Greig Leach

Despite the combine efforts of Timo Kielich (Alpecin-Deceuninck), both Jonas Abrahamson and Rasmus Tiller (Uno X-Mobility) and Yves Lambert (Soudal-Quick Step) the peloton wasn't making any real progress towards catching Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek). Lidl-Trek did have two of Pedersen's teammates, Alex Kirsch and Toms Skujins, doing their best to disrupt the chase of their defending champion. With eight and a half kilometers to go, they were still a minute and twenty seconds behind the flying Dane. They did manage to catch the other three that were also unsuccessful in their chase of the leader as well. Now it looks like Pedersen has a very strong chance of winning his third Gent-Wevelgem.