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Belgium

# MAASMECHELEN MINE

CYCLOCROSS 24 JAN DRY BELGIUM

WORLD CUP · MAASMECHELEN · 2025-26

BETWEEN THE MINE'S HEADFRAMES

LAP 2.93 KM

CLIMBING +31 M

OBSTACLES 4

CORNERS 31

TIGHTEST R 7 M

ON FOOT 15 M

RIDERS 0

## THE LAP

The lap's surfaces from the line round, 2.93 km: grass 1,933 m, sand 376 m, gravel 304 m, asphalt 159 m, woods 156 m; a tick at each obstacle

grass 1,933 m sand 376 m gravel 304 m asphalt 159 m woods 156 m an obstacle

Elevation profile: 31 m of climbing over a 2.93 km lap, the surfaces under it

Map of Maasmechelen Mine, north up

## THE COURSE

**HOST**

Maasmechelen, Belgium

**WORLD CUP**

On the World Cup in 4 seasons from 2022-23 to 2025-26.

**RACE DAY**

24 JAN: usually dry and fast.

**SETTING**

An old industrial site.

**ON FOOT**

15 m a lap, in 2 stretches.

**SECTIONS**

The event meadow (from 24 m), The sand pit (from 2008 m), The slag heap (from 2187 m), The sand pit (from 2447 m)

## 4 OBSTACLES

Maasmechelen Mine: its obstacles from the line

| Obstacle | At | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PLANKS | 1226 m | Two boards across the course: hop them or jump off and run |
| THE PIT | 1726 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| FLYOVER | 1829 m | A bridge over the course, 3 m up |
| STAIRS | 1888 m | 4 steps, 1 m up, on foot, the bike on the shoulder |

31 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 7 m, at 23 km/h at most.

## HOW IT'S RACED

### CROSS RACE

So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.

- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.

## LEADERBOARD

The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.

- [OVERALL](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-maasmechelen#board)
- [MEN](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-maasmechelen?sex=M#board)
- [WOMEN](https://pedalmania.cc/routes/cx-maasmechelen?sex=F#board)

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