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World champion van Aert and Antonneau win at Trek CXC Cup on Day 2

Organizers hope the event will be promoted to the World Cup circuit in the future

Day two of the Trek CXC Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin was host to world class racing on day two with hot weather and sunny skies greeting the racers. The word around the venue and from Trek president John Burke was that the organizers hope the event will become a World Cup stop ahead of Vegas and Iowa in the future. World champion Wout van Aert was impressed with the organization and fans at the Waterloo venue.

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Increased points and prize money were on the line and so top riders joined the already impressive fields from day one. American rider, Stephen Hyde was second at last year’s nationals and had several breakthrough world cup races in Europe in 2015. He raced Sunday after his Friday flight was canceled resulting in him missing the action on Saturday. Canadian Michael van dem Ham had a very impressive ride Saturday finishing in eighth.

Compton was forced to run
Compton was forced to run after breaking her chain

The women’s race started off the day with Caroline Mani of France joining the competitive women’s field. Canadian Maghalie Rochette was not on the start line today after leaving Saturday’s race early, she chose to recover in anticipation of Wednesday’s CrossVegas World Cup.  The first lap had a large lead group featuring all the main contenders until several attacks including a significant early dig by Mani, separated the group with last year’s winner Kaitie Antonneau, Katie Compton, Ellen Noble and Ellen Van Looy. The group stayed together for the first few laps until Compton attacked and extended a sizeable lead over Mani, Noble and Antonneau. An untimely broken chain on lap three left Compton running to the pits as the top four women continued on. Mani then went on the attack holding a gap for much of the race until she crashed and gave up the lead to Antonneau who would go on to win. Noble finished second after narrowing the gap to Antonneau on the last lap. Mani, who was very aggressive throughout the race settled for third.

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World champion Wout van Aert would take a comfortable win

World champion van Aert, U.S. national champion Jeremy Powers and Hyde joined in the already stacked field of North American and European racers for the C1 event with its increased points and prize money. A front-line of Telenet-Fidea racers created a difficult force to overcome for North American racers used to starting in the first or second row. After a heated first lap of digs from European racers, Quinten Hermans eventually went clear. Hyde made it to the wheel of the world champion to form a chase group. Jeremy Powers did not finish after two crashes early in the race.

As lap three finished, the chase group caught Hermans with Hyde now trailing the lead group slightly in fifth with Saturday’s winner, Chainel of France in sixth. In the final quarter of race van Aert broke away leaving a three-man Telenet Fidea chase group along with Hyde and Chainel in his wake. Van Aert comfortably rolled across the line in first followed by Telenet riders Jim Aernouts and Quinten Hermans. In fourth was American Stephen Hyde of Cannondale.

Results are available at https://livelynxresults.com/ and replays at www.trekbikes.com