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Pundits and former professionals have been full of praise for Eritrea's Biniam Girmay after his historic Gent-Wevelgem classic win. The 21-year-old became the first Eritrean to win a World Tour race on Sunday. Ad/> Riding for Intermarch-Wanty Gobert, Girmay beat off competition from usual suspects in Jumbo Visma's Christophe Laporte and TotalEnergies' Dires Van Gestel.
With the first half of so-called Flanders Week done and dusted, the scene is set perfectly for Wednesday’s Dwars van Vlaanderen, the last race before the showpiece finale on the weekend: the Tour of Flanders. On top of Biniam Girmay’s emphatic Gent-Wevelgem win in front of his adopted home crowds in Belgium, a busy weekend of cycling action also included the conclusion of the Volta a Catalunya.
Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay has become the first man from his nation to win one of cycling's cobbled classics by taking out the prestigious Gent-Wevelgem race on Sunday.
Tom Pidcock has said he is no nearer to getting to the bottom of his digestive issues, and says it is hindering him towards the end of races. The Ineos Grenadiers rider was a surprise entrant at Gent-Wavelgem, and showed up well before fading late in the race to come home in 67th. Ad/> Pidcock arrived in Belgium after missing Strade Bianche and being forced to abandon Milan-San Remo due to digestive problems.
Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) held off the late challenge of Marianne Vos (Jumbo Visma) in a bunch sprint to win the women’s race at Gent-Wevelgem. Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Ceratizit-WNT) came through in third to complete the podium. Ad/> It was Balsamo’s third win in a row having triumphed in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and Classic Brugge-De Panne earlier in the month.
Biniam Girmay made history as the first African cyclist to win a one-day classic as he triumphed in the Gent-Wevelgem on Sunday.
PARIS: Biniam Girmay of Eritrea won the prestigious Gent Wevelgem on Sunday (Mar 27), becoming the first African cyclist to win a one-day classic.
Biniam Girmay became the first rider from Eritrea to win a cycling World Tour (elite) race when he prevailed in the Ghent-Wevelgem classic on Sunday.