Iserbyt wins last round in Telenet Superprestige

The West Fleming had to close a gap on Lars van der Haar several times, but still made it. “This has cost some strength,” he admitted, “it is a victory in character.”

“I had to grow in the game,” he said in the flash interview. “I was the lesser in the sand, but in the subsequent strips I felt that I had a lot of power in my legs. So I didn’t just give in, because I could perhaps make the difference there in the last round.”

Although it didn’t come to that, because Van der Haar made a mistake on a slope and had to put a foot down in that final lap. Iserbyt took advantage. “That was my moment, because you know that as a rider you always have to ‘recover’ after a fall. So I had to accelerate and go for it. This is a boost after Oostmalle, because I wanted to put in a good performance there Now I do win and that makes me very happy, because the level is still very high even after the World Cup.”

For Iserbyt it is his second victory in the Superprestige. In the final standings he finished in second place after the Dutchman Lars van der Haar.