2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's elite race

Men's elite race
2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
	Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates	29 January 2017
Stages	1
Distance	24.67 km (15.33 mi)
Winning time	1h 02' 08"
Medalists
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Last updated March 04, 2019

This event was held on 29 January 2017 as part of the 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Belvaux, Luxembourg. Participants must be men born in 1994 or before. It was won by Wout van Aert of Belgium.^[1]

The 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2016–17. It was held in Bieles in Luxembourg on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 January 2017. The championships featured five events; men's races for elite, under-23 and junior riders, and women's races for elite and under-23 riders.

Belvaux is a town in the commune of Sanem, in south-western Luxembourg. As of 2005, the town has a population of 5,113. It is the administrative centre of Sanem commune. Belvaux is the twelfth-largest town in Luxembourg, and the largest not to have a commune named after it.

Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is one of the three official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the European Court of Justice, the highest judicial authority in the EU. Its culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its neighbours, making it essentially a mixture of French and German cultures, as evident by the nation's three official languages: French, German, and the national language, Luxembourgish. The repeated invasions by Germany, especially in World War II, resulted in the country's strong will for mediation between France and Germany and, among other things, led to the foundation of the European Union.

Race report

Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel were the big favourites before the race, having dominated the whole season and dividing the majority of races between them.

Wout van Aert is a Belgian professional road and cyclo-cross racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. He won the men's elite race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He joined Team Jumbo–Visma, in March 2019, on a three-year deal, after terminating his contract with Vérandas Willems–Crelan in 2018.

Mathieu van der Poel is a Dutch cyclist, who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport, for UCI Professional Continental team Corendon–Circus. He is best known for winning the Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tábor in 2015 and in Bogense in 2019, the Junior Road Race World Championships in Florence, Italy in 2013, and twice winning the Junior Cyclo-cross World Championships, in Koksijde, Belgium in 2012, and Louisville, USA in 2013; the first rider to win multiple titles at that level. As well as this, Van der Poel was the winner of the 2018 Dutch National Road Race Championships in Hoogerheide.

In contrast to the previous races, snow and ice were much less and the track had become much more muddy and therefore slower. As a result, several rocks surfaced which were barely visible and often covered in small pools of water. The race would turn out to become tough on the material, with especially flat tyres playing a deciding role.

Just after the start, Belgian Tom Meeusen broke his bicycle at the first obstacle and was forced to retire immediately. Meanwhile, van der Poel immediately raced away from the pack with only Kevin Pauwels able to follow. A chase group involved van Aert, Tim Merlier, Michael Vanthourenhout, Corné van Kessel, Stan Godrie, Clément Venturini and Lars van der Haar already 15 seconds back after the first lap. A puncture by Pauwels caused him to drop back, leaving van der Poel going solo from lap two. In the chasing group several riders also suffered multiple punctures and dropped back, with only van Aert able to remain about ten seconds behind.

Tom Meeusen is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team Corendon–Circus. He specializes in the discipline of cyclo-cross.

Kevin Pauwels is a retired Belgian professional racing cyclist, for the Sunweb-Napoleon Games team. Pauwels retired on 24 February 2019 by winning the Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle.

Tim Merlier is a Belgian cyclist riding for Vérandas Willems–Crelan.

Van der Poel suffered successive punctures on laps 2, 3 and 4 but each time closely before the pit lane, not losing much time but allowing van Aert to close the gap each lap, finally getting back together on lap 4. Behind the two leaders the gap kept widening, however the first chaser changed often as punctures caused many riders to drop back from a good position. Several riders suffered several punctures and some riders even dropped out of the race as they ran out of spare tyres, including 2008 World Champion Lars Boom.

The 2008 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships took place in Treviso, Italy on the weekend of January 26 and January 27, 2008. As 2007, four events were scheduled.

Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom is a professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team Roompot–Charles.

The two leaders remained together until lap 6 when disaster struck for van der Poel as he suffered a puncture a long distance from the pits, causing him to lose 30 seconds on van Aert. Van Aert now only needed to avoid punctures in the last three laps to win his second consecutive world title, in which he succeeded. As the other riders were already over a minute back, van der Poel had no problem securing second but was visibly disappointed with his second place and eventually finished in tears 44 seconds behind van Aert.

In the fight for third, over two minutes behind van Aert, Pauwels was able to overtake van der Haar on the final lap to take his fifth bronze medal at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships following earlier third places in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2016.

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships are the world championships for cyclo-cross organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Since 2016, five events are organized each year – men's elite, women's elite, men's under 23, women's under 23 and men's under 18 (Juniors). Traditionally, the elite events are held on a Sunday with the other events held on the Saturday the day before.

The 2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships took place in Sankt Wendel, Germany on the weekend of January 29 and 30, 2011. As in the previous years, four events were scheduled.

The 2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships is the World Championship for cyclo-cross. It took place in Koksijde, Belgium on the weekend of January 28 and 29, 2012. As in the previous years, four events were scheduled. The event was the biggest Cyclo-cross World Championship yet, in terms of attendance. About 61000 people headed down to Koksijde on Sunday for the main event.

Results

^[1]

Rank	Cyclist	Time
	Wout van Aert (BEL)	1h 02' 08"
	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	+ 44"
	Kevin Pauwels (BEL)	+ 2' 09"
4	Lars van der Haar (NED)	+ 2' 52"
5	Corné van Kessel (NED)	+ 3' 09"
6	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	+ 3' 29"
7	Michael Boros (CZE)	+ 3' 47"
8	Gianni Vermeersch (BEL)	+ 4' 02"
9	Simon Zahner (SUI)	+ 4' 08"
10	Sascha Weber (GER)	+ 4' 29"
11	Jan Nesvadba (CZE)	+ 4' 50"
12	Tim Merlier (BEL)	+ 5' 07"
13	Philipp Walsleben (GER)	+ 5' 07"
14	Severin Sagesser (SUI)	+ 5' 18"
15	Nicola Rohrbach (SUI)	+ 5' 28"
16	Javier Ruiz de Larrinaga (ESP)	+ 5' 35"
17	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	+ 5' 40"
18	Stephen Hyde (USA)	+ 5' 41"
19	Julien Taramarcaz (SUI)	+ 5' 57"
20	Luca Braidot (ITA)	+ 6' 05"
21	Matthieu Boulo (FRA)	+ 6' 15"
22	Emil Hekele (CZE)	+ 6' 26"
23	Alois Falenta (FRA)	+ 6' 26"
24	Marcel Wildhaber (SUI)	+ 6' 29"
25	Marek Konwa (POL)	+ 6' 41"
26	Tomas Paprstka (CZE)	+ 6' 49"
27	Ismael Esteban Agüero (ESP)	+ 7' 03"
28	Martin Haring (SVK)	+ 7' 18"
29	Clément Venturini (FRA)	+ 7' 38"
30	David van der Poel (NED)	+ 2 laps
31	Francis Mourey (FRA)	+ 2 laps
32	Jeremy Powers (USA)	+ 2 laps
33	Kerry Werner (USA)	+ 2 laps
34	Stan Godrie (NED)	+ 2 laps
35	Cristian Cominelli (ITA)	+ 2 laps
36	Kenneth Hansen (DEN)	+ 2 laps
37	Ian Field (GBR)	+ 2 laps
38	Michael Van Den Ham (CAN)	+ 2 laps
39	Michal Malik (CZE)	+ 2 laps
40	Daniele Braidot (ITA)	+ 2 laps
41	Steve Chainel (FRA)	+ 2 laps
42	Lex Reichling (LUX)	+ 3 laps
43	Kevin Suarez Fernandez (ESP)	+ 3 laps
44	Lars Boom (NED)	+ 3 laps
45	Joachim Parbo (DEN)	+ 3 laps
46	Gusty Bausch (LUX)	+ 3 laps
47	Jeremy Martin (CAN)	+ 3 laps
48	Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (ESP)	+ 3 laps
49	Travis Livermon (USA)	+ 3 laps
50	Zsolt Bur (HUN)	+ 3 laps
51	Hikaru Kosaka (JPN)	+ 3 laps
52	Scott Thiltges (LUX)	+ 3 laps
53	Kohei Maeda (JPN)	+ 4 laps
54	Tommy Nielsen (DEN)	+ 4 laps
55	Mark McConnell (CAN)	+ 4 laps
56	Ingvar Ómarsson (ISL)	+ 4 laps
57	Tobin Ortenblad (USA)	+ 4 laps
58	Pit Schlechter (LUX)	+ 4 laps
59	Jeremy Durrin (USA)	+ 4 laps
60	Christian Helmig (LUX)	+ 4 laps
	Marcel Meisen (GER)	DNF7
	Jack Kisseberth (USA)	DNF5
	Toki Sawada (JPN)	DNF2
	Tom Meeusen (BEL)	DNF1

Fastest laps

Overall^[2]

Pos.	Cyclist	Time	Lap
1	Wout van Aert (BEL)	7:30.2	Lap 6
2	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	7:38.1	Lap 1
3	Kevin Pauwels (BEL)	7:44.3	Lap 1
4	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	7:46.6	Lap 4
5	Corné van Kessel (NED)	7:49.8	Lap 2
6	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	7:50.3	Lap 4
7	Tim Merlier (BEL)	7:50.7	Lap 1
7	Philipp Walsleben (GER)	7:50.7	Lap 2
9	Gianni Vermeersch (BEL)	7:51.0	Lap 4
10	Stan Godrie (NED)	7:51.4	Lap 1

By lap^[2]

Lap	Cyclist	Time
Start	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	32"
1	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	7' 38"
2	Wout van Aert (BEL)	7' 39"
3		7' 41"
4		7' 45"
5		7' 45"
6		7' 30"
7		7' 33"
8	Kevin Pauwels (BEL)	7' 48"

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References

1 2 "Wereldkampioen! Wout van Aert wint een WK tjokvol lekke banden" [World champion! Wout van Aert wins a World Championship chock full of punctures] (in Dutch). Sporza. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
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[sporza-race-report-1] 1 2 "Wereldkampioen! Wout van Aert wint een WK tjokvol lekke banden" [World champion! Wout van Aert wins a World Championship chock full of punctures] (in Dutch). Sporza. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

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