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Belgian Keukeleire wins Le Samyn
Belgian Jens Keukeleire who rides for the French Cofidis team won the Le Samyn one-day race overnight.
Keukeleire finished ahead of Topsport Vlaanderen's Gregory Joseph and Cedric Pineau of Equipe Roubaix Lille Metropole.
A a long break defined the 191.9km Belgian race with five riders combining to build a lead of of five minutes at the 117km mark.
ButStrong headwinds saw the break pulled back by the larger, fasterpeloton and the race came down to a bunch sprint won by Keukeleire.
Final classification: 191.9km, Frameries - Dour.
1Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 4:34:35, 2 GregoryJoseph (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator, 3 Cedric Pineau (Fra)Roubaix Lille Metropole, 4 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française Des Jeux,5 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) AG2R La Mondiale, 6 Marco Marcato (Ita)Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team, 7 Jonas Aaen Jörgensen (Den) Team SaxoBank, 8 Steven Tronet (Fra) Roubaix Lille Metropole, 9 Lloyd Mondory(Fra) AG2R La Mondiale, 10 Steven Caethoven (Bel) Landbouwkrediet.
