Felipe Orts touches the podium on the muddy Niel Superprestige cyclocross circuit and the British Cameron Mason achieves a historic victory

On a beautiful circuit that had almost everything that a cyclocross track should have, today the third round of the prestigious event of the Superprestigestill without some of the main names that are on everyone’s mind, such as Van Aert either Pidcock. On a muddy and sticky course, the victory went to the British cyclist Cameron Masonthe first he has achieved outside his country, where last year he was proclaimed British CX champion.

It was a race, given the state of the floor, full of incidents. Wyseure suffered a puncture, Kuhn He had to go through the pits and he also kissed the mud Vanthourenhout.

The race did not win for scares, but Mason He attacked at the right time and made no mistake in the decisive stretch. He faced the last lap with three seconds ahead of the second place, Wyseureand in the sand area was when he finished finishing off the race.

For a moment it seemed that Orts could hunt Nieuwenhuis and get on the podium, but in the end it was not like that, equaling his best result outside of Spain this season, after the 4th achieved in the HG Gross Heerderstrand.

In this way, Mason achieved his eighth professional victory, the first for a Briton in the Superprestigio since Pidcock in 2022and went on to lead the Superprestigio classification with 54 points, with Felipe Orts which is fourth with 43.

Victory in the junior women’s category for the Belgian Lentel Huysin men’s junior for the also Belgian Andreas Aerts and in the female elite for the Dutch Manon Bakker.