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| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | September |
| Region | Beringen, Belgium |
| Discipline | Cyclo-cross |
| Competition | Exact Cross |
| History | |
| First edition | 2019 |
| Editions | 6 (as of 2024) |
| First winner | Men: Quinten Hermans (BEL)Women:  Annemarie Worst (NED) |
| Most recent | Men: Thibau Nys (BEL) Women: Fem van Empel (NED) |
The Cyclo-cross Beringen is a cyclo-cross race held in Beringen, Belgium, which is part of the Exact Cross, formerly known as the Ethias/Brico Cross.
| Year | Men's winner | Women's winner |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lars van der Haar | Fem van Empel |
| 2023 | Thibau Nys | Fem van Empel |
| 2022 | Eli Iserbyt | Fem van Empel |
| 2021 | Eli Iserbyt | Yara Kastelijn |
| 2020 | Toon Aerts | Denise Betsema |
| 2019 | Quinten Hermans | Annemarie Worst |
Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter, and consist of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike while navigating the obstruction and remount. Races for senior categories are generally between 40 minutes and an hour long, with the distance varying depending on the ground conditions. The sport is strongest in the traditional road cycling countries such as Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
Rolf Wolfshohl was a German professional road bicycle racing and cyclo-cross racing cyclist. Wolfshohl is best known in cyclo-cross for winning the then unoffical cyclo-cross world championship three times, and in road racing for winning the 1965 Vuelta a España. He won the German National Road Race in 1968.
Ben Berden is a Belgian professional racing cyclist specializing in cyclocross. Berden was caught for doping in January 2005, immediately admitted to it, and was ultimately banned from the sport for 15 months.
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Eli Iserbyt is a Belgian cyclo-cross and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal. As a junior, he won the silver medal at the 2015 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. He won the gold medal in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder and took another gold in the under-23 race at the 2017 UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Tábor. In 2018 he won another gold medal in the men's under-23 event at the World Championships in Valkenburg.
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