Claes went in the early flight. Against the expectation, that flight got a lot of time from the peloton that the gap never completely closed.
Claes and Nerlo said goodbye to their fellow refugees Mieke Docx and Elena Pirrone more than fifteen kilometers from the end on the wall of Geraardsbergen. Julie Stockman has already been fired. The refugees entered the final with more than five minutes. Favorites Demi Vollering and Puck Pieterse tried to close the backlog in vain on the wall.
For Claes it is the first victory in her career