{"id":435726,"date":"2026-01-25T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:16:10","slug":"results-maasmechelen-world-cup-puck-pieterse-wins-womens-race-whilst-lucinda-brand-loses-historic-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435726\/","title":{"rendered":"Results Maasmechelen World Cup | Puck Pieterse wins women’s race whilst Lucinda Brand loses historic streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Maasmechelen World Cup <\/a>has delivered high-octane action today in the women’s race as for the first time in years, Lucinda Brand<\/a> did not manage to finish on the podium, and neither did Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, which opened way for other riders to take the spotlight. Puck Pieterse<\/a> grabbed this opportunity with both hands and took her second win of the season.The track was dry and the start was very fast. Maasmechelen is a race marked by its steep banks and constant turns and accelerations, making it more convenient for the more technical riders whilst also making it more difficult to make recoveries after a bad start. Gaps quickly began to emerge, with Leonie Bentveld taking the holeshot and Marie Schreiber having a badly-timed mechanical, whilst Lucinda Brand<\/a> had a bad start.At the end of lap 2 Puck Pieterse<\/a> led the race with a small gap over Fouquenet, Blanka Kata Vas and Sara Casasola. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado was 1 seconds down and Lucinda Brand<\/a> was 25 down, in a surprising 10th position. The duo gained positions throughout the race however the victory seemed to be a battle between two other riders, as Fouquenet caught up with Pieterse on lap 5, but then punctured right after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maasmechelen World Cup has delivered high-octane action today in the women’s race as for the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[199439,64,63,784,124089,166194,165117,6654,85,227470],"class_list":["post-435726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-amandine-fouquenet","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-cyclocross","tag-lucinda-brand","tag-puck-pieterse","tag-results","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-maasmechelen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}