Scheldeboord
Dendermonde · Sunday 6 September 2026 · · week 1 of Summer 2026 · Second division A under-23 men
dry course · 6 laps · mud and power — settled — this is what it will be, 26°, 2 mm in drie dagen · 1.560 spectators lined the course
The podium
| 1 goud | Lars Demeyer — | 44:44 — | 30 pts € 900 |
| 2 zilver | Vic Vanacker — | 44:53 +9.6s | 25 pts € 600 |
| 3 brons | Simon Maes — | 44:54 +10.5s | 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 | Kasper Vandevelde | — | 45:00 | +16.2s | € 320 | 18 |
| 5 | Corentin Renaud | — | 45:00 | +16.5s | € 320 | 17 |
| 6 | Florian Barbier | — | 45:02 | +18.7s | € 320 | 16 |
| 7 | Jakub Svoboda | — | 45:04 | +20.1s | € 220 | 15 |
| 8 | Siebe Deschepper | — | 45:06 | +22.6s | € 220 | 14 |
| 9 | Emiel Casteels | — | 45:07 | +23.5s | € 220 | 13 |
| 10 | Gilles Vermote | — | 45:08 | +24.2s | € 220 | 12 |
| 11 | Joppe Wauters | — | 45:08 | +24.4s | € 150 | 11 |
| 12 | Felipe Miralles | WC De Wieltjeszuigers | 45:13 | +29.1s | € 150 | 10 |
| 13 | Aaron Segers | — | 45:15 | +31.7s | € 150 | 9 |
| 14 | Maxime Moreau | — | 45:18 | +34.9s | € 150 | 8 |
| 15 | Matěj Veselý | — | 45:24 | +40.6s | € 150 | 7 |
| 16 | Gonzalo Miralles | — | 45:28 | +44.7s | € 150 | 6 |
| 17 | Mauro Vranken | — | 45:33 | +49.3s | € 150 | 5 |
| 18 | Sil Willems | — | 45:34 | +50.3s | € 150 | 4 |
| 19 | Nacho Iglesias | — | 45:41 | +57.4s | € 150 | 3 |
| 20 | Tuur Vanhee | — | 45:43 | +59.2s | € 150 | 2 |
| 21 | Tuur Verhoeven | — | 45:46 | +1:03 | € 90 | |
| 22 | Thibau Dierckx | — | 45:56 | +1:13 | € 90 | |
| 23 | Matěj Svoboda | — | 45:58 | +1:14 | € 90 | |
| 24 | Jelle Bruggeman | — | 46:04 | +1:21 | € 90 | |
| 25 | Maxime Rousseau | — | 46:06 | +1:23 | € 90 | |
| 26 | Ruben Geens | — | 46:09 | +1:26 | € 90 | |
| 27 | Toon Cuypers | — | 46:13 | +1:29 | € 90 | |
| 28 | Matěj Beneš | — | 46:17 | +1:34 | € 90 | |
| 29 | Lennert Verhoeven | — | 46:19 | +1:36 | € 90 | |
| 30 | Yann Perrin | — | 46:20 | +1:36 | € 90 | |
| 31 | Florian Bernard | — | 46:23 | +1:40 | ||
| 32 | Julien Perrin | — | 46:33 | +1:50 | ||
| 33 | Pau Solana | — | 46:33 | +1:50 | ||
| 34 | Sergi Bosch | — | 46:40 | +1:57 | ||
| 35 | Sil Coene | — | 46:40 Spare bike: punctured and changed bikes. | +1:57 | ||
| 36 | Yann Barbier | — | 46:47 | +2:03 |
Race report
46:47 Yann Barbier brings up the rear at 2 minutes. Everybody finished.
46:40 Sil Coene crosses the line 35th, at 1:57.
46:40 Sergi Bosch crosses the line 34th, at 1:57.
44:54 Simon Maes crosses the line 3rd, at 0:11.
44:53 Vic Vanacker crosses the line 2nd, at 0:10.
44:44 Lars Demeyer wins by 10 seconds.
44:30 Florian Barbier goes past Jakub Svoboda in the pit.
42:30 Corentin Renaud dives past Jakub Svoboda in the finishing straight.
42:00 Emiel Casteels takes Felipe Miralles back in the long straight.
41:21 Matěj Veselý slides out in the deep furrow and loses 11 seconds.
40:50 Half the field is running the slippery descent by now.
40:40 The pits are working flat out.
40:20 Dry and fast, and that makes it a long hour.
40:10 In the hairpin Yann Perrin gains a place on Sil Coene.
40:00 Tyre pressure is half the race today, and nobody is saying so.
39:50 Toon Cuypers had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Florian Bernard in the steep side.
39:40 Corentin Renaud dives past Felipe Miralles in the finishing straight.
39:20 The ground in the wet meadow has been ridden rock hard.
38:30 Lars Demeyer is out on their own at the front.
38:20 Siebe Deschepper is too quick for Matěj Veselý in the finishing straight and lies 14th now.
38:10 Nacho Iglesias takes the other line through the sequence of corners and comes out ahead of Thibau Dierckx.
37:10 On a dry course there is little to win in the corners; it has to come from the legs.
36:57 Lars Demeyer goes past Vic Vanacker and takes the lead.
36:50 Matěj Veselý takes the other line through the little bridge and comes out ahead of Aaron Segers.
36:40 Vic Vanacker has to let Felipe Miralles go in the hairpin.
34:40 Felipe Miralles takes Gilles Vermote back in the long straight.
33:50 Ride the hairpin instead of running it and you take half a second out of the rest every lap.
33:40 Sil Willems is too quick for Tuur Verhoeven in the slippery descent and lies 18th now.
33:10 All five are hunting a different line through the little climb at the back; none of them is finding the good one.
32:50 Felipe Miralles goes past Joppe Wauters in the finishing straight.
32:40 Corentin Renaud takes the other line through the hairpin and comes out ahead of Aaron Segers.
32:30 Hardly a bike change all day — there is nothing to wash off.
32:20 Matěj Beneš had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Sil Coene in the slippery descent.
31:50 The start straight is drying out on the side the sun is on.
31:30 The line through the mud strip is shifting; they are riding a metre off where they were a moment ago.
31:20 Simon Maes dives past Joppe Wauters in the start straight.
30:40 Dust over the finishing straight — there is no grip left in the corners.
30:30 Kasper Vandevelde has to let Felipe Miralles go in the steps.
30:10 Half the field is running the little bridge by now.
29:40 The line through the start straight has opened right up.
29:20 Vic Vanacker goes past Kasper Vandevelde and takes the lead.
29:20 In the sequence of corners Jakub Svoboda gains a place on Gilles Vermote.
28:30 With 3 up front, and Vic Vanacker on the front of it.
28:20 The sequence of corners is tearing itself apart; next lap it will be brutal in there.
27:00 There are holes in the line through the finishing straight that nobody is riding out any more.
26:50 The course is hard underneath; this is a day for anyone who can keep the power on.
26:40 The ground in the steps has been ridden rock hard.
26:30 Joppe Wauters moves up to 3rd at Kasper Vandevelde's expense.
26:23 Florian Bernard slides out in the start straight and loses 6 seconds.
25:40 The entrance to the sequence of corners is littered with abandoned bikes.
24:30 The start straight is costing a few seconds more every lap.
23:10 It is dusting up in the mud strip; anyone at the back is riding in a cloud.
22:50 Jelle Bruggeman goes past Lennert Verhoeven in the steep side.
22:40 Lars Demeyer is too quick for Emiel Casteels in the mud strip and lies 4th now.
22:20 The gap to the first chaser is 6 seconds.
21:52 Kasper Vandevelde goes past Jakub Svoboda and takes the lead.
20:40 Simon Maes takes the other line through the start straight and comes out ahead of Maxime Moreau.
20:30 Mauro Vranken is too quick for Aaron Segers in the slippery descent and lies 13th now.
20:10 It is getting harder through the little bridge with every lap that goes by.
20:00 The sand in the wide section is loose and deep — that is where the hour will be decided.
19:50 Joppe Wauters had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Jakub Svoboda in the deep furrow.
19:10 Sil Coene dives past Ruben Geens in the wide section.
18:50 Dry and dusty, and by the end you cannot tell who is who.
18:20 Gilles Vermote takes Vic Vanacker back in the mud strip.
18:10 In the deep furrow Simon Maes gains a place on Matěj Veselý.
18:00 Vic Vanacker has to let Emiel Casteels go in the deep furrow.
17:30 The deep furrow is drying out on the side the sun is on.
16:40 The lines are fixed on a course this dry; they are all riding the same rut.
16:20 Dry and fast, and that makes it a long hour.
16:10 Up front Felipe Miralles goes past Lars Demeyer — 1st now.
15:00 Vic Vanacker takes Jelle Bruggeman back in the slippery descent.
14:50 All five are hunting a different line through the wide section; none of them is finding the good one.
14:31 Jakub Svoboda goes past Gonzalo Miralles and takes the lead.
14:20 The ground in the long straight has been ridden rock hard.
13:10 Matěj Veselý goes past Vic Vanacker in the off-camber.
12:50 The line through the wide section has opened right up.
12:20 The deep furrow is costing a few seconds more every lap.
11:50 Dust over the wide section — there is no grip left in the corners.
11:12 Sil Coene punctures in the finishing straight, changes bike and loses 6 seconds.
10:30 Sil Willems takes the other line through the hurdles and comes out ahead of Simon Maes.
10:20 Hardly a bike change all day — there is nothing to wash off.
9:30 Corentin Renaud has to let Lars Demeyer go in the start straight.
9:10 On a dry course there is little to win in the corners; it has to come from the legs.
9:00 Maxime Moreau is too quick for Gilles Vermote in the wide section and lies 9th now.
8:50 Jelle Bruggeman had been sitting on the wheel a while and goes past Mauro Vranken in the long straight.
8:20 Felipe Miralles dives past Gonzalo Miralles in the start straight.
7:10 Gonzalo Miralles takes the lead.
7:00 With 3 up front, and Gonzalo Miralles on the front of it.
6:20 A front group of 3, and they are watching each other.
5:50 The mud strip is getting looser with every lap.
5:10 The pits are working flat out.
4:40 The wide section is drying out on the side the sun is on.
4:30 A day for racing on the pedals; there is nothing to slide away.
3:50 Dry and dusty, and by the end you cannot tell who is who.
3:30 The lines are fixed on a course this dry; they are all riding the same rut.
3:10 The line through the mud strip is shifting; they are riding a metre off where they were a moment ago.
2:40 There is 4 seconds on the clock behind the leaders.
1:40 There are holes in the line through the sequence of corners that nobody is riding out any more.
1:30 Dry and fast, and that makes it a long hour.
1:10 Ride the off-camber instead of running it and you take half a second out of the rest every lap.
0:40 The sand in the finishing straight is loose and deep — that is where the hour will be decided.
0:30 Tyre pressure is half the race today, and nobody is saying so.
0:20 Hardly a bike change all day — there is nothing to wash off.
0:10 The field is still all together at the front.
0:00 Scheldeboord: dry course, 6 laps. Mostly mud and power.