UK Youth’s Chris Opie was 12th in the Arno Wallard Memorial road race in Holland on Saturday after a 200 kilometre race covered at 45kph
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The race was won by Dylan Van Baarle who finished six seconds clear of four man group which in turn was ten seconds clear of the peloton where Opie was sixth in the bunch kick. Chris didn’t have much to say afterwards except, “Such a beautiful race. Such a disappointing result”.
The event marked the first race back for Magnus Backstedt since February and the former winner of Paris Roubaix did well in such a fast race to finish at two minutes. Afterwards he admitted “well, that was hard on only a weeks training. 200k – 45kph average. Feeling a bit crispy now. Loved it. So nice to have a number on my back!”
RESULT
1 Dylan Van Baarle Rabobank Continental Team 4:23:08
2 Jesper Asselman Team Raiko РSțlting 0:06
3 Daan Meijers Parkhotel Valkenburg Cycling Team @ same time
4 Justin Van Hoecke Wallonie Bruxelles РCr̩dit Agricole @ same time
5 Carolus Jorne Lotto – Ridley Espoirs @ same time
6 Danny Van Poppel Rabobank Continental Team 0:16
7 Niels Reynvoet Lotto – Ridley Espoirs @ same time
8 Steve Sketch Jong Vlaanderen – Bauknecht @ same time
9 Maarten Van Trijp Lotto – Ridley Espoirs @ same time
10 Michael Kurth Eddy Merckx – Indeland @ same time
12 Christopher Opie Uk Youth Team @ same time
39 Yanto Barker Uk Youth Team @ same time
92 Christopher Stevenson Uk Youth Team @ same time
93 Magnus Backstedt Uk Youth Team @ same time
