Victor Campenaerts will not participate in the spring classics. Injured in the back after having fallen this Saturday on Bredene Koksijde Classic, the rider of Lotto Dstny must stop for several weeks.
Victor Campenaerts must stop momentarily. The rider of the Lotto-Dstny team, victim this Saturday of a fall which forced him to retire from the Bredene Koksijde Classic (UCI ProSeries), suffers from a fracture of a vertebra in the lower back. .
The 31-year-old Belgian was then taken to the hospital in the wake of this incident which occurred about fifty kilometers from the finish to take exams. This diagnosis has unfortunate consequences for the rest of his season. He must get off his bike and withdraw from the spring classics.
🇧🇪 #BredeneKoksijdeClassic@VCampenaerts crashed hard and was forced to abandon the race. He is taken to hospital for further examinations. We will give an update asap.
@@FlorianVermeers also hit the ground but is back on the bike.
— Lotto Dstny (@lotto_dstny) March 17, 2023
A fatal fall for Campenaerts
“I am of course very disappointed to miss the classics with Lotto-Dstny. Everyone saw that we had started the season very well and I was looking forward to continuing this momentum in the next Classics. Unfortunately, I have to follow them while lying on the sofa. I am convinced that my teammates will show great things in the coming weeks, and from home, I will be their biggest fan”, reports the best climber of the last Tour de Wallonie.
Its duration of unavailability is currently unknown. Since the start of the season, Victor Campenaerts, winner of a stage on a Grand Tour (Giro 2021), has only participated in one World Tour category race. It was at the start of the season, during the Circuit Het Nieuwsblad where he finished 62nd.
