Greig Leach

I was confident that Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) would make his long solo effort stick. In his post-race interview, he revealed that he wasn't so sure. He pointed out that he was well aware just how fast the peloton can close in the final kilometers of a race. It wasn't until he looked back at four-hundred meters and saw no one that he finally felt that he would win Gent-Wevelgem for the second time in a row. He has now won a total of three times, tying a record held by Cippolini, Sagan, Boonen and Merckx. That is some seriously big names in the annals of professional cycling. No man has won Gent-Wevelgem four times.... yet.