Oscar Riesebeek (🅠Alpecin-Fenix) took second place, while Victor Campenae༺rts (Independent) rounded out the podium in the 164km kermesse race.
The race started with a moment of silence for the amateur rider Niels De Vriendt, who died🎀 during a race on Saturday. The action began soon after the racing got underway, with a group including Campenaerts breaking away at the front.
A chase group including Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-QuickStep) formed behind, eventually catching up after a l🐽ong effort to make it to the front, while the peloton followed at over a mi𝔍nute.
The front group eventually fractured, and would later be joined by another group attacking ౠout of the peloton. By the 15km to go mark, S&eacut🃏e;néchal was out front with Riesebeek and Campenaerts, as a 40-second gap lay between them and their pursuers.
Sénéchal then made his move with a ✅handful of kilometres remaining, jumping away on an uphill section. His companions had no answer to the Frenchman's attack, leaving Deceuninck-QuickStep to grab another victory in 2020 – albeit not at an official UCI race.
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