Olympic Omnium champion Benjamin Thomas and bronze medalist Fabio van den Bosch charged to victory in the 66th edition of Ghent Six days on Sunday, 't launching a slow attack to steal the lap at Kuipke.

Lindsay De Vylder and Robbe Ghys led 6 days from the first night and headed to the final Madison with a 44-point lead over Thomas and Van den Bossche.

However, there were two other teams on the same lap: Jules Hester and Aaron Gates, who were further down by 2 points, and Madison World Champions Roger Kruger and Theo Reinhardt, who were 4th.

Hester launched an attack to try to take a late lap in the final Madison, but Thomas and van den Bosch were the ones who profited. They sat back and let De Vylder and Ghys do the chase, launching a devastating final blow when the Hesters unwound.

"We were hunters this week. Jules (Hester's) got into a heroic team race and put a lot of pressure on the leader," Thomas said. "We took advantage of it. We knew we had a bullet and had to use it at the right moment."

The victory was the first for Fabio van den Bosch, who said the team was constantly accumulating energy until the final race.

"Today we tried to play that Lindsay and Robbe as leaders had to control three duos. We waited and looked for the right moment. We succeeded," Van den Bosche said.

"It's impressive that the winner still won the lap at the end. Ghys and De Vylder had to close everything," Hesters said.

"Thomas took a lap with Van den Bosch that we could not take. It was the most difficult moment of the race. Thomas still had some left and found that he made the most of it.

De Vylder gave credit to the winning team for coming out strong in the last days.

"It was very dominant this week," De Wilder said. "But the winner got on a great final day. For a week we were probably the strongest pair, but they were today."