Iljo Keisse of Etixx Quick Step has won the Ronde Van Zeeland Seaports race
This 1.1 category race on the UCI European Tour was a stage of 196.1kms which started and finished in Terneuzen.
After Etixx Quick Step who included the likes of Niki Terpstra had controlled the early attacks, Capiot, Mortensen, Bakker, Hoekstra, Groen and Cools got away but were persued by a group of around twenty riders on a wet and cold afternoon in the Netherlands.
This chasing group bridged and was trimmed down to twenty four riders who had a thirty second lead over eight chasers with the peloton, some 1.45 back down the road.
With seventy kilometres left, Niki Terpstra, Iijo Keisse and Lukasz Wisniowski who attacked with 100kms to go, had taken a lead of 1.50 on Roosen, Teunissen, Lampaert, Maes, Trentin, Van Keirsbulck, Benoot, de Bie, Theuns, Vinther, Hoogerland, R Kreder, Van Goethem, Van Rhee and Vermeltfoort.
That lead extended to 3.10 and 4.15 with twenty five kilometres left. They were still 3.40 ahead, fifteen kilometres later and that gap proved enough for Iljo Keisse go on to take the win 4.34.36, beating team mates Niki Terpstra and Lukasz Wisniowski.
Two minutes and ten seconds later, Yves Lampaert of Etixx-QuickStep lead home the remaining sixteen riders who had finished the race.