{"id":445407,"date":"2026-01-31T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445407\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:41:07","slug":"cyclo-cross-world-championships-lucinda-brand-soloes-to-second-career-elite-womens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445407\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclo-cross World Championships: Lucinda Brand soloes to second career elite women&#8217;s title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"9b2275e2-1bae-4589-937a-a96588c81dd9\">Lucinda Brand (Netherlands) clinched her second rainbow jersey following a determined <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tag\/performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performance<\/a> in the elite women\u2019s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/uci-cyclo-cross-world-championships\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/uci-cyclo-cross-world-championships\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/uci-cyclo-cross-world-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships<\/a> in Hulst.<\/p>\n<p>Brand was pushed all the way for victory as Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado finished second, 27 seconds behind, while Puck Pieterse completed a Netherlands podium sweep with third.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"9b2275e2-1bae-4589-937a-a96588c81dd9-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">A four-time cyclo-cross World Championships silver medallist, Brand finally repeated her success from Oostende in 2021 following a dominant season.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Pieterse and Alvarado both posed questions of their countrywoman in the early stages, before Brand showed her power to force a gap. The pressure resulted in Pieterse crashing heavily on a descent, only for Brand to crash herself as Alvarado pulled level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">However, Brand was not to be denied a second world title and had time to lift her bike in triumph at taking the victory. Alvarado was able to enjoy second, while Pieterse came out of a large group to clinch third.<\/p>\n<p>The win was made even sweeter as Brand\u2019s world championships build-up had been far from perfect after suffering a minor calf injury last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p id=\"3a08ff88-943e-4199-9414-5a9300025a47\">Results powered by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FirstCycling<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-589b55fd-16d3-4d69-8e1a-0a9395f6b368\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucinda Brand (Netherlands) clinched her second rainbow jersey following a determined performance in the elite women\u2019s UCI Cyclo-cross&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-445407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}