The devil was in the tail end of the match. Pieterse entered the final round with three others. Pieterse looks back in Namen & Back Numbers: “On the last climb, Annemarie (Worst, ed.) was again in the lead, I was in second position and Fem (van Empel, ed.) was third. Then Fem attacked the very last part of the climb just before a bend. Then I got stuck behind Annemarie and Fem had a gap. Unfortunately it was too big to close.”
Pieterse starts her World Cup season with second place, Van der Haar also second
