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Sam Bennett has taken the biggest one-day victory of his career, and his first ever win in a one-day WorldTour race, at Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne (1.UWT) in Belgium today.
It was a brilliant rebound for the Irishman, who punctured in the finale of Milan-Sanremo last weekend; a mechanical that cost him a shot at his first monument win.
Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep) had this year already won two stages at UAE Tour and two stages at Paris-Nice before today. But his latest victory adds a one-day WorldTour win to his palmares.
At the end of 204km of racing today from Brugge to De Panne, the victory was fought out in a bunch sprint with Bennett proving too fast for the opposition after another brilliant lead-out from his team.
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Bennett waited and waited until his lead-out men were done and then kicked for the line, with no contest from the moment he reached for the after burners.
While Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix) and Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe) were 2nd and 3rd, once Bennett kicked for the line the gap between him and his rivals opened immediately and he won it very comfortably.
Again, his final lead-out man Michael Mørkøv delivered him to the front with perfection in the closing couple of hundred metres. And the Danish rider was so certain his Irish team mate would win that he had his arm raised in celebration long before the top three reached the finish line.
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