2014 Holland Ladies Tour Explained

2014 Boels Rental Ladies Tour
Date:	2–7 September 2014
Stages:	6
Unit:	km
First Color:	orange
Second Nat:	NED
Points Color:	green
Sprints Color:	yellow
Youth Color:	blue
Previous:	2013
Next:	2015

The 2014 Boels Ladies Tour also known as the 2014 Holland Ladies Tour is the 17th edition of the Holland Ladies Tour, a women's cycle stage race in the Netherlands. The tour is part of the 2014 women's road cycling calendar and will be held from 2 September to 7 September. The tour has six stages, it starts with an individual trial over 10.1km (06.3miles) in Tiel and concludes with a hilly stage in Limburg. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.1.^[1]

Ellen van Dijk won the tour in 2013 and will defend her title.

Teams

20 teams of maximal 6 riders take part.^[2]

UCI teams

Other teams

RC Jan van Arckel
De Jonge Renner
MIX Futurumshop Zannata-NWVG
Restore Cycling

National teams

Italy
United States
Belgium

Stages

Stage 1 (ITT)

2 September – Varik to Tiel, 10.1km (06.3miles)The first stage of the Boels Rental Ladies Tour was a time trial of 10.1km (06.3miles) over the dike between Varik and Tiel. The course was flat but there was head wind during the race.

World Time Trial Champion Ellen van Dijk won the time trial 12 seconds ahead of Lisa Brennauer and 24 seconds ahead of Trixi Worrack (both).^[3] Van Dijk said after the race that the time trial was very hard and she started a bit too fast. Furthermore, she said that she was very happy with the victory. She invested a lot of time in the time trial the last period and was pleased that after several second places in time trials this year she now took home the victory.^[4]

Stage 1 result & General classification

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 12"
3		+ 24"
4		+ 29"
5	Belgium (National team)	+ 30"
6		+ 31"
7		+ 35"
8		+ 35"
9		+ 38"
10	Astana BePink	+ 38"

Stage 2

3 September – Tiel to Tiel, 120.1km (74.6miles)500m (1,600feet) before the finish the last two leaders Willeke Knol en Carmen Small were pulled back by the bunch. They were in the attack together with Anouska Koster (Futurumshop-NWVG) and Michela Pavin (Alé–Cipollini) for over 50km (30miles). The race ended in a bunch sprint won by Lisa Brennauer ahead of Jolien D'Hoore (Lotto–Belisol Ladies) and Marianne Vos . Ellen van Dijk kept her lead in the general classification. But with Brennauer taking 10 bonification seconds at the finish line, she is now less than a second in second place behind Van Dijk in the classification.^[5]

Stage 2 result

	Team	Time
1
2	Lotto–Belisol Ladies	s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
6		s.t.
7	Alé–Cipollini	+ 2"
8		+ 2"
9		+ 2"
10	Estado de México–Faren Kuota	+ 2"

General Classification after Stage 2

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 0"
3		+ 21"
4		+ 22"
5	Belgium (National team)	+ 30"
6		+ 32"
7		+ 35"
8		+ 41"
9		+ 45"
10		+ 47"

Stage 3

4 September – Heeze to Leende, 128.2km (79.7miles)

Stage 3 result

	Team	Time
1
2	Lotto–Belisol Ladies	s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
7		s.t.
8	Estado de México–Faren Kuota	s.t.
9	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
10	Hitec Products	s.t.

General Classification after Stage 3

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 0"
3		+ 8"
4		+ 22"
5		+ 26"
6	Belgium (National team)	+ 30"
7		+ 35"
8		+ 41"
9		+ 45"
10		+ 47"

Stage 4

5 September – Gennep to Gennep, 123.4km (76.7miles)

Stage 4 result

	Team	Time
1	Topsport Vlaanderen–Pro-Duo
2	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5	Bigla Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team	s.t.
7		s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10	Astana BePink	s.t.

General Classification after Stage 4

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 7"
3		+ 9"
4	Astana BePink	+ 9"
5	Alé–Cipollini	+ 26"
6		+ 30"
7		+ 34"
8		+ 34"
9		+ 36"
10	Belgium (National team)	+ 40"

Stage 5

6 September – Wijchen to Wijchen, 117.8km (73.2miles)

Stage 5 result

	Team	Time
1
2	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7	Alé–Cipollini	s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10	Team Hitec Products	s.t.

General Classification after Stage 5

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 3"
3		+ 9"
4	Astana BePink	+ 13"
5	Alé–Cipollini	+ 30"
6		+ 31"
7		+ 36"
8		+ 38"
9	Belgium (National team)	+ 44"
10		+ 45"

Stage 6

7 September – Bunde to Berg en Terblijt, 103.61km (64.38miles)

Stage 6 result

	Team	Time
1
2	Alé–Cipollini	+ 3"
3		s.t.
4		s.t.
5		s.t.
6		s.t.
7	Team Hitec Products	s.t.
8		s.t.
9		s.t.
10		+ 30"

General Classification after Stage 6

	Team	Time
1
2		+ 5"
3		+ 11"
4		+ 33"
5		+ 34"
6	Team Hitec Products	+ 1' 03"
7	Alé–Cipollini	+ 1' 05"
8		+ 1' 18"
9	Alé–Cipollini	+ 1' 25"
10		+ 1' 35"

Classification leadership

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Sprint classification	Young rider classification	Mountains classification	Combative rider
1	Ellen van Dijk	Ellen van Dijk	Ellen van Dijk	Ann-Sophie Duyck	Elisa Longo Borghini	Evelyn Stevens	Henriette Woering
2	Lisa Brennauer	Lisa Brennauer	Anouska Koster	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Willeke Knol
3	Marianne Vos	Sara Mustonen	Valentina Scandolara
4	Kelly Druyts	Evelyn Stevens	Valentina Scandolara	Alison Tetrick
5	Jolien D'Hoore	Jolien D'Hoore	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Ilona Hoeksma
6	Emma Johansson	Lisa Brennauer	Roxane Knetemann
Final Classification		Evelyn Stevens	Lisa Brennauer	Sara Mustonen	Elisa Longo Borghini	Katarzyna Niewiadoma

Notes and References

Web site: Boels Ladies Tour (2.1). Procyclingstats.com. 1 September 2013.
Web site: Boels Rental Ladies Tour 2014 (2.1). women.cyclingfever.com. 4 September 2013.
News: Van Dijk een blije eerste leidster Ladies Tour. cyclingonline.nl. 2 September 2014. 4 September 2014. Dutch.
Web site: Boels Rental Ladies Tour; etappewinst in tijdrit!. ellenvandijk.nl. 4 September 2013. Dutch. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235608/http://www.ellenvandijk.nl/nl/ct-menu-item-4/augustus/176-boels-rental-ladies-tour. dead.
News: Brennauer wint tweede rit Ladies Tour. cyclingonline.nl. 4 September 2014. 3 September 2014. Dutch.