Gerben Thijssen wins Omloop van het Houtland

The cycling teams were clearly counting on a sprint today. Many top sprinters such as John Degenkolb, Dylan Groenewegen, Tim Merlier and Gerben Thijssen were at the start today. Lotto-Dstny started without Caleb Ewan, the Australian is reportedly injured.

Expected sprint

Immediately after the start, Jonas Rickaert attacked, together with Tom Sexton and Abram Stockman. Their attempted attack failed about 30 kilometers from the finish, after some hard work from Soudal Quick-Step in the peloton. Baptiste Planckaert and Frederik Frison took their chances, but they were also caught by the peloton. As expected, it came to a sprint and Gerben Thijssen turned out to be the fastest. He narrowly beats Dylan Groenewegen and Cedric Beullens.