After the first three rounds in the clubcompetition both categories will still have some exciting races in the next rounds. In the men’s category Praesis Lars is leading with only a few points and in the women’s category Lotte is leading with an advantage of only one point over Ella!

Last Sunday the Dutch national student championships were organised by our colleagues of Mercurius. The challenging hilly circuit had to be endured by DM-members in every category. Some of them were more successful than others. But the vibes and quality of the cheering did not suffer from that.

The success started with a nice 2^nd place for Sophie in the non-licence women category. A solid performance considering that this was only her 2^nd (bike)race ever. Ymke finished 12^th in this same race. In the non-licence men category, Christiaan just missed the podium (4^th). He was stuck behind other riders in the uphill-sprint. A real shame, as he had lots of power left in his legs. Ruben, Jannes and Tom also took part in this race, they respectively finished in a 26^th, 29^th and 37^th position. Frank once again showed that his talents are more closely related to mountainbiking than to roadracing, by making sure a DNF had to be noted behind his name.

The best ranked DM member in the amateur men category was Robbin in 10^th place. Lars, Dennis and Pieter respectively finished in this same race in 21^st, 27^th and 48^th position. The official program ended with the elite/U23 category in which Jesse ended in 18^th place. The unofficial program ended with pizza and good stories about the race. So, despite not being able to bring a jersey back to Maastricht we still had a lovely day.