{"id":4653,"date":"2026-03-03T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:39:28","slug":"brennan-follows-cavendish-with-victory-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4653\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan follows Cavendish with victory in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9188fa80-1cd1-11ee-adeb-4290b12541e6.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, March 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM UTC<img alt=\"Matthew Brennan celebrates winning the Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"698\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/07681f31c02b29b4338ae6f0e117f634.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Brennan won a stage on the Tour of Britain last year<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Brennan became the first Briton since cycling great Sir Mark Cavendish to win the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne one-day race in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old&#8217;s sprint finish was too much for his rivals as he surged to victory in the 195km race and followed Cavendish&#8217;s success in 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve ridden this race twice as a junior,&#8221; said Visma-Lease a Bike rider Brennan, who was able to ride despite a heavy fall on Saturday in Omloop Nieuwsblad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always stood at the finish line and watched all the pros at the time come through and do their race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be in that situation now where I can put my hands up in the air and I&#8217;ve actually won the pro race is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, more to come &#8211; that&#8217;s the ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luca Mozzato finished second, with compatriot Matteo Trentin third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, March 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM UTC Matthew Brennan won a stage on the Tour of Britain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3554,3552,3333,3553],"class_list":{"0":"post-4653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-cavendish","10":"tag-mark-cavendish","11":"tag-matthew-brennan","12":"tag-tour-of-britain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116166705963840518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}