Scheldeboord
Dendermonde · Sunday 6 September 2026 · · week 1 of Summer 2026 · Second division A junior women
dry course · 5 laps · mud and power — settled — this is what it will be, 24°, 2 mm in drie dagen · 950 spectators lined the course
The podium
| 1 goud | Eliška Dvořáková — | 37:20 — | 30 pts € 900 |
| 2 zilver | Nina Vandaele — | 37:40 +20.0s | 25 pts € 600 |
| 3 brons | Aline Cools — | 37:52 +32.2s | 21 pts € 450 |
The course
- the mud strip
- the long straight
- the sequence of corners
- the steps
- the deep furrow
- the wide section
The rest of the result
| Rider | Team | Time | Gap | Prize | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Veerle Demeyer | — | 37:56 | +36.5s | € 320 | 18 |
| 5 | Maaike Vermeulen | — | 38:01 | +40.8s | € 320 | 17 |
| 6 | Anežka Benešová | — | 38:02 | +41.8s | € 320 | 16 |
| 7 | Wies Baeten | — | 38:02 | +42.1s | € 220 | 15 |
| 8 | Wies Peeters | — | 38:02 | +42.6s | € 220 | 14 |
| 9 | Justine Chevalier | — | 38:03 | +43.0s | € 220 | 13 |
| 10 | Roos Verstraete | — | 38:03 | +43.1s | € 220 | 12 |
| 11 | Puck Vermeulen | — | 38:05 | +45.3s | € 150 | 11 |
| 12 | Emma Coppens | — | 38:07 | +46.8s | € 150 | 10 |
| 13 | Ainhoa Bosch | — | 38:08 | +47.9s | € 150 | 9 |
| 14 | Yara Vandaele | — | 38:09 | +49.5s | € 150 | 8 |
| 15 | Janne Steyaert | — | 38:11 | +51.2s | € 150 | 7 |
| 16 | Julie Coppens | — | 38:12 | +52.4s | € 150 | 6 |
| 17 | Anke Vandenberghe | — | 38:14 | +53.8s | € 150 | 5 |
| 18 | Marthe Bruggeman | — | 38:14 | +54.4s | € 150 | 4 |
| 19 | Lise Coppens | — | 38:15 | +55.3s | € 150 | 3 |
| 20 | Nina Bruggeman | — | 38:19 | +58.7s | € 150 | 2 |
| 21 | Eline Verlinden | — | 38:20 Spare bike: punctured and changed bikes. | +1:01 | € 90 | |
| 22 | Noor Tanghe | — | 38:21 | +1:01 | € 90 | |
| 23 | Lise Bruggeman | WC De Wieltjeszuigers | 38:21 | +1:01 | € 90 | |
| 24 | Lotte Verbeke | — | 38:22 | +1:02 | € 90 | |
| 25 | Aline Willems | — | 38:22 | +1:03 | € 90 | |
| 26 | Manon Lefevre | — | 38:23 | +1:03 | € 90 | |
| 27 | Núria Vidal | — | 38:23 | +1:04 | € 90 | |
| 28 | Lise Smets | — | 38:25 | +1:05 | € 90 | |
| 29 | Camille Barbier | — | 38:25 | +1:06 | € 90 | |
| 30 | Tine Bogaerts | — | 38:28 | +1:08 | € 90 | |
| 31 | Wies Vanhoutte | — | 38:29 | +1:10 | ||
| 32 | Lore Vermote | — | 38:31 | +1:11 | ||
| 33 | Roos Brouwers | — | 38:37 | +1:17 | ||
| 34 | Robin Vercammen | — | 39:05 | +1:45 | ||
| 35 | Lotte De Clercq | — | 39:06 | +1:46 | ||
| 36 | Lotte Janssens | — | 39:23 Spare bike: punctured and changed bikes. | +2:04 |
Race report
39:23 Lotte Janssens brings up the rear at 2 minutes. Everybody finished.
39:06 Lotte De Clercq crosses the line 35th, at 1:46.
39:05 Robin Vercammen crosses the line 34th, at 1:45.
37:52 Aline Cools crosses the line 3rd, at 0:32.
37:40 Nina Vandaele crosses the line 2nd, at 0:20.
37:20 Eliška Dvořáková wins by 20 seconds.
36:40 The ground in the wet meadow has been ridden rock hard.
35:08 Lotte Janssens punctures in the deep furrow, changes bike and loses 14 seconds.
34:50 Nina Bruggeman has to let Julie Coppens go in the start straight.
34:35 Roos Brouwers slides out in the little climb at the back and loses 3 seconds.
34:00 The course is hard underneath; this is a day for anyone who can keep the power on.
33:50 Roos Verstraete had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Ainhoa Bosch in the start straight.
33:10 Ride the sequence of corners instead of running it and you take half a second out of the rest every lap.
32:50 Janne Steyaert takes the other line through the off-camber and comes out ahead of Eline Verlinden.
32:40 They are nearly all taking the same side through the wet meadow now; the other line is finished.
31:10 In the wet meadow Veerle Demeyer gains a place on Wies Baeten.
31:00 There are holes in the line through the wide section that nobody is riding out any more.
30:10 Get the finishing straight wrong and you are standing still — and it is happening more and more.
30:00 All five are hunting a different line through the off-camber; none of them is finding the good one.
29:29 Eliška Dvořáková goes past Nina Vandaele and takes the lead.
29:20 The line through the wide section has opened right up.
29:10 Lise Coppens is too quick for Janne Steyaert in the deep furrow and lies 18th now.
29:00 Roos Verstraete goes past Wies Vanhoutte in the finishing straight.
28:30 The lines are fixed on a course this dry; they are all riding the same rut.
27:50 Justine Chevalier takes Emma Coppens back in the off-camber.
26:50 The line through the long straight is shifting; they are riding a metre off where they were a moment ago.
26:40 Ainhoa Bosch takes the other line through the deep furrow and comes out ahead of Emma Coppens.
26:30 There is 6 seconds on the clock behind the leaders.
26:22 Wies Peeters slides out in the off-camber and loses 3 seconds.
25:50 Dust over the finishing straight — there is no grip left in the corners.
24:50 Puck Vermeulen dives past Núria Vidal in the start straight.
24:10 Hardly a bike change all day — there is nothing to wash off.
24:00 The gap to the first chaser is 17 seconds.
23:30 Emma Coppens has to let Wies Baeten go in the sequence of corners.
23:20 The front group is riding on sight, not on line; it all looks the same out there.
22:00 The course is hard underneath; this is a day for anyone who can keep the power on.
21:10 Tine Bogaerts had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Veerle Demeyer in the mud strip.
19:40 The entrance to the sequence of corners is littered with abandoned bikes.
19:30 Nina Vandaele has opened a gap and is alone up there.
19:10 A day for racing on the pedals; there is nothing to slide away.
18:50 The ground in the wide section has been ridden rock hard.
18:40 Ainhoa Bosch is too quick for Núria Vidal in the slippery descent and lies 13th now.
18:30 Lise Smets is too quick for Tine Bogaerts in the little climb at the back and lies 19th now.
18:10 It is getting harder through the start straight with every lap that goes by.
18:00 Janne Steyaert is too quick for Roos Verstraete in the wide section and lies 8th now.
17:50 Justine Chevalier is too quick for Aline Willems in the long straight and lies 23rd now.
17:30 All five are hunting a different line through the wide section; none of them is finding the good one.
17:00 In the mud strip Aline Cools gains a place on Roos Verstraete.
15:50 Ainhoa Bosch is too quick for Julie Coppens in the pit and lies 17th now.
15:20 The wide section is costing a few seconds more every lap.
14:50 Marthe Bruggeman goes past Lotte Verbeke in the finishing straight.
14:40 Anežka Benešová takes the other line through the mud strip and comes out ahead of Veerle Demeyer.
14:10 In the hairpin Roos Verstraete gains a place on Eliška Dvořáková.
13:50 Dry and dusty, and by the end you cannot tell who is who.
12:00 Roos Verstraete dives past Ainhoa Bosch in the finishing straight.
11:22 Eline Verlinden punctures in the wide section, changes bike and loses 12 seconds.
11:20 Dust over the slippery descent — there is no grip left in the corners.
11:10 In the wide section Noor Tanghe gains a place on Veerle Demeyer.
9:50 Maaike Vermeulen goes past Veerle Demeyer in the hairpin.
9:40 Anežka Benešová takes Anke Vandenberghe back in the little bridge.
9:00 Nina Bruggeman had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Lise Bruggeman in the finishing straight.
8:00 Lise Coppens has to let Wies Vanhoutte go in the finishing straight.
7:14 Nina Vandaele takes the lead.
7:10 Nina Vandaele has opened a gap and is alone up there.
6:40 The steps is drying out on the side the sun is on.
6:30 The gap to the first chaser is 4 seconds.
5:50 On a dry course there is little to win in the corners; it has to come from the legs.
5:30 The sand in the sequence of corners is loose and deep — that is where the hour will be decided.
5:00 It is dusting up in the hurdles; anyone at the back is riding in a cloud.
3:55 Marthe Bruggeman goes down hard in the finishing straight, loses 30 seconds and rides on battered.
2:20 There are holes in the line through the wet meadow that nobody is riding out any more.
2:10 Nothing has split at the front yet; Nina Vandaele is leading it.
2:00 The line through the little bridge is shifting; they are riding a metre off where they were a moment ago.
1:40 There is 4 seconds on the clock behind the leaders.
0:10 Ainhoa Bosch is too quick for Veerle Demeyer in the pit and lies 2nd now.
0:00 Scheldeboord: dry course, 5 laps. Mostly mud and power.