Kevin Pauwels

The tables have turned at the cyclocross worlds, with a wide-open women's race and a predictable men's race on the docket.

Six days after winning in Namur, Mathieu van der Poel powers to another World Cup victory in Heusden-Zolder

The world champion uncorks a stellar final lap to win the UCI World Cup round at the citadel of Namur

Wout Van Aert turns in another dominant performance, riding away in the mud at Hamme to take the victory in the Flandriencross

After some early miscues Wout Van Aert launches a late attack and makes it stick to win the Asper-Gavere round of the Superprestige series

Kevin Pauwels rides a flawless race to win in Ruddervoorde ahead of Wout Van Aert and Sven Nys

Wout Van Aert continues his winning ways, dominating the second round of the Superprestige series in the sand pit of Zonhoven

Dutchman Lars van der Haar puts on quite a show for the home folks during round two of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in the Netherlands

Kevin Pauwels wins the final round of the Superprestige, but Mathieu van der Poel takes second to clinch the series title

Mathieu van der Poel (BKCP-Powerplus) soloed to victory in the penultimate Superprestige round on Sunday in Hoogstraten

20-year-old Mathieu van der Poel's ’cross worlds win means more than simply pulling on the rainbow stripes, writes Dan Seaton

Young guns like Van Aert and van der Poel set to shake up cyclocross world championships as the old guard fights to stay on the podium

Who is cyclocross World Cup champion Kevin Pauwels? Dan Seaton talks with one of Belgium's most inscrutable 'cross stars

Kevin Pauwels and Sanne Cant claim their UCI World Cup crowns as Mathieu Van der Poel, Eva Lechner win the finale in Hoogerheide

Wout Van Aert and Katerina Nash kicked off 2015 with victories at the Grand Prix Sven Nys — the 7th round of the Bpost Bank Trofee series — held in Baal

Van der Poel rode at the front from start to finish, and benefitted from a late-race crash by Lars van der Haar to ride clear, winning alone

Lars van der Haar can't be beat in Heusden-Zolder, attacking with authority and holding on to win, despite a late-race dropped chain

Pauwels plays his cards perfectly, riding a patient race on a heavy course and making the winning move on the final lap

The 20-year-old phenom soloed to victory at a muddy edition of the race in Essen, Belgium, the fifth round of the 2014-15 Bpost Bank Trofee

Kevin Pauwels continued his strong run with victory at the GP Hasselt, taking a half-minute back from Bpost Bank Trofee series leader Sven Nys

World Cup leader Kevin Pauwels wins a two-up sprint with teammate Klaas Vantornout to pad his series lead

After Lars van der Haar slipped in the woods on the final lap, Kevin Pauwels soloed to the finish to win the fifth round of the Superprestige series

The Belgian rides alone for the second half of the race to claim victory

Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napoleon Games) won a muddy Superprestige Asper-Gavere cyclocross race Sunday, ahead of teammate Kevin Pauwels

Belgian national champion Sven Nys soloed to victory Tuesday at the Jaarmarktcross race, in Niel, Belgium, part of the Soudal Classics Cyclocross Series

Sven Nys looked to have things well in hand at the Superprestige Zonhoven until Kevin Pauwels chased him down and passed him for the victory

Wout Van Aert wins the Koppenberg round of the Bpost Bank Trofee series as a frustrated Sven Nys has to settle for second

Lars van der Haar opens his 2014-15 World Cup defense with a dominating victory over Kevin Pauwels in the season kickoff at Valkenburg

A three-man lead group shrinks to one as Meeusen has a mechanical and Pauwels can't match an acceleration by Nys

As world champ Nys crashes while bunny-hopping a barrier, Pauwels takes over the lead and never looks back

Hometown hero Pauwels wins one for the local folks, prevailing in a fast, last-lap battle with the speedy van der Haar

Van der Haar gets away early and avoids the problems that plagued his rivals, while Vos defeats defending champ Compton

Sven Nys finally gets his second world title on an emotional but tough day for the Americans

Logan VonBokel gets a peek at Kevin Pauwels' Ridley X-Knight

The Belgian contingent met its home-country press Friday morning and pointed at each other to win in Louisville

The most likely characters to step up on Sunday in Louisville and prevent a repeat of Belgium's top-seven sweep at the world championships

A rare Belgian-free podium, worlds in the U.S. and a new international squad may herald the globalization of cyclocross

Kevin Pauwels wins drag race in Rome

Sven Nys is fallible, Meredith Miller and Amy Dombroski are likely to be in Louisville, and Logan Owen is a world title contender

Nys misses his own race with bronchitis

The world champ escapes with four laps to race and never looks back

The previously invincible Sven Nys has a race to forget, crashing at least twice and confronting an unruly spectator

The Belgian champion appears to unclip in the two-up sprint, leaving Pauwels to take the victory

Nys works his way through the field and into an elite lead group, then makes the winning move in the final lap

A nearly perfect Belgian champion keeps his cool after a bobble and wins the race

Our man in the Belgian mud previews Belgian 'cross racing on the coming weekend of Armistice Day

U.S. champion Jeremy Powers rides to a strong seventh place in the World Cup opener

Pauwels nearly overhauls the rainbow jersey at the line as Sven Nys crosses for third, nearly a minute down

Vos and Pauwels win again in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. Check out the action in this Dan Seaton gallery

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) proved best of a three-man break on Monday, taking the victory at Monday's UCI World Cup at Heusden-Zolder and regaining the series lead

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) and Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) lead the UCI cyclocross rankings following the World Cup in Igorre, Spain.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) finally shed himself of rival Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and soloed to victory on Saturday as the cyclocross World Cup came to Igorre, Spain.

If Kevin Pauwels had hoped to use the Superprestige at Gieten to avenge himself for Saturday's World Cup defeat at the hands of Sven Nys, he was in for a disappointment.

Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) used his brains as well as his legs to win the World Cup stop in Koksijde on Saturday.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) edges Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) to win the GVA Trofee Hasselt and confirm his overall lead in the series.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) bested world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) at the Cyclocross GVA Trofee Ronse on Sunday.

This racing may be more accurately compared to the spring’s Tour of Flanders more than a Belgian cyclocross race

A crafty Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) outfoxed world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) and Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) to win the first race of the 2011-12 UCI World Cup in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

The powerhouse Belgian cyclocross squad Telenet-Fidea lost two of its top riders of a year ago in Zdenek Stybar and Kevin Pauwels this offseason.

American Jonathan Page falls just short of the podium as Kevin Pauwels wins the GP Heuts.

Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) won a thrilling photo-finish sprint with teammate and world champion Zdenek Stybar to take the GVA Trofee stop at Lille.

Kevin Pauwels outduels World Cup leader Niels Albert in Pont-Château, France.

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World champion Niels Albert wins the final round of the cyclocross World Cup as Zdenek Stybar takes the series title.

Zdenek Stybar (Telenet Fidea) wins the Fidea Cyclocross Tervuren in Belgium.

Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) wins the Fidea Cyclocross Tervuren in Belgium.

Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) deposes Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) as the Superprestige series leader after winning round six in Diegem.

World champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) takes the lead of the Superprestige cyclocross series from Sven Nys Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) after the Belgian champion suffers a mechanical and drops out of the race.

The fifth round of the 2009 Superprestige series is in Gieten, the Netherlands.