Sylvester stage 4: Hüni & Hus

Stage 4 of the Sylvester 5-Days took place at De Winner, featuring a well-designed course with a variety of terrains and challenging controls. While there were a few errors in the elite categories, most were limited to less than a few minutes.

In the women's category Corina Hüni continued her dominance by winning her third stage today and guaranteeing her overall victory. Lisa Hubmann got yet another good result, finishing 2th today, 3 minutes behind. On third place we had Rahel Good but was already almost 6 minutes behind. Eva Örnhagen Jorgensen mispunched herself today and is unfortunatly out for the podium as she won't start tomorrow. But we saw some really nice routechoices through the green of her today. In the overall classment second and third place is still open for Hubmann, Good, Dupuy, Oeyen en Stevens. Tomorrow will be full speed no mistakes for these women!

Official results WE

In the men's category Wouter Hus took his second win and took a great step towards the overall podium. Second place was for Joschi Schmid today as he performed well again. Liam Thiels got yet another good result in third place but almost 4 minutes behind Hus but made a 1.5 min mistake costing him valuable points. Michael van Baelen had to step out of the competition with a back injury. We wish him a good recovery. The overall standings remain undecided as 4 men are still in contention for the victory. There are numerous possible outcomes for the order after tomorrow's race. Hus had 1 poor race so that one will cancel out normally but he need a stable race tomorrow. He's by far the most experienced runner of the 4 canditates so maybe has to use that tomorrow. Thiels has been consistent and has experience on tomorrow’s terrain, but will need to beat all three contenders, including Hus, by a significant margin. Schmid needs to have another stable fast race as he mispunched himself on day 3 but has some technical terrain that suits him well. Zridkavesely is currently leading but also need a good race. It all comes down to the final day!

Official results ME

In the M18 category, Janis Kuhn became the fourth different winner in four days. However, Belgian junior Mats de Smul has already secured the overall victory but aims to win tomorrow for some additional points.

Tomorrow everything will be decided in The Netherlands. It will be a technical stage were both the technical as the physical capabilities will be tested. Rune de Clercq will also run tomorrow so we have another candidate for the stage victory tomorrow. Stay tuned as the Sylvester 5-Days reaches its exciting conclusion!