Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 2021

Name: Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 2021
Start: 2021-02-28T12:00:00Z
End: 2021-02-28T12:00:00Z
Location: Kuurne

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Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) wins Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 2021 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) proved quickest in the bunch sprint to win the 2021 edition of Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne ahead of Anthony Turgis (Total Direct Energie) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers).

The bunch sprint was hardly assured as the peloton chased after a leading quintet including Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), only making the catch 1,600 metres from the line.

The race is known as the more sprint-friendly of the two Opening Weekend races but Van der Poel looked to disrupted the normal flow of events, going on the attack with a massive 83km still to race, bridging across with Jhonatan Narvaez (Ineos Grenadiers) to an earlier breakaway.

Qhubeka Assos and Bahrain-Victorious worked to reel them in but it was a tense finale as Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep) attacked with Heinrich Haussler (Bahrain-Victorious) inside the final 4km and finally nailed the breakaway back. Despite a counter from Soren Kragh Andersen (DSM) the bunch came together for the sprint and Pedersen prevailed.

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Brief Results
Pos.	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo	4:37:04
2	Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Direct Energie
3	Thomas Pidcock (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers
4	Matteo Trentin (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
5	Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Israel Start-up Nation
6	Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious
7	Nils Politt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
8	Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team
9	Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
10	Erik Nordsaeter Resell (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

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Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 2021
28 February 2021 | Kuurne | 1.Pro
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