{"id":9085,"date":"2026-02-02T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/uk\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:46:58","slug":"lucinda-brand-overcomes-crash-and-alvarado-to-win-second-cyclocross-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/uk\/2026\/02\/02\/lucinda-brand-overcomes-crash-and-alvarado-to-win-second-cyclocross-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda Brand Overcomes Crash and Alvarado to Win Second Cyclocross World Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lucinda Brand confirmed her status as the best current women\u2019s cyclocross rider by winning Saturday\u2019s dramatic UCI Elite Women\u2019s World Championship on a slippery course in Hulst. It was her 19th victory in 24 starts this season, during which she also won the UCI World Cup series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A dramatic race, a cool winner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To win her second world title, the 36-year-old Baloise Verzekeringen\u2013Het Poetsbureau Lions rider had to overcome a late crash and a determined Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado (Fenix\u2013Premier Tech), who finished second, 27 seconds behind. Alvarado\u2019s teammate, the unlucky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2026\/01\/26\/doubles-for-van-der-poel-and-pieterse-on-final-world-cup-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puck Pieterse,<\/a> finished third, at 51 seconds, after a hard crash that deprived her of any chance for the victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt feels amazing,\u201d said Brand after the race. \u201cIt\u2019s really good after such a great season to win on the most important day, [as] some people call it. It\u2019s fantastic [to win] in front of a home crowd. I previously won the title already; the relief might be bigger if you didn\u2019t have it yet&#8230; What makes it way more special is that there were way more people to cheer me on instead of five people, staff.\u201d Brand won her first world championship in 2021, when attendance at sporting events was restricted due to Covid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUL9yW0jGKB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUL9yW0jGKB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Lucinda Brand (@lucinda_brand)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>Though she was the dominant woman cyclocross rider this winter, after the shocking retirement of three-time world champion Fem van Empel, it wasn\u2019t a seamless season for Brand. Her mother died during the winter, and she experienced a brief slump after winning 13 races in a row. She even finished tenth in Maasmechelen, one week ago, after 63 consecutive podium finishes, and came out of the race with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think I&#8217;m quite good at just focusing on that little thing that I&#8217;m doing at the right moment,\u201d Brand told journalists, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/womens-cycling\/mad-at-myself-for-crashing-in-elite-womens-cyclo-cross-worlds-race-brand-stays-calm-to-hold-off-dutch-rival-for-second-title\/\"><em>Cyclingnews<\/em><\/a>. \u201cSo I&#8217;m not really distraught from the things that happen around me. Sometimes it&#8217;s a weakness, of course, in life to move on all the time and not to think too much about what happened, but in this case, I think it&#8217;s a strength for me. So I took it with two hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was the seventh world title in a row won by a Dutch woman and the fourth time in succession that Dutch women had swept all three spots on the podium. The word for that is <em>dominance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>How it played out<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brand, Alvarado, and Pieterse were at the front of the race almost from the first pedal-stroke, though the world champion got off to her usual slow start and had to catch her compatriots. The dangerous Amandine Fouquenet (Pauwels Sauzen\u2013Altez Industriebouw), who usually is the quickest off the line, had a particularly poor start from which she never recovered, and she also crashed late on stage 5. She eventually finished fifth, 58 seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pieterse was the most active of the three Dutch riders, attacking on the technical sections, where she excelled, to pressure the chasers and try to gap Brand and Alvarado. She led her two compatriots by 3 seconds at the end of lap 2 of 6, with the chase group, led by Blanka Vas, 12 seconds behind. But Brand attacked and passed her at the start of lap 3 and quickly opened a gap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That forced Pieterse out of her comfort zone, and she took a hard tumble coming out of a steep descent, landing on her right shoulder and her back. She was momentarily dazed and had to change her bike. When she looked up again, she was riding with the chase group in the contest for third place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI crashed quite a bit, quite out of my head,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/i-think-i-can-be-really-proud-puck-pieterse-recovers-from-mid-race-crash-to-win-another-bronze-medal-at-the-cyclo-cross-world-championships\/ar-AA1VoB9M?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=b2ed90a834a741e6ff46fe48c948a04c&amp;cvpid=5043fab70994484afb0cb9e3b0a66b76&amp;ei=25\">she told journalists<\/a> afterwards. \u201cAnd I knew Lucinda and Ceylin were so strong they wouldn&#8217;t wait for me, unfortunately. Afterwards, I had to change bikes, and the group behind me came back, so then I knew that I\u2019m not closing that gap of 30 seconds anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was clearly the best of the chasers and easily won the contest for the final podium spot, though she punched her helmet in self-reproach as she crossed the finish line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of lap 3, Brand had a lead of 6 seconds on Alvarado, with the chase group now 38 seconds behind and well out of it. She then upped the pace again and stretched her lead over Alvarado, so that the race appeared to be over. But it wasn\u2019t, because Brand crashed on lap 4, tumbling over her handlebars. She quickly remounted, but Alvarado caught and passed her \u2013 and Brand was massaging her right hip, a worrying sign. Alvarado crossed the lap 4 finish line in the lead, but Brand had recovered from the mishap and rode away again, putting 10 seconds between her and Alvarado by the end of lap 5, a lead she gradually extended until the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there was still more drama in the race. The rising young Czech rider Krist\u00fdna Zemanov\u00e1, who had been prominent early, slipped when she tried to pass Belgian champion Marion Norbert Riberolle (Crelan-Corendon) and slid into her, causing them both to come down. Norbert Riberolle stood up and then pushed Zemanov\u00e1 with both arms. That led her to be disqualified from the race. Zemanov\u00e1 lost her chain in the incident and eventually finished 11th, 2:05 behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norbert Riberolle was seen later lying on the course and holding her head. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sporza.be\/nl\/2026\/01\/31\/wk-om-snel-te-vergeten-voor-norbert-riberolle-belgische-gediskwalificeerd-na-duw-ook-ziekenhuisbezoek-nodig~1769870722545\/\"><em>Sporza<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> the Belgian Cycling Team said in a statement that the rider had been experiencing physical discomfort and was taken to the hospital to be checked for head and neck pain. She was also said to have suffered a panic attack and chest pain during the race.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Top 10 Elite Women \u2013 2026 CX World Championships, Hulst<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucinda Brand, Netherlands, \u00a0\u00a049:16<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado, Netherlands +0:27<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puck Pieterse, Netherlands, +0:51<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanka Vas, Hungary +0:56<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amandine Fouquenet, France +0:58<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jolanda Neff, Switzerland +1:02<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt, Great Britain +1:05<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manon Bakker, Netherlands +1:11<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shirin van Anrooij, Netherlands +1:20<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie Schreiber, Luxembourg +1:37<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucinda Brand confirmed her status as the best current women\u2019s cyclocross rider by winning Saturday\u2019s dramatic UCI Elite Women\u2019s World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":9098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-9085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-the-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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