Boulo outsprints Van der Haar
By Brecht Decaluwé published
Baestaens holds World Cup lead
France's Matthieu Boulo has won the seventh round of the men’s Under 23 World Cup on home soil in Pontchâteau. The 21-year-old French champion outsprinted European champion Lars van der Haar (Netherlands) for the victory. Matteo Trentin (Italy) was best of the rest at half a minute from the leading duo. Belgian pro rider Vincent Baestaens finished sixth in France and remains World Cup leader.
After a fast reconnaissance lap with a compact peloton, Trentin was one of the few riders who could keep the pace high. The Italian created a gap over the rest of the pack for two laps. Behind him Boulo had another acceleration in his legs and going into the third lap he chased Trentin down. Van der Haar was the only rider capable to stay near Boulo, while Trentin faded and was later caught by a group with Baestaens, Joeri Adams (Belgium), Jim Aernouts (Belgium), Mike Teunissen (The Netherlands), Ole Quast (Germany) and Irwin Gras (France).
Van der Haar needed a couple of laps to catch up with Boulo but during the sixth lap the two got together. About 45 seconds behind the leading duo Trentin launched a solo counter-attack.
Whilst the duo in front was looking for their second breath they knew that nobody would come back at them from behind. Trentin battled for third place with a gap of 10 seconds over Teunissen while the rest of the chasers followed further behind.
The duo in front headed for a sprint which was surprisingly won by Boulo. Trentin held on to his gap over the other chasers and claimed his first podium result of the season in the World Cup. Adams won the sprint of a large group for fourth place holding off Teunissen, Baestaens, Gras, Silvestri, Aernouts, Vinnie Braet (Belgium) and Jimmy Turgis (France).
In the World Cup standings Baestaens lost 20 points on Van der Haar and now has only a five point lead. Formerly second place Wietse Bosmans (Belgium) had an off-day in Pontchâteau and his 18th position puts him back into fourth place. Boulo is now third at 21 points from Baestaens.
Van der Haar heads into next week's last World Cup round in Hoogerheide which is ridden on home soil knowing that he currently has much better form than Baestaens.
1 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) France | 0:51:55 |
2 | Lars van der Haar (Ned) Netherlands | |
3 | Matteo Trentin (Ita) Italy | 0:00:33 |
4 | Joeri Adams (Bel) Belgium | 0:00:54 |
5 | Mike Teunissen (Ned) Netherlands | 0:00:55 |
6 | Vincent Baestaens (Bel) Belgium | |
7 | Irwin Gras (Fra) France | |
8 | Elia Silvestri (Ita) Italy | |
9 | Jim Aernouts (Bel) Belgium | |
10 | Ole Quast (Ger) Germany | 0:00:57 |
11 | Vinnie Braet (Bel) Belgium | |
12 | Jimmy Turgis (Fra) France | 0:00:59 |
13 | Micki Van Empel (Ned) Netherlands | 0:01:20 |
14 | Gert-Jan Bosman (Ned) Netherlands | |
15 | Thibault Taboury (Fra) France-B | 0:01:22 |
16 | David Menut (Fra) France | 0:01:24 |
17 | Jan Nesvadba (Cze) Czech Republic | |
18 | Wietse Bosmans (Bel) Belgium | 0:01:26 |
19 | Théo Vimpere (Fra) France | 0:01:27 |
20 | Lubomir Petrus (Cze) Czech Republic | 0:01:28 |
21 | David Van Der Poel (Ned) Netherlands | |
22 | Twan Van Den Brand (Ned) Netherlands | |
23 | Camille Thominet (Fra) France | 0:01:31 |
24 | Gianni Vermeersch (Bel) Belgium | 0:02:03 |
25 | Jérémy Grimal (Fra) France-B | 0:02:04 |
26 | Freddie Guilloux (Fra) France-B | |
27 | Kevin Eeckhout (Bel) Belgium | 0:02:50 |
28 | Tomas Paprstka (Cze) Czech Republic | 0:02:56 |
29 | Michael Schweizer (Ger) Germany | 0:03:16 |
30 | Luca Braidot (Ita) Italy | 0:03:35 |
31 | Michael Boros (Cze) Czech Republic | 0:03:51 |
32 | Miguel Fillaut (Fra) France-B | 0:04:02 |
33 | Jiri Polnicky (Cze) Czech Republic | 0:04:13 |
34 | Marcel Meisen (Ger) Germany | |
35 | Max Walsleben (Ger) Germany | 0:05:07 |
36 | Rudy Kowalski (Fra) France-B | 0:05:15 |
37 | Fabian Danner (Ger) Germany | -3laps |
1 | Vincent Baestaens (Bel) Belgium | 180 | pts |
2 | Lars van der Haar (Ned) Netherlands | 175 | |
3 | Matthieu Boulo (Fra) France | 159 | |
4 | Wietse Bosmans (Bel) Belgium | 158 | |
5 | Joeri Adams (Bel) Belgium | 116 | |
6 | Elia Silvestri (Ita) Italy | 106 | |
7 | Tijmen Eising (Ned) Netherlands | 100 | |
8 | Jim Aernouts (Bel) Belgium | 99 | |
9 | Micki Van Empel (Ned) Netherlands | 81 | |
10 | Matteo Trentin (Ita) Italy | 77 | |
11 | Vinnie Braet (Bel) Belgium | 75 | |
12 | Marcel Meisen (Ger) Germany | 63 | |
13 | Mike Teunissen (Ned) Netherlands | 61 | |
14 | Ole Quast (Ger) Germany | 53 | |
15 | Michiel Van Der Heijden (Ned) Netherlands | 52 | |
16 | Gert-Jan Bosman (Ned) Netherlands | 48 | |
17 | Sean De Bie (Bel) Belgium | 45 | |
18 | Arnaud Grand (Swi) Switzerland | 44 | |
19 | Irwin Gras (Fra) France | 37 | |
20 | Gianni Vermeersch (Bel) Belgium | 35 | |
21 | Marek Konwa (Pol) Poland | 32 | |
22 | Karel Hnik (Cze) Czech Republic | 28 | |
23 | Kevin Eeckhout (Bel) Belgium | 28 | |
24 | Tomas Paprstka (Cze) Czech Republic | 28 | |
25 | Daniel Summerhill (USA) United States | 28 | |
26 | Sven Beelen (Bel) Belgium | 25 | |
27 | Twan Van Den Brand (Ned) Netherlands | 24 | |
28 | Kenneth Hansen (Den) Denmark | 23 | |
29 | Jiri Polnicky (Cze) Czech Republic | 22 | |
30 | Michael Schweizer (Ger) Germany | 22 | |
31 | Zach Mcdonald (USA) United States | 22 | |
32 | Jimmy Turgis (Fra) France | 19 | |
33 | Tim Merlier (Bel) Belgium | 18 | |
34 | Angelo De Clercq (Bel) Belgium | 18 | |
35 | Thibault Taboury (Fra) France | 16 | |
36 | David Menut (Fra) France | 15 | |
37 | Mirko Tabacchi (Ita) Italy | 15 | |
38 | Jan Nesvadba (Cze) Czech Republic | 14 | |
39 | Michael Boros (Cze) Czech Republic | 14 | |
40 | Jens Adams (Bel) Belgium | 13 | |
41 | Théo Vimpere (Fra) France | 12 | |
42 | Lubomir Petrus (Cze) Czech Republic | 11 | |
43 | Melvin Rulliere (Fra) France | 11 | |
44 | David Van Der Poel (Ned) Netherlands | 10 | |
45 | Camille Thominet (Fra) France | 8 | |
46 | Théo Dumanchin (Fra) France | 8 | |
47 | Jérémy Grimal (Fra) France | 6 | |
48 | Corne Van Kessel (Ned) Netherlands | 6 | |
49 | Freddie Guilloux (Fra) France | 5 | |
50 | Radek Polnicky (Cze) Czech Republic | 4 | |
51 | Vincent Dias Dos Santos (Lux) Luxembourg | 4 | |
52 | Matthias Bossuyt (Bel) Belgium | 3 | |
53 | Yannick Mayer (Ger) Germany | 2 | |
54 | Luca Braidot (Ita) Italy | 1 | |
55 | Michael Winterberg (Swi) Switzerland | 1 |

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