Cyclo-cross rider Brand takes an advance on the X2O Trophy final victory
Lucinda Brand has won the Krawatencross, a cyclocross race in Lille in Flanders that counts for the X2O Trophy. With this, the Baloise-Trek Lions rider extended her lead in the standings. There will be one more cross in the competition in time.
Brand only had to fear Denise Betsema in the standings, but the Texel rider drove an unfortunate race in Lille and finished seventh after almost 2.5 minutes.
Just under a minute after Brand, Annemarie Worst finished second. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado completed the entire Dutch podium.
For Brand it was the eighteenth victory of the season. She booked seventeen of them dressed in the rainbow jersey. She lost that last week at the World Championships to Marianne Vos, who immediately ended her cyclocross season.