Annemiek van Vleuten storms to victory at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with phenomenal show of power

Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) showed her mettle as she powered away from Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx) to win Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for a second time. The Movistar rider made her move — from an elite group of six that included Liane Lippert (Team DSM), Marlen Reusser (Alé BTC Ljubljana), Ellen van Dijk (Trek–Segafredo), and Anna Henderson (Jumbo Visma) — on the Bosberg, and only Vollering could stay with the 39-year-old.

Ad/> With Vollering sitting on for the final 12km into Ninove, the 25-year-old — the superior sprinter – looked likely to add Omloop to her palmares but Van Vleuten opened up her sprint some 300m out to seal a dominant win just a matter of months after she shattered her pelvis in a serious crash at Paris-Roubaix in October. CyclingBlazin’ Saddles: The biggest disappointments and must-do-betters of 202129/12/2021 AT 10:45 It represented a phenomenal show of power after five of cobblestones and nine climbs.