Photo seriesJonas Vingegaard won the Boxmeer criterion tonight, after he had paid a maternity visit to the Van Aert family during the day. The winner of the Tour de France beat his fellow escapee Wout Poels in a sprint. Mike Teunissen won the sprint of the peloton and finished third.
Vingegaard was honored as the winner of the Tour on Sunday. The Danish leader of Jumbo-Visma traveled to Boxmeer on Monday. He made a stopover in Belgium and paid a maternity visit to teammate Wout van Aert.
He presented Van Aert with a small yellow sweater for his newborn son Jerome in his hometown of Herentals. Van Aert did not start the Tour on Thursday, because his wife Sarah De Bie was about to give birth for the second time. That same day was his son Jerome was bornit became known on Friday morning when Van Aert and his wife posted a photo on Instagram.
Wout Poels, who won no less than nine criteria and received 11,000 euros to start in Boxmeer, won the fifteenth stage of the Tour to the top of Mont Blanc. Boxmeer welcomed a winner of the Tour de France for the first time since 1997. At the time, Jan Ullrich came to the Brabant criterium the day after the Tour.
Mathieu van der Poel did not start in Boxmeer. He opted for the criterion of Aalst in Belgium and crossed the finish line first. His teammate Jasper Philipsen at Alpecin-Deceuninck, winner of the green jersey in the Tour, came second. Giulio Ciccone finished third. The Italian won the classification for the best climber in the Tour de France.
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