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Finn Crockett has taken his second major victory in a matter of weeks, after a bad crash kept him out of action for months at the start of the season (Photo: Johan Rozenberg)<\/p>\nFinn Crockett has taken his second major victory in a matter of weeks, after a bad crash kept him out of action for months at the start of the season (Photo: Johan Rozenberg)<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s Finn Crockett (VolkerWessels Cycling Team) has taken his second UCI-ranked win of the season, saying it was \u201ca great feeling\u201d to win two big races especially after a bad crash at the start of the year kept him out of action for months.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was best today in the Netherlands at Slag om Norg (1.2), a brutally hard 166.3km race run over seven laps in Norg with two gravel sectors back-to-back on the circuit.<\/p>\n
Crockett got away in a small group on the second lap and, though they still had a long way to go, they really pressed home their advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were all on the limit, we were out front all day,\u201d Crockett said of coming to the finish for a sprint to decide the victory at the end of a very hard day out over the gravel sectors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a hard day out front and it just comes down to that tiny percentage at the end and luckily I had it today. So I\u2019m really happy to pull it off for myself and the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a really tough year, I had a bad accident at the start of the year, it was two days before the season was supposed to start. And I couldn\u2019t start properly racing until about May-June.\u201d<\/p>\n
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2 Magnus Bak Klaris 1.46 op 2 achtervolgers. 3 min op het peloton. Nog \ud83d\udee3\ufe0f 50 kilometer.#SlagomNorg<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ktqKwLobV4<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Courage Events (@CourageEvents) August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Crockett won the four-up sprint today from Dutch riders Rick Ottema (Diftar Continental Cyclingteam) and Axel van der Tuuk (Metec-SOLARWATT p\/b Mantel), with Dane Magnus Bak Klaris (AIRTOX-Carl Ras) in 4th.<\/p>\n His victory follows his general classification win at Kreiz Breizh Elites (2.2) in France three weeks ago when he snatched the final yellow jersey with a brilliant ride on the last stage.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve done this race and I hadn\u2019t done the sectors previous to this,\u201d he said. \u201cI went in blind to this race and the first lap was chaotic.<\/p>\n \u201cI managed to slip away with a group on lap two and, to be honest, it made the race quite smooth, especially on the twisty turny course. It was good being in a small group, we could keep the speed quite high. It was just survival on the gravel but it was great fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Crockett added while the breakaway went away very early in the race, he immediately felt confident once he saw the composition of the group.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew the riders I was with, I knew how strong they were so I had a good feeling about it going far into the race and it did, it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n Finn Crockett wint Slag om Norg pic.twitter.com\/kiQ2xbpc1R<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CyclingOnline.nl (@cyclingonlineNL) August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t
24 Lars Loohuis
42 @rickottema<\/a>
77 Axel van der Tuuk
96 Luke Verburg
111 Finn Crockett <\/p>\n