{"id":8673,"date":"2026-02-28T23:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/van-der-poel-vollering-earn-omloop-het-nieuwsblad-wins\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:20:04","slug":"van-der-poel-vollering-earn-omloop-het-nieuwsblad-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/van-der-poel-vollering-earn-omloop-het-nieuwsblad-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Van der Poel &amp; Vollering earn Omloop het Nieuwsblad wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published24 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mathieu van der Poel powered to victory in the Omloop het Nieuwsblad men&#x27;s race, while Dutch compatriot Demi Vollering was the women&#x27;s winner at an event that marks the start of the &#x27;cobbled classics&#x27; season.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) was making his debut in the race and broke clear of a breakaway on a cobbled climb with just over 16km left of the 207.2km run, showing the legs to stay in front and win by 22 seconds in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>In rainy conditions, Dutchman Tim van Dijke (Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe) finished second after outsprinting Belgium&#x27;s Florian Vermeersch, who was third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cqxyver722wo\">Van der Poel recently set a new record<\/a> as he won his eighth world cyclo-cross title at Hulst in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday&#x27;s race, Great Britain&#x27;s Tom Pidcock was two minutes and nine minutes adrift of the winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#x27;s race, Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) beat Poland&#x27;s Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon\/Sram Zondacrypto) in a two-way sprint for the line.<\/p>\n<p>It was Vollering&#x27;s first win in the event and she can add it to victories at the 2023 Tour de France Femmes and two wins at the Vuelta Femenina.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a bit my own expectations that I would do it, but still to do it makes me proud,&quot; said Vollering.<\/p>\n<p>Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands was third in the 137km race, while Great Britain&#x27;s Cat Ferguson was fourth and compatriot Millie Couzens was eighth.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/cycling\">Cycling<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van der Poel &amp; Vollering earn Omloop het Nieuwsblad winsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Dutch riders Van der Poel and Vollering celebrate their wins at the Omloop het NieuwsbladPublished2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}