2014 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's under-23 race

April 2026 Men's Under-23 Cyclo-cross Race 2014 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships Jersey_rainbow.svg 150 Rainbow jersey 2014 02 02 yes 1 20.4 km 49' 35" medals Wout Van Aert Belgium Michael Vanthourenhout Belgium Mathieu van der Poel Netherlands 2013 2015 This event was held on 2 February 2014 as part of the 2014 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships at Hoogerheide, Netherlands. Participants must be men born in 1992 to 1995 and men in this age range must participate in this category.Riders Categories http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTI1OTk&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=OTE0OTU&LangId=1 Competitions Guide UCI 2 February 2014 PDF January 2014 4 It was won by Wout Van Aert of Belgium.Van Aert schenkt België 2e titel na onemanshow http://www.sporza.be/permalink/1.1854071 Sporza 2 February 2014 Dutch 2 February 2014 Race report Toon Aerts of Belgium, whose brother Thijs Aerts had become World Champion in the Junior's category the day before, was the first to attack and break open the race. He never got particularly far though. Immediately after that Wout Van Aert, also of Belgium and one of the two favourites for the title, took over the attack and managed to create a gap of about ten seconds. By the end of the first lap he had an advantage of 17 seconds on a group of five riders with in it that other big favourite for the rainbow jersey: Mathieu van der Poel of Netherlands. Lap two saw more expanding of the gap, partially due to good stopping work in the chasing group of other Belgians Aerts, Michael Vanthourenhout and Laurens Sweeck. By the end of it Vanthourenhout had broken away from that group, getting about ten seconds ahead of them. In the third lap the Belgian dominance grew as Sweeck dropped the others as well. Van Aert finished that lap 34 seconds ahead of Vanthourenhout and 56 seconds ahead of Sweeck. A group of Van der Poel, Aerts and Stan Godrie (Netherlands) followed on a minute of Van Aert. The Dutchmen couldn't keep up with Aerts who then managed to join up with Sweeck. In the background David van der Poel passed his brother Mathieu, even more evidence of the off-day Mathieu experienced. Mathieu found his second wind and managed to catch up to the two Belgians. At the start of the last lap it was clear these three would be the contenders for the bronze medal. In a strong uphill section Van der Poel dropped the two Belgians and secured his bronze medal. Results Rank Cyclist Time Image:gold medal icon.svg Wout van Aert BEL 49' 35" Image:silver medal icon.svg Michael Vanthourenhout BEL + 50" Image:bronze medal icon.svg Mathieu van der Poel NED + 1' 17" 4 Laurens Sweeck BEL + 1' 20" 5 Toon Aerts BEL + 1' 26" 6 David van der Poel NED + 2' 09" 7 David Menut FRA + 2' 24" 8 Tomas Paprstka CZE + 2' 37" 9 Gert-Jan Bosman NED + 2' 38" 10 Gianni Vermeersch BEL + 2' 45" References Men's under-23 race Category:UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's under-23 race