{"id":5981,"date":"2019-05-12T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-and-roel-verhoeven-in-bemc\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:58:03","slug":"strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-and-roel-verhoeven-in-bemc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-and-roel-verhoeven-in-bemc\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong performance by Tim Smeenge and Roel Verhoeven in BeMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last Thursday Tim Smeenge and Roel Verhoeven started with a solid prologue in the Belgian Mountanbike Challenge (BeMC) finishing at 11<\/strong><sup>th<\/sup><strong> and 13<\/strong><sup>th<\/sup><strong> place behind winner Mathieu van der Poel. Rain and low temperatures would make the four days stage race with start and finish in La Roche to a hard edition.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4478\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel-458x300.jpg 458w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tim-Roel.jpg 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the prologue Smeenge rode a strong first stage finishing 7<sup>th<\/sup> on Friday. Unfortunately Verhoeven had to deal with mechanical problems, fixed it but lost a lot of time and crossed the line at 26<sup>th<\/sup> position. This disappointing result did not affect him as on Saturday Verhoeven was leading for a long time with van der Poel en Hans Becking and finally finished 4<sup>th<\/sup>. Smeenge had a good day as well and took 6<sup>th<\/sup> place under really severe circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage over 62 kilometers on Sunday was also won by van der Poel who won the overall classification in front of Becking as well. With a 6<sup>th<\/sup> en 8<sup>th<\/sup> place Verhoeven and Smeenge once more showed their excellent shape. Overall Smeenge finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> and Verhoeven 8<sup>th<\/sup>. Next weekend both men will start in Willingen together with their KMC teammates Gerben Mos and Karen Brouwer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday Tim Smeenge and Roel Verhoeven started with a solid prologue in the Belgian Mountanbike Challenge (BeMC) finishing at 11th and 13th place behind winner Mathieu van der Poel. Rain and low temperatures would make the four days stage race with start and finish in La Roche to a hard edition. After the prologue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}