Tadej Pogacar held off defending champion Mathieu van der Poel to say his second Tour of Flanders title.
The three-time Tour de France champion, racing for UAE Group Emirates-XRG, accomplished the 270km course in Belgium in 5 hours, 58 minutes and 41 seconds.
Pogacar completed simply over a minute away from Denmark’s Mads Pedersen in second, whereas Dutchman Van der Poel got here third, having recovered from a crash with 127km to go.
The Tour of Flanders, which started in 1919 and generally known as De Ronde, is a one-day highway race and second of the 5 Monuments of the season, held in Belgium each spring and highlighted by climbs and cobbled sectors.
“The objective was to win, however on the finish it is arduous to grasp. I can’t be extra happy with the workforce,” mentioned the 26-year-old.
Van der Poel re-joined the peloton inside simply 10km of his crash and tussled with Pogacar via the hills.
