Eneco Tour: Mick van Dijke nets maiden pro win as Victor Campenaerts moves into race lead on breathless stage 3

As a tough 110.5km route from Sittard to Watersley welcomed the remaining riders on race day four at the Eneco Tour, a four-rider break found themselves up the road after two laps of the circuit: Rutsch, Thierry, Jesse Kramer (BEAT CC p/b Saxo), and Rick Ottema (EEW-VDK Cyclingteam)

With 33km to go, four became seven as Hartthijs de Vries (Unibet Rose Rockets), Van Dijke, and Campenaerts attacked across the gap, with the latter’s presence – having started the day just 29 seconds down on Söderqvist – forcing Lidl-Trek to chase in the peloton with two reps of the four hills still to come.

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With 30km to go, Soudal-QuickStep started to accelerate, first with Tim Merlier, who was setting up an attack for Pepijn Reinderink. Quickly, Söderqvist found himself going backwards and struggling, but the riders at the front of the peloton began to mark each other as no one was able to get away.

The break started to fracture with the peloton breathing down their necks on the fourth and penultimate time up the Windraak, but the five who remained in front maintained their lead of just under 25 seconds heading into the last lap.

As Söderqvist was fully dropped in the last 20km, struggling to hold the wheels, Campenaerts started making his bid for the overall lead in front, taking the maximum six bonus seconds at the Red Bull KM and then attacking with 18km to go from the break.

Van Dijke was able to go with the Belgian, making it a leading duo in front of the first chase group containing fourth-place on GC Mouris, 21 seconds back, a second group containing Fisher-Black at 43 seconds back, and the peloton containing Söderqvist back at 1:01 heading into the final 10km.

With racing split all over the road, Fisher-Black launched an attack into the last 5.5km, but he was followed by Menno Huising (Visma-Lease a Bike) and the rest of the chasing group he was already in. Soon after, the Kiwi moved across the road and caused Huising – who was looking back at the group – to crash out of the chase.

They made no real impression on the leading duo, though; he entered the final kilometre after Campenaerts had done the lion’s share of the work. Van Dijke won the uphill sprint for his maiden success, with the rest of the GC hopefuls coming home behind new orange jersey Campenaerts in dribs and drabs.

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Position

Rider (Country) Team

Time Gap

1

Mick Van Dijke (Ned) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

2:25:52

2

Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:00:01

3

Jonas Rutsch (Ger) Lotto-Intermarché

+0:00:09

4

Pierre Thierry (Fra) Totalenergies

+0:00:10

5

Wessel Mouris (Ned) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:00:13

6

Jochem Kerckhaert (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:00:33

7

Milan Lanhove (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:00:33

8

Tomáš Kopecký (Cze) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:00:33

9

Finn Fisher-Black (NZl) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

+0:00:33

10

Steffen De Schuyteneer (Bel) Lotto-Intermarché

+0:00:35

11

Paul Conor (Fra) Totalenergies

+0:00:35

12

Simon Goossens (Bel) Alpecin-Premier Tech

+0:00:39

13

Hartthijs De Vries (Ned) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:00:44

14

David Dekker (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:00:58

15

Florian Sénéchal (Fra) Alpecin-Premier Tech

+0:00:58

16

Christophe Laporte (Fra) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:00:58

17

Lukáš Kubiš (Svk) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:00:58

18

Pepijn Reinderink (Ned) Soudal-QuickStep

+0:00:58

19

Florian Dauphin (Fra) Totalenergies

+0:01:03

20

Davide Donati (Ita) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

+0:01:03

21

Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:01:13

22

Nolan Huysmans (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:01:22

23

Roy Hoogendoorn (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:01:24

24

Tuur Verbeeck (Bel) Lotto-Intermarché

+0:01:26

25

Bert Bolle (Bel) Volkerwessels

+0:01:26

26

Danijel Agricola (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:01:26

27

Sente Sentjens (Bel) Alpecin-Premier Tech

+0:01:26

28

Leander Van Hautegem (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:01:26

29

Mike Bronswijk (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:01:26

30

Julius Van Den Berg (Ned) Picnic PostNL

+0:01:26

31

Otto Van Zanden (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg

+0:01:26

32

Michiel Mouris (Ned) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

+0:01:32

33

Jesse Kramer (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:01:32

34

Pavel Bittner (Cze) Picnic PostNL

+0:01:34

35

Jakob Söderqvist (Swe) Lidl-Trek

+0:01:34

36

Rick Ottema (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:01:36

37

Ethan Edward Hayter (GBr) Soudal-QuickStep

+0:01:42

38

Roan Konings (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:01:45

39

Edward Theuns (Bel) Lidl-Trek

+0:03:18

40

Steijn Oosterveld (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg

+0:04:38

41

Menno Huising (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:04:40

42

Pietro Mattio (Ita) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:04:40

43

Thomas Monkelbaan (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:04:58

44

Victor Vercouillie (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:04:58

45

Bram Dissel (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:04:58

46

Niek Voogt (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg

+0:04:58

47

Chiel Schulten (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:04:58

48

Robbe Claeys (Bel) Volkerwessels

+0:06:00

49

Marijn Maas (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:06:00

50

Thor Verleysen (Bel) Volkerwessels

+0:06:00

51

Sebastian Grindley (GBr) Lidl-Trek Future Racing

+0:06:00

52

Joeri Schaper (Ned) Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team

+0:06:00

53

Sebastian Putz (Aut) Red Bull- Bora- Hansgrohe Rookies

+0:06:00

54

Gijs Schoonvelde (Ned) Red Bull- Bora- Hansgrohe Rookies

+0:06:00

55

Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Picnic PostNL

+0:06:00

56

Ferre Geeraerts (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:06:00

57

Benedikt Benz (Ger) Lidl-Trek Future Racing

+0:06:00

58

Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:06:00

59

Siebe Deweirdt (Bel) Team Flanders- Baloise

+0:06:00

60

Gerben Thijssen (Bel) Alpecin-Premier Tech

+0:06:00

61

Nicola Marcerou (Fra) Totalenergies

+0:06:00

62

Finn Crockett (Irl) Volkerwessels

+0:06:00

63

Alan Jousseaume (Fra) Totalenergies

+0:06:00

64

Tim Naberman (Ned) Picnic PostNL

+0:06:00

65

Max Kroonen (Ned) Beat Cc P/B Saxo

+0:06:00

66

Elmar Reinders (Ned) Unibet Rose Rockets

+0:06:00

67

Taco Van Der Hoorn (Ned) Lotto-Intermarché

+0:06:00

68

Tim Merlier (Bel) Soudal-QuickStep

+0:06:00

69

Ceriel Desal (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team

+0:06:00

70

Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (Ned) Lotto-Intermarché

+0:06:00

71

Tars Poelvoorde (Bel) Lotto- Groupe Wanty

+0:06:00

72

Rik Van Der Wal (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:06:08

73

Jarne Van De Ven (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:06:30

74

Mattanja Woets (Ned) Volkerwessels

+0:06:36

75

Hugo Paats (Ned) Eew-Vdk Cyclingteam

+0:06:42

76

Bert Van Lerberghe (Bel) Soudal-QuickStep

+0:06:44

77

Julian Vergouw (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:06:44

78

Edoardo Affini (Ita) Visma-Lease a Bike

+0:06:44

79

Johan Dorussen (Ned) Metec- Solarwatt P/B Mantel

+0:06:44

80

Kristian Egholm (Den) Lidl-Trek Future Racing

+0:06:44

81

Siebe Roesems (Bel) Alpecin-Premier Tech Development Team

+0:08:55