Jolien D'hoore scored her second win in nine days and her fifth of the season on Tuesday at the Boels Rentals Ladies Tour, where the 25-year-old Belgian is racing in preparation for the UCI Road World Championships later this month.
D'hoore now leads the six-day race heading into Wednesday's 103.9km second stage in Tiel.
The race is D'hoore's first since her win in the Crescent Vårgårda World Cup last month in Sweden, where she took the World Cup lead but then decided to sit out the final round on Saturday in Plouay, France, choosing instead to focus on her World Championship preparation at home in Belgium.
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"In the end I think it was a good decision," she said. "I did some good training last week, and it was the last week I could do it, so I took advantage of it. Then I'm going to use this week again, as some good training in the races, and that should be perfect preparation for Richmond I hope.
"Dutch racing is never easy," D'hoore said of Tuesday's stage. "You always have to be focused and concentrated the whole race because of crashes and everything. But it was okay, it was a good day to start with."
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