{"id":416125,"date":"2026-02-09T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:24:19","slug":"superprestige-middelkerke-michael-vanthourenhout-returns-to-victory-after-missing-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416125\/","title":{"rendered":"Superprestige Middelkerke: Michael Vanthourenhout returns to victory after missing Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"28908668-dd3e-432a-b9f1-6b067f9b92bb\">Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen &#8211; Altez Industriebouw) claimed his first cyclo-cross victory since early December in the Superprestige round in Middelkerke.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian held off a chase by series leader Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Premier Tech) to take the win. Vanthourenhout&#8217;s teammate Gerben Kuypers was third.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"28908668-dd3e-432a-b9f1-6b067f9b92bb-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Early in the race, the lead was held by Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ridley) and Kuypers but Vanthourenhout attacked to join his teammate, leaving the Dutchman behind.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Vandeputte finally caught the duo in the closing lap and left Kuypers behind to take second and the overall series.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p id=\"64ae9cb1-3008-4a0f-ac00-29394065945d\">Results powered by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">FirstCycling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-fb3e18c7-c6cc-44ce-bfa4-0dc8127799f8\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen &#8211; Altez Industriebouw) claimed his first cyclo-cross victory since early December in the Superprestige&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}