Another display of strength by Van Der Poel. The world champion of Alpecin Deceuninck wins in Besancon, France, the seventh round of the Cyclocross World Cup, just two days after his triumph at the Azencross in Loenhout, adding a fifth pearl to his sensational victory tally in eight days. Van Der Poel dominates from the third lap onwards (seven in total) when he catches and leaves Toon Aerts in his wake. VDP wins by a massive margin and continues to impress, while others do what they can and battle for the second position. The match effectively ends before the halfway point, with Van Der Poel's precise plan of always seeking the winning move by attacking from far out. Second place goes to Aerts, third to Niels Vandeputte, Van Der Poel's teammate.

FINAL STANDINGS 01 VAN DER POEL Mathieu - 01:04:57 02 AERTS Toon - + 20 03 VANDEPUTTE Niels - + 36 04 ISERBYT Eli - + 49 05 WYSEURE Joran - + 58 06 MEIN Thomas - + 01:10 07 VANTHOURENHOUT Michael - + 01:17 08 KUHN Kevin - + 01:26 09 BOROS Michael - + 01:35 10 ORTS LLORET Felipe - + 01:44 11 VERSTRYNGE Emiel - + 02:05 12 DUBAU Joshua - + 02:10 13 VENTURINI Clément - + 02:14 14 VAN KESSEL Corne - + 02:21 15 HENDRIKX Mees - + 02:26 16 ADAMS Jens - + 02:33 17 VANDEBOSCH Toon - + 02:49 18 SWEECK Laurens - + 03:09 19 RONHAAR Pim - + 03:21 20 FUNSTON Scott - + 03:28 21 MENUT David - + 03:40 22 GROSLAMBERT Martin - + 03:45 23 DOUBEY Fabien - + 04:00 24 LOOCKX Lander - + 04:06 25 KAMP Ryan - + 04:09 26 WIEDMANN Luke - + 04:23 27 ROUILLER Loris - + 04:32 28 RECULEAU Nicolas - + 04:52 29 SUAREZ FERNANDEZ Kevin - + 04:59 30 BETON Damien - + 05:29 31 SOMMER Lars - + 05:54 32 DUBAU Lucas - + 05:47 33 GABRIEL Timothé - + 06:07 34 BERTOLINI Gioele - + 06:12 35 KONWA Marek - + 06:15 36 FORSTER Lars - + 06:18 37 BRUNNER Eric - + 06:28 38 LELANDAIS Rémi - + 06:40 39 CEOLIN Federico - + 06:49 40 REMONDET Valentin - + 06:56 41 BARD Nicolas - + 07:17 42 NAVARRO Quentin - + 07:33 43 WHITE Curtis - + 08:30 44 KÖPSEL Jonas 45 BRENNEMAN Owen 46 CALLIGARO Cristian