National Championships 2026 – Belgium 🇧🇪 – Road Race [FULL RACE] (ladies) (flemish)

June 28, 2026

National Championships 2026 – Belgium 🇧🇪 – Road Race WE – Brasschaat – Brasschaat : 137,8 km

The Belgian National Road Race Championship is a cycling race which decides who will become Belgian national champion for the year to come. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey, which is black, yellow and red, like the national flag. These colours can be worn by the rider at other road racing events to show their status as national champion. The champion’s stripes can be combined into a sponsored rider’s team kit design for this purpose.

Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance-Soudal) took a hardfought but clear triumph in the Belgian Nationals Road Race on Sunday, outpowering leading favourite Lotte Kopecky (SDWorx-Protime) in a small group sprint for her first ever senior title.

The recent winner of a stage of the Vuelta a España, and the GP de Wallonie back in 2025, Bossuyt’s victory is the latest chapter of a dream comeback following a two-year suspension for banned substance Letrozole.

The 137-kilometre course starting in Antwerp and finishing in Brasschaat saw multiple options go clear, and it was only in the closing part of the course that it became certain a bunch sprint, of some 30-35 riders, would definitively materialise.

Given the rollercoaster recent past, Bossuyt’s win ahead of Kopecky and Lotto-Intermarché’s Sandrine Tas carried huge importance for the 25-year-old, who was in tears after the finish.

“There are so many emotions… that I am crying here,” she said, according to Nieuwsblad..

“This surpasses everything. I hope this is the start of something very beautiful. I was already super happy with that stage in the Vuelta and that this… I have no words for it.”

“I had actually already put that difficult period behind me, but on a day like today, it all comes back to the surface. I shouldn’t cry… but still. Getting to wear that jersey in the Tour de France is going to be very beautiful.”

How it unfolded
Early attacks allowed first Jan Dobbelaere and the veteran Loes Sels (Belco-Van Eyck) to get away, but only with a minimal advantage and they were caught three laps out. The first of the late attacks, made by Bossuyt’s teammate Julie Van de Velde (AG Insurance – Soudal) also failed to work out.

However, Van de Velde’s move sparked a much more dangerous mass move, containing defending champion Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) and no less than three Fenix-Premier Tech racers: Lotte Claes, Julie De Wilder and Xaydee Van Sinaey in a group of nine. This break was powerful enough to stay away for nearly 20 kilometres, and even when it was, Ghekiere took advantage of a cobbled sector to try and stay away.

Ghekiere’s move was then backed by Tas – later third – and young Belgian sprinter Fleur Moors (Lidl-Trek), and Moors went for it again in the final kilometres. AG Insurance-Soudal were working hard for a sprint by that stage, though, and a few minutes later, Bossuyt paid off all their hard work.

“When Justine Ghekiere was away with Tas and Moors, I told her not to ride along, because that was a dangerous situation,” Bossuyt later told Nieuwsblad.

“When everything came back together, it worked out well for me. Moors had already done quite a bit of work at the front, so I just kept an eye on Lotte. With 250 meters to go, I launched my sprint. I felt I was in control.”

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