2024 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Results & Recap
2024 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Jan Tratnik wins Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Jan Tratnik (Team Visma Lease a bike) won today's edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad after outsprinting his breakaway companion Nils Politt (UAD) in the finale. His teammate, Wout van Aert (TVL) , took third in the reduced field sprint into Ninove.
"In the end, last k, I was a bit worried whether I could win the sprint. Then I saw that Nils started quite early and was already pulling, so I started believing I could win," Tratnik said. "Today I was more in a domestique role. The guys did a really good job in splitting the race. I was behind a little bit. I could be behind – not relaxed – but I knew we had five guys in front. Then in the end, I just kept believing. We caught back all the guys and I went to counter-attack and in the end I won."
It was a chaotic and disorganized 202km race from the start. Several breakaways escaped however, the real danger move came after 60km, when Visma lease a bike split the peloton, leaving around 30 riders in the front group containing five from Visma-Lease A Bike – Van Aert, Jorgenson, Benoot, Laporte and Edoardo Affini – Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Dstny), Gianni Moscon, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tom Pidcock, Connor Swift, Luke Rowe and Ben Turner.
From there, the Visma squad traded attacks until the final blow stuck and Tratnik escaped with Politt.
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