Exact Cross

The Exact Cross is a season-long cyclo-cross competition, formerly known as the Ethias Cross and the Brico Cross, consisting of 8 rounds throughout the season in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is one of five season-long competitions, alongside the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, Cyclo-cross Superprestige, the X²O Badkamers Trophy (formerly known as the DVV Trophy, before that the BPost Bank Trophy and before that as the Gazet van Antwerpen trophy) and the HSF System Cup. In contrast to the other competitions, the Exact Cross does not award points or compose an overall ranking, but rather consists of separate races. Sponsored by the Belgian hardware chain Brico for the first three seasons and then by the Belgian insurance company Ethias from 2019 to 2022,^[1] its main sponsor is the enterprise software provider Exact.^[2]

Exact Cross

Race details
Date	October–January
Region	Belgium and the Netherlands
Discipline	Cyclo-cross
Web site	exactcross.be
History
First edition	2016–2017

Individual race winners

Men

Season	Geraardsbergen	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst	Only six races
2016–17	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	NA
Season	Eeklo	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst	Only six races
2017–18	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	NA
Season	Geraardsbergen	Meulebeke	Ronse	Lokeren	Essen	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst
2018–19	Lars van der Haar (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Daan Soete (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
Season	Eeklo	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Beringen	Essen	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst
2019–20	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Quinten Hermans (BEL)	Quinten Hermans (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)
Season	Lokeren	Kruibeke	Beringen	Leuven	Essen	Bredene	Eeklo	Sint-Niklaas
2020–21	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Toon Aerts (BEL)	Toon Aerts (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Quinten Hermans (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)
Season	Lokeren	Beringen	Bredene	Meulebeke	Leuven	Essen	Maldegem	Sint-Niklaas
2021–22	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)
Season	Kruibeke	Beringen	Meulebeke	Essen	Mol	Loenhout	Zonnebeke	Sint-Niklaas
2022–23	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Gerben Kuypers (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Tim Merlier (BEL)	Laurens Sweeck (BEL)
Season	Beringen	Essen	Mol	Loenhout	Zonnebeke	Maldegem	Sint-Niklaas	Only seven races
2023–24	Thibau Nys (BEL)	Wout van Aert (BEL)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Mathieu van der Poel (NED)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	Eli Iserbyt (BEL)	Michael Vanthourenhout (BEL)	NA

Women

Season	Geraardsbergen	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst	Only six races
2016–17	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Ellen Van Loy (BEL)	Jolien Verschueren (BEL)	Thalita de Jong (NED)	Marianne Vos (NED)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	NA
Season	Eeklo	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst	Only six races
2017–18	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Katie Compton (USA)	Alice Maria Arzuffi (ITA)	Marianne Vos (NED)	Laura Verdonschot (BEL)	NA
Season	Geraardsbergen	Meulebeke	Ronse	Lokeren	Essen	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst
2018–19	Eva Lechner (ITA)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Marianne Vos (NED)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Maud Kaptheijns (NED)	Lucinda Brand (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)[3][4]
Season	Eeklo	Meulebeke	Kruibeke	Beringen	Essen	Bredene	Maldegem	Hulst
2019–20	Maud Kaptheijns (NED)	C. del Carmen Alvarado (NED)	Annemarie Worst (NED)	Annemarie Worst (NED)	Marianne Vos (NED)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Annemarie Worst (NED)	C. del Carmen Alvarado (NED)
Season	Lokeren	Kruibeke	Beringen	Leuven	Essen	Bredene	Eeklo	Sint-Niklaas
2020–21	Aniek van Alphen (NED)	Lucinda Brand (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)	C. del Carmen Alvarado (NED)	Marianne Vos (NED)	Kata Blanka Vas (HUN)	Denise Betsema (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)
Season	Lokeren	Beringen	Bredene	Meulebeke	Leuven	Essen	Maldegem	Sint-Niklaas
2021–22	Denise Betsema (NED)	Yara Kastelijn (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Anna Kay (GBR)	Zoe Bäckstedt (GBR)	Annemarie Worst (NED)	Lucinda Brand (NED)
Season	Kruibeke	Beringen	Meulebeke	Essen	Mol	Loenhout	Zonnebeke	Sint-Niklaas
2022–23	Fem van Empel (NED)	Fem van Empel (NED)	Lucinda Brand (NED)	Aniek van Alphen (NED)	Shirin van Anrooij (NED)	Shirin van Anrooij (NED)	Denise Betsema (NED)	Annemarie Worst (NED)
Season	Beringen	Essen	Mol	Loenhout	Zonnebeke	Maldegem	Sint-Niklaas	Only seven races
2023–24	Fem van Empel (NED)	Marion Norbert-Riberolle (BEL)	Lucinda Brand (NED)	Sanne Cant (BEL)	Marion Norbert-Riberolle (BEL)	Laura Verdonschot (BEL)	Lucinda Brand (NED)	NA

External links

• Official website (in Dutch)