperti, Edward Theuns, Nils Eekhoff, Ethan Vernon and Alec Segaert among others. Because of the lead group were working incredibly well together, the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team led peloton were struggling to bring the gap back. As such, as the race entered the finishing circuit at just over 30km to go, the lead group's advantage was still around 45 seconds.
By 20km to go, the bunch had begun to make inroads though, cutting the deficit to 37 seconds. As the final lap began at around 11km to go though, the win was still very much in the balance as the break maintained a 20+ second gap. The break soon began to finally start infighting however, but still, they entered the final 3km 8 seconds clear. At 1km to go, just 5 seconds separated the two groups and in a thrilling finale, the break were about to be caught as the sprints were launched, but from the break it was ultimately Edward Theuns that took the win ahead of Luke Lamperti and Nils Eekhoff.
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- Two riders unlike any others over the past few decades, during this era of carb fueling, seems relevant to me.RidesHills23-03-2025
- Funny that they shorten women’s races but have no qualms about letting U23 do the same distances.Jumpyjohn23-03-2025
- Why is that relevant when discussing speed?Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- But he wasn’t the only one ;-)Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- Obviously the questions are more important to some here than to them or the team so I suggest looking for answers instead of asking questions between ourselves. We’ll probably get them unless someone actually goes to ask the protagonists themselves. Here are some starters : They like riding together; they have their own rivalry that helps bring out the best in both; they might get more points helping each other compared to racing separate races. In any case, unless we hear MJ complaining about it, I don’t think it’s going to change, it’s the Sepp Kuss syndrome all over again, fans lobbying against the will of the rider.Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- Mine goes to MVDP for entertaining us all year round :-) Stellar race, Ganna impressive in his own way as many predicted after some oddly lacklustre times.Mistermaumau23-03-2025
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- bravissima!
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