Puck Pieterse has backed up her Boxing Day success with a very impressive victory at Superprestige Diegem.
With Fem van Empel absent from the startline, there was a big opportunity for a win for one of the rest of the pack.
The standout performer was Puck Pieterse, the inform Dutchwoman who actually handed van Empel a rare defeat on Boxing Day. In Diegem, Pieterse led from the front and was a clear winner. Completing the podium, Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Inge van der Heijden.
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