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But the Slovenian pulled away with a race-winning attack on the final ascent of the Oude Kwaremont with around 15km to go and cruised along the flat roads to a solo victory.<\/p>\n
The chasing pack sprinted for the remaining medal positions with Belgian Wout van Aert missing out on a podium finish. <\/p>\n
In the women’s race, Belgian Lotte Kopecky made history as the first cyclist to win three editions of the event. <\/p>\n
Riding for Team SD Worx, the 29-year-old claimed victory in thrilling style by winning a four-way sprint finish ahead of France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, Liane Lippert of Germany and Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney. <\/p>\n
“It was a crazy race with a lot of crashes in the beginning,” said Kopecky. “When it went with the four of us I was pretty confident.”<\/p>\n
Italian rider Elisa Longo Borghini was among the favourites with Kopecky and also chasing a third Tour of Flanders title, but had to withdraw after crashing around 95km from the finish.<\/p>\n
Around 750,000 spectators gathered on the streets from Bruges to Oudenaarde for the event, which is one of five one-day races in the cycling calendar known as the Monuments.<\/p>\n
The others are Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix, the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Tour of Lombardy.<\/p>\n
On 13 April, Pogacar will be taking part on more cobbled tracks for the Paris-Roubaix race – known as ‘hell of the north’ – for the first time, where Van der Poel is again the defending champion.<\/p>\n
“Roubaix is a completely different race, but I will accept the challenge and try to do my best,” added Pogacar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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