Winners have become favourites for the World Championships
Lucinda Brand (Baloise Trek Lions) and Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) won the overall series titles in the women‘s and men‘s UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup series. Brand finished second in the final race in Hoogerheide. Only Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) managed to beat her on Sunday. Brand accumulated 432 points over the course of the season. Denise Betsema (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) was second, down by 71 points. Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Fenix) finished third overall with an 82-point deficit. Lucinda Brand won six rounds and stood on the podium for another six of the 15 races.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFUHJhMhAK/
Eli Iserbyt sealed the overall title with a stunning victory in Hoogerheide. He won 7 races and finished on the podium in another five. In the end, he accumulated a total of 485 points. Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal) finished second, trailing 128 points and third placed Toon Aerts (Baloise Trek Lions) was down 137 points.
![Eli Iserbyt](https://skoda-welovecycling-env.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/2/2022/01/profimedia-0655676884.jpg)
Brand and Iserbyt are, naturally, among the favourites to win the world titles at the UCI Cyclo-cross Championships held in Fayetteville, Arkansas (January 28-31).
Do you think they’ll win it? Or do you favour someone else? Let us know!
Stick with cycling!
Classic
Fowl course
Sheepish course