Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne results: Kasper Asgreen holds on to score solo win

Danish professional Kasper Asgreen entered the last kilometre with eight seconds in hand on the peloton and kept his lead as he soloed to victory at the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in Kuurne today.

Giacomo Nizzolo (NTT Pro Cycling) beat Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) to second.

Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-QuickStep) settled for fourth place. Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), who won yesterday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, completed the top five.

Earlier in the race, the main breakaway consisted of Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Norwegian Development Team), Roy Jans (Alpecin-Fenix), Hugo Houle (Astana) and Boris Vallee (Bingoal-Wallonie Bruxelles).

Asgreen was the first from the peloton to make his way across to the leaders, with 30km left to race. Only Jans and Vallee could hold his wheel.

The trio remained together until Asgreen piled on the pressure, which resulted in Jans losing contact.

Asgreen also proved too strong for his only remaining breakaway companion, Vallee, ultimately crossing the line first.

“It’s definitely the biggest victory of my career. Taking a classic is so important, because when I turned pro, I had the goal of developing myself into a classics-type of rider, and to win this hard but beautiful race, just two years into my pro career, means so much to me,” said Asgreen.

“We had such an incredible start of the season and we hope to rack up many more solid results.”

View more results below:

Results

1	Kasper Asgreen	DEN	Deceuninck-QuickStep	4:47:18
2	Giacomo Nizzolo	ITA	NTT	+0:00:03
3	Alexander Kristoff	NOR	UAE Team Emirates
4	Fabio Jakobsen	NED	Deceuninck-QuickStep
5	Jasper Stuyven	BEL	Trek-Segafredo
6	Hugo Hofstetter	FRA	Israel Start-Up Nation
7	Sonny Colbrelli	ITA	Bahrain-Mclaren
8	Ben Swift	GBR	Team Ineos
9	Dries van Gestel	BEL	Total Direct Energie
10	Jurgen Roelandts	BEL	Movistar Team

*Selected

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Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

RSA

NTT Pro Cycling

+0:04:15