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Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) lived up to his status as the overwhelming favorite to win this year’s Baloise Tour of Belgium, after claiming the 4th and final stage – to secure the overall race title.
After his BMC team had blown the race to pieces, Van Avermaet launched a powerful attack during the final kilometer, which proved to be enough to open up a slight advantage to narrowly hold off a fast-finishing Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal), who was second in both the stage and the overall.
Top 10 Finishers
1 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 4:57:44 2 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:10 4 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:33 5 Gaetan Bille (Bel) Verandas Willems Cycling Team 0:00:39 6 Alexander Foliforov (Rus) RusVelo 0:00:44 7 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:26 8 Nicolas Vereecken (Bel) Team 3M 9 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha 10 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling
General Classification
1 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 18:01:16 2 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:41 3 Gaetan Bille (Bel) Verandas Willems Cycling Team 0:00:56 4 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:28 5 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:01:49 6 Mathieu Van Der Poel 0:01:59 7 Oliver Naesen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise 0:02:02 8 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:02:13 9 Huub Duijn (Ned) Team Roompot 0:02:15 10 Frederik Backaert (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 0:02:17
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