Chicchi Wins Nokere-Koerse

Last updated : 15 March 2012 By Kev Monks

Italian Francesco Chicchi of the Omega Pharma-QuickStep won the Nokere-Koerse race in Belgium on Wednesday.

Chicchi, who won two stages in the San Luis in Argentina back in January, broke away near the end of the 195.9km race to be first past the finish line in Nokere, in a time of 4:19:42.

His team-mate Andrew Fenn was the first British rider home in 46th place with BMC's Adam Blythe in 68th, Ireland's Mehdi Sohrabi of Lotto - Belisol was 86th and Brit Mark McNally of the An Post Sean Kelly was 135th,