
Wout van Aert sprinted to victory at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic on Friday, winning from an elite group, beating Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in the process.
It was a brutal edition, with the leading trio containing the three biggest names going clear of everyone else with about 40km to go. Van der Poel and the Alpecin-Deceuninck team were active from the start, with Pogačar also trying to attack his rivals repeatedly inside the final 4km.