Victor Campenaerts, one of many cornerstones of Lotto-Dstny’s classics marketing campaign, shall be out for the following two months and miss the entire remaining Spring Classics. The 31-year-old crashed closely within the Bredene Koksijde Basic on Friday and fractured a vertebra in his lumbar backbone, his group introduced.
Campenaerts was mid-pack with 53km to go, having drifted again after his group tried to separate the race within the crosswinds. On a slim part of highway with a deep crack working by the center of the tarmac a Intermarché-Circus-Wanty rider shifted to keep away from driving into the rut and ran into Hugo Hofstetter (Arkéa-Samsic). The contact brought about Hofstetter to fall and the crash rippled by the peloton.
When the mud cleared, Campenaerts was clearly the worst off, seen writing in ache on the bottom whereas the remainder of the crash victims obtained again up.
“I’m after all very dissatisfied to overlook the Spring Classics with Lotto-Dstny,” Campenaerts mentioned. “Everybody noticed that we had began the season in a great way and I used to be actually wanting ahead to persevering with that good stream within the upcoming classics.
“Sadly I’ll now should observe it from residence. I’m satisfied that my teammates will present nice issues within the coming weeks, and from the couch, I shall be their largest supporter.”
The crash was Campenaerts third in two days after he went down twice within the GP de Denain on Thursday. Hofstetter additionally crashed twice in yesterday’s race, and broke two units Bianchi handlebars within the course of. Bianchi vehemently denied any faults with their tools in an announcement as we speak.
In 2022, Campenaerts raced a dozen Spring Classics from Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to Paris-Roubaix, with a fourth place in Dwars door Vlaanderen his greatest outcome.
