Friday, January 2, 2009

Prestige Cup 3 Biddinghuizen Results

Written by T Dobbin
Yesterday was the third Biddinghuizen Prestige Race which is one of the biggest having highlights shown on tv on one of the biggest sport channels here in the Netherlands.

In the ladies finish it ended up coming to a final sprint where Mariska Huisman (Viks) crossed the line with yet another victory for 2009 in Biddinghuizen.

Ladies Results
1st Mariska Huisman (Viks)
2nd Margo van de Merwe (Team de Sprinters)
3rd Danielle Bekkering (Frisia)
4th Anniek ter Haar (Aavas Groep)
5th Mischa Top (Landjuweel)
6th Jolanda Langeland (Steenbergen)

The mens race also came to a sprint finish after many breakaway attempts throughout the race. The team of Nefit made the sprint for Sjoerd Huisman and DSB Bank's Ingmar Berga lead out the sprint for his team mate Arjan Smit.

Crossing the line in first with his first victory in Biddinghuizen from the team of Nefit was Sjoerd Huisman. Second place went to DSB Bank's Arjan Smit who was the winner last week in Biddinghuizen and third Cedric Michaud also from Nefit.


Mens Results
1st Sjoerd Huisman (Nefit)
2nd Arjan Smit (DSB Bank)
3rd Cedric Michaud (Nefit)
4th Sandor Stuut (Vlasman)
5th Roy Boeve (Safan)
6th Martijn van Es (TNT)
7th Yoeri Lissenberg (Foekens)
8th Arjan Mombarg (Nefit)
9th Geert Plender (Safan)
10th Sander Kingma (Team Care Group)

For Full results go to: http://www.knsb.nl/content/marathon/wedkal_detail.asp?ID=328
For more photos go to: http://www.fotohdeboer.nl/

Saturday another Essent Cup race which is held again in Assen. Shane Dobbin (DSB Bank) will be racing on Saturday in Assen before his flight on Monday to Salt Lake City for next weekend's North American & Oceania All Round Championships. The ladies race is the first event of tomorrow night's races starting at the usual time of 18:30 followed by the mens A grade race at 19:30. Keep posted for more news and results!