Lucinda Brand wins the Women Elite race at the UEC Cyclo-Cross European Championships in Montferland-Zeddam

Lucinda Brand wins the Women Elite race at the UEC Cyclo-Cross European Championships on the Montferland-Zeddam circuit, in the Netherlands, completing the laps in 0:51:37. The Dutch rider of LIDL - TREK thus takes home another victory in a cyclocross season that has begun with remarkable consistency. For the 37-year-old Dutchwoman, this success represents her fifth victory in seven Women Elite races contested this season, with seven podium finishes overall. The path that led her to the European title also runs through the results of the previous weeks: 1st place at the X2O Badkamers Trofee - Koppenbergcross on 2026-11-01, 1st place at the Telenet Superprestige - Vlaamse Druivencross on 2026-10-25 and 3rd place at the Nacht van Woerden on 2026-10-20. Behind her, the finishing order hands second place to Marie Schreiber (TEAM SD WORX - PROTIME), 23 years old, author of a high-level cyclocross season: with this race she has contested eight Women Elite events, with five victories and eight podiums. In the previous races the Luxembourg rider had finished 3rd at the X2O Badkamers Trofee - Koppenbergcross on 2026-11-01, 1st at the Grand Prix de la Commune de Contern on 2026-10-25 and 1st at the Nacht van Woerden on 2026-10-20. Third place goes to Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (FENIX-PREMIER TECH), 28 years old: for her this is the sixth Women Elite race of the season, with one victory and three podiums. She had previously finished 7th at the X2O Badkamers Trofee - Koppenbergcross on 2026-11-01, 8th at the Telenet Superprestige - Vlaamse Druivencross on 2026-10-25 and 1st at the Internationale Cyclocross Heerderstrand on 2026-10-24. Completing the top ten on the Dutch circuit: 4th Inge Van Der Heijden, 5th Denise Betsema, 6th Manon Bakker, 7th Kristýna Zemanová, 8th Hélène Clauzel and 9th Aniek Van Alphen. The start list for the race counted 27 riders. On the road — Lucinda Brand, over the last twelve months, has taken 2nd place at the GP Lucien Van Impe on 2026-08-20, 9th place at the Egmont Cycling Race Women on 2026-08-18 and 10th place at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes Hauts-de-France on 2026-04-12.