Flanders Grand Prix 2026 lowers the curtain: Spain delivers a strong performance over four intense days in Ostend

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The 2026 Flanders Grand Prix concluded on Sunday in Ostend, Belgium, after four days of competition from August 13 to 16, bringing together hundreds of skaters and some of the sport's leading international names. The final day featured distance events for Junior and Senior categories as well as the last races for lower categories, with Spanish skaters again placing in prominent positions. Pablo Girigan (CMP Arganda) finished second in the Cadet men's 5,000 meters in 8:03.178, just 106 thousandths behind Belgian winner Matteo Deceuninck (8:03.072). Fernando García Pintus was ninth in the same race, Mario Calzadilla 14th and Adrián Romero Menéndez-Conde 24th. In the Cadet women's 5,000 meters, Lluna de los Bueis Riobello finished sixth, Daniela Boedo Arza ninth and Julia Gonzalvo Hernández 20th. Daniela Gil Valenzuela (Carbone Radical) won the Cadet women's 200-meter Flying Lap in 17.154, ahead of Wilma Marie Bielicki and Anic Ritter, later took third in the 1,000-meter sprint and sixth in the 3,000-meter points race. Llanos Fernández García placed fifth in the Youth women's 10,000-meter elimination final in 16:54.050, with Irene Cabrero 13th, and finished fourth overall in the Youth women's standings. In Senior women's competition, Claudia Batalla Cortés (Almassora Club Patí) was fifth in the 16,000-meter Road race in 26:08.408 and seventh overall in the Senior women's classification. Daniela Farelo Cabrera (Bepositive) was fifth in the Junior women's 16,000-meter Road race in 28:45.716 and sixth overall in the Junior women's standings. In the Youth men's 8,000-meter elimination, Samuel Ortiz Mena finished 14th, Yoel Álvarez Méndez 18th and Alejandro Restrepo García 29th.