{"id":6151,"date":"2022-04-30T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/second-place-for-tim-smeenge-in-houffalize\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T11:07:12","slug":"second-place-for-tim-smeenge-in-houffalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/second-place-for-tim-smeenge-in-houffalize\/","title":{"rendered":"Second place for Tim Smeenge in Houffalize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Houffalize, Tim Smeenge confirmed his good shape of the last few weeks by finishing second in the Roc d&#8217;Ardenne behind Belgian winner Wout Alleman. The Belgian Frans Claes crossed the finish line in third place ahead of the Briton Ben Thomas and the Swiss Martin Fanger. Smeenge&#8217;s teammate Teus Ruijter came in eighth as the second Dutchman.<a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5219\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tim-Roc-dArdenne-Houffalize-podium-416x300.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b4With 115 kilometers and almost 3500 vertical meters, this was a completely different marathon than the two marathons I recently won in Germany. The average speed was clearly lower here and this race also had a stronger field of participants and I am very pleased that I can also compete on this terrain and starting field at the front. The BeMC will also take place in this area in three weeks. In that four-day stage race I hope to achieve a good result as well.\u201d, says Smeenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Houffalize, Tim Smeenge confirmed his good shape of the last few weeks by finishing second in the Roc d&#8217;Ardenne behind Belgian winner Wout Alleman. The Belgian Frans Claes crossed the finish line in third place ahead of the Briton Ben Thomas and the Swiss Martin Fanger. Smeenge&#8217;s teammate Teus Ruijter came in eighth as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","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\/6151","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=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}