Arvid de Klijn sprints to glory at the GP de Fourmies

The victory marks De Kleijn’s first in almost a year, with his most recent triumph coming at the Tour de Langkawi last October

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The day’s breakaway was caught 35km from the line, with Javier Serrano (Polti-VisitMalta) the strongest of the group and the final survivor of the five-man move.

From there, it was always going to be a sprint finish given the nature of the course and multiple teams interested in a bunch finish. That didn’t put off several attackers, including Clément Dubois (Van Rysel Roubaix), Florian Sénéchal (Alpecin-Premier Tech), and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), however.

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In the end, none of the attacks managed to get clear of the surging peloton, and so it was teams including Soudal-QuickStep and Uno-X Mobility who led the way to the line for the sprint finish.

A crash in the peloton 400 metres from the line didn’t disrupt those at the very front, including De Kleijn, who possessed the fastest finish from a large group to take his 19th career victoryt

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