Belgium World Cup **RESULTS RESULTS** (3 of 3)- World Cup Round 2 2019

Day 3 and 4 road racee are going to be merged into this blog. In fact this is a mammoth task so I'm going to update this blog after the boys' races this evening...


PART 1

Day 3 was all the three wheelerz road racing (including myself hence the delay!)

I got dropped early and finished 5th boo- nice time trial trying to make up an ever growing gap. Got wayyy more strength to show after having to take so much time out to heal from my surgery three months ago.

Karen Darke doubled up on her TT silver with a road race silver too, so proud of her. True consistency.



MH3 boys Luke Jonesssss was 9s from Gold! In the hugest MH3 race (53 entrants) that equalled 9th overall but wow that's an incredible result. Dan Hopwood was caught at the front of a chasing bunch 4 mins down in 17th.

MH4 boys Alex BT was 12th and 2mins down. I know myself once you're out of that leading bunch the long windy straights just push you right back. Tokyo will be hilly like Corridonia (world cup 1) so I hope the handcycle boys keep pushing. Mark Allen 12th and 12 mins down- I hope there wasn't a crash but I suspect there might have been.

MH5 Matt Faucher found himself a lap down after missing an acceleration but the Welsh dragon is far from done; his instagram updates (@matthew_faucher) and positivity have been by far the best for result hungry team mates. Thankyou!

Day 4- 2 wheeled road races.

The C1-3 girl's kicked things off- separate podiums for each class but they all raced together.

Britain's Katie Toft got gold again and was, for the first time, able to hang onto the C2 girls which was a big victory for her. It was incredibly, incredibly wet so when I asked her how her race went she just sent me a picture of her huddling in her zebra blanket with hand and foot pockets for extra warmth. It was v cute.

The C4-5s followed with Britain's Crystal Lane-Wright claiming gold- the first for the GBCT riders. Yes Crystal.


Lora and Corrine took silver in their WB road race in the chasing bunch sprint, Ireland clear for gold but I'm not sure how our Scottish Lauras did votrecourse is bare...

*update* they didn't finish- wish them all the best and hope it was a mechanical without a crash xxx.

PART 2

There's been a press release from British Cycling so this is great if you want to see who medalled, yay. The UCI have also put out the first small selection of photos here. If you're interested in how *everyone* did results are below (and above):

Actually missed out the trike boys in PART 1- rude- David Stone claimed a bronze in his road race, his team mate Craig had 2 mechanicals after busting his wheel to bits- classic trike wheel clash, unlucky 13th.



So I was right my detective work paid off even though I got no media confirmation- Crystal beat her long time competitor Samantha to the line for gold in the WC5 road race.

The C men's races went down a treat. Ben Watson won gold in the MC3 race with a solo effort at the end, his teammates Jaco and Fin setting up the move. It may well have been a 1, 2, 3- Jaco came in for silver but Fin punctured and just missed out in 4th. Incredible racing. That's my dream.... when British Cycling fund any trike women at all...- a trike 3 person race takeover ooft.



Bergie took 4th in the MC5 race but stayed upright, missing out on what looked to be a significant crash with 4 riders not finishing. There's a fun strava segment named after Bergie because he broke his collarbone at his first ever Para World Cup here in Belgium. Aww. Glad he missed the bollard this time. Unsure if independent C5 David Murphy was so lucky. A worrying DNF beside his name! Maybe a C5 roadie right of passage?

TT specialist MC4 George was having none of the road race and wasn't in his. An update from his triathlete teamie is that he *did* do a run the morning of his TT, ooft probably too broken 😉.

Simon and Manny finished 8th and 10th respectively in their MC2 race, Simon getting two places on his younger team mate. It wasn't enough this time. Our independent Ryan Taylor finished safely in 15th, kudos to you.

And that's a wrap. 👐. Apologies for any typos- I prefer slow writing and hope that a real comms team will share the paracycling love properly.