Mathieu van der Poel takes GP de Wallonie victory in impressive showing before World Championships

Dutchman throws down gauntlet to Pogačar and Van Aert ahead of the Wollongong road race

Mathieu Van der Poel
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Mathieu van der Poel demonstrated that he is in fighting form ahead of the fast approaching World Championships road race in Australia with victory at the GP de Wallonie this afternoon. 

It was Van der Poel’s first win in several months since winning the opening stage at the Giro d’Italia.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.