Male Team 05 Jun
Dwars door het Hageland
122.3 Kilometers
The Movistar Team will cover at Dwars door het Hageland -a UCI 1.2 Belgian race held for the first time on Saturday 5th June- the first stop of its final weekend of racing before the National Championships. The race has become a very unique feature of the men’s Belgian calendar due to its several gravel road sectors -up to nine, all over the whole route-, combined with the cobbled climb to the finish in the Citadel of Diest (500m at 4%).
Four different ‘sterrato’ roads are part of this race: Grootbroekstraat (3200m) and Demervallei Aarschot (3300m), used into the first half of the route, plus Prinsenbos (1800m) and Demerdijk Zichem (4000m), part of the final loop together with the Citadel climb, which makes for 1000m of cobblestones combining the climb and the finish area.