“I would say my first three laps were much better than my last lap,” Compton said. In the final race of the day Sanne Cant (Belgium) successfully defended her elite women’s rainbow jersey as she dropped Katie Compton (USA) on the final lap, with Lucinda Brand (Netherlands) in third. A meeting of the UCI Management Committee at the Cyclocross World Championships in Valkenburg, Netherlands has now rubber-stamped these reforms, with a new “support/TV commissaire” being introduced at the Grand Tours (Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España), Monuments (Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and Il Lombardia), and the World Championships. After Tulett’s victory, the British team had to wait just two hours to pick up their next rainbow jersey as Evie Richards reclaimed the under-23 women’s race which see first won in 2016.
Sanne Cant outduels Katie Compton in women's elite race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Valkenburg, Netherlands, winning her second title.