vile cyclist Felipe Orts He finished tenth at the Cyclocross World Championships held this Sunday in Tabor (Czech Republic) and thus career-best result at the world’s best event in the discipline.
Felipe Orts started well and remained in the top 11 throughout the race, riding most of the race in the group of four fighting for seventh place. The final lap sealed the margins and placed the Spaniard in tenth place. Only the Czech Boros and Orts could enter the ‘Top15’, which is dominated by the Belgians and the Dutch..
“I had been trying to get into the ‘top 10’ for years, but I couldn’t do it, and the truth is I was happy. We wanted to be ranked higher, but we were aiming to be in the top 10 in terms of level.” Existing… It’s a great result to finish the season; I am very happy and satisfied with the race, which was quite challenging.“, the man from Alicante commented in statements published by the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC).
This is Orts’ seventh participation in the Elite category of the cyclocross world championship: 20th in 2018 (Netherlands), 12th in 2019 (Denmark), 14th in 2020 (Switzerland), 26th in 2021 (Belgium), 2022 12th in (United States of America), 19th in 2023 (Netherlands) and 10th in 2024 (Czech Republic). He won the silver medal in the under-23 category at an event held in Luxembourg in 2017, where Dutchman Joris Nieuwenhuis beat him this Sunday.
Van der Poel is unbeatable
The Dutch, for their part, Mathieu van der Poel wins his sixth title – for the second consecutive – cyclocross world champion, this time ahead of compatriot Joris Nieuwenhuis and Belgian Michael Vanthourenhout.
Van der Poel added this crown to the titles he won in 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. And there is only one title left for the World Championship’s most successful cyclist, seven-time champion Erik De Vlaeminck of Belgium. In 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973.
The current road world champion, the Dutchman, fulfilled his role as favorite at Tabor in the absence of Belgian Wout van Aert and Englishman Tom Pidcock. Van der Poel, who won his eleventh World Cup gold for the Netherlands in this race, quickly rose to the solo leadership and managed to win easily without pushing his advantage.