{"id":50664,"date":"2025-09-19T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=50664"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:14:38","slug":"groenewegen-takes-tight-second-place-at-kampioenschap-van-vlaanderen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/groenewegen-takes-tight-second-place-at-kampioenschap-van-vlaanderen\/","title":{"rendered":"Groenewegen takes tight second place at Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dutchman <strong>Dylan Groenewegen<\/strong> was narrowly pipped to the victory in a fierce sprint battle at the <strong>Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen<\/strong> in Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former winner was the first rider to launch his kick for the line and his bold move almost paid off. The result is the 32-year-old\u2019s eighth top-10 finish in the Belgian one-day event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race traditionally ends in a bunch sprint and today was no exception as the peloton comfortably reeled in an early breakaway over the final two laps. A series of crashes made for a nervous finale, but Groenewegen was kept safe by his teammates as <strong>Max Walscheid <\/strong>patrolled the front of the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strong lead out from <strong>Elmaar Reinders<\/strong> teed up Groenwegen perfectly for his planned early sprint, and the plan almost came off, with only Jonathan Milan able to overhaul the Dutchman on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dylan Groenewegen:<br><\/span><em>\u201cWe came for the victory, and I was close in the end. Elmar did an amazing job to bring me into a good position to sprint for the victory, but in the end, there was just one rider stronger. That\u2019s a bit sad, but that\u2019s also cycling.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think it was fair in the sprint, I went early, but that\u2019s what I wanted. I also told the guys in the meeting that I want to go early and do my sprint and if somebody passes me then he\u2019s just stronger and that\u2019s what happened today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2025 Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen \u2013 Results:<br><\/span>1. Jonathan Milan 3:45:25<br>2. <strong>Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco AlUlA)<\/strong> +0:00<br>3. Tim Merlier ST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen was narrowly pipped to the victory in a fierce sprint battle at the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen in Belgium. The former winner was the first rider to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50666,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50664\/revisions\/50666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}