Superprestige-Gavere

The third round of Superprestige saw Yara Kastelijn top a strong team performance and Eli Iserbyt continue to win with ease.

Wout van Aert won the fifth round of the Superprestige series in Gavere, as Mathieu van der Poel suffered a puncture while leading on the final lap.

Ellen van Loy (Telenet Fidea) won the fifth round of the Superprestige series in Gavere, Belgium on Sunday.

Mathieu van der Poels nabs a fourth straight victory in the Superprestige series ahead of Wout Van Aert and Toon Aerts

Sanne Cant nabs her third Superprestige win of the season at Gavere

Mathieu van der Poel is finally emerging from another layoff due to knee injury. Cyclocross needs him, as does his key rival Wout Van Aert.

Wout Van Aert and Sanne Cant prove best on a heavy, muddy course at a classic Belgian venue.

Wout Van Aert shells a strong lead group to win the Superprestige round at Asper-Gavere

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

Sanne Cant shows her strength on a heavy, slippery Superprestige circuit at Asper-Gavere

Dan Seaton wades through the mud to document a day of racing in Gavare

Sven Nys headlines a day in Gavere with a surprise attack for victory in the men's elite race

Results from the Superprestige round at Gavere

The muddy race boils down to a two-man contest, and the world champion bests the German with a powerful pass going into the final sprint

Dan Seaton braves the muck of Gavere to shoot the men's Superprestige

Results from the Gavere round of the Superprestige series

Nys triumphs in a pitched battle with Vantornout that came down to the final meters of a brutal, boggy course

The Briton says the mud is her friend, and it certainly seemed so on Sunday

Dan Seaton gets down and dirty to snap the Superprestige round at Gavere

Dan Seaton answers reader questions on the Albert/Nys rivalry, the best mud tires, and the chances for the U.K. to host a World Cup

Dan Seaton snaps the action at the 2011 Superprestige Gavere.

Men

• 1. Kevin Pauwels, 1:02:05
• 2. Tom Meeusen 0:32
• 3. Zdenek Stybar (Tsj)
• 4. Bart Aernouts
• 5. Sven Nys 0:36

Women

• 1. Sanne van Paassen (Ned) 40:17
• 2. Sophie de Boer (Ned)
• 3. Nikki Harris (GBr) 0:04
• 4. Sabrina Stultiens (Ned) 0:17
• 5. Pavla Havlikova (Tsj) 0:28

While most locals were probably not finished with breakfast, Dutchwoman Sanne Van Paassen was busy winning another of the crown jewels of Belgian cyclocross, the famously difficult — for its hills and mud —fourth round of the Superprestige series in Asper-Gavere.

Men

• 1. Sven Nys (Bel), Landbouwkrediet, in 58:48
• 2. Kevin Pauwels (Bel), Telenet-Fidea, same time
• 3. Niels Albert (Bel), BKCP-Powerplus, at 0:22
• 4. Bart Wellens (Bel), Telenet-Fidea, at 1:05
• 5. Zdenek Stybar (Cze), Telenet-Fidea, at 1:24

• 1. Sanne van Paassen (Ned) BrainWash, in 38:30
• 2. Helen Wyman (GB) Kona-FSA, same time
• 3. Sophie De Boer (Ned), at 0:20
• 4. Sanne Cant (Bel) BKCP-Powerplus, at 0:45
• 5. Nikki Harris (GB), at 1:40

The third round of the 2009 Superprestige cyclocross series is in Gavere, Belgium.