Puck Pieterse embraces lead role and solos to victory in Superprestige Diegem

Puck Pieterse has claimed the Superprestige in Diegem for the third time in her career. The Dutch champion did not receive it as a gift from a strong Marie Schreiber but still soloed to victory. The Luxembourger crowned a strong race with second place, while Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado finished third.

The women's cyclocross season is currently dominated by Lucinda Brand. The Baloise Glowi Lions rider has won sixteen of the eighteen races she has contested this winter, but in Diegem we saw a different winner. The leading rider of Baloise Glowi Lions rarely drops a race, but this season she is not competing in every round of the Superprestige.

During the busy end-of-year period, even the seemingly tireless Brand has to make choices. And since she leads both the World Cup and the X2O Badkamers Trofee, the decision was quickly made: Brand’s name was not on the start list. In her absence, attention focused primarily on Dutch champion Puck Pieterse and her – on paper – biggest ‘rival’ Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado.